When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims — national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThere is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
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I think they’re timid, they’re afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they’re afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don’t take that necessary plunge.
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If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
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I’m not naturally manipulative.
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I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.
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The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.
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If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.
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We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
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So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else’s land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.
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I don’t want a one-state solution. But I certainly don’t want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel’s very existence would be jeopardized. And that’s what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.
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[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football
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I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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Israel is very much endangering.
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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Populism is dangerous.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They’re trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it.
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I’m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that – in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That’s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn’t trying to suppress a vote.
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The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, “Look, here’s what I’m doing.
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A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
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Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
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In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.
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