Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.
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Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.
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Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.
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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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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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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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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, “Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let ‘s just sit down and begin to talk peace.”
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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.
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I’m a proud member of the rabble.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.
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Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.
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I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror – the tunnel – the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.
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