Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUSo 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 think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
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They’re in the red zone. They’re in the last 20 yards, and you can’t let them cross that goal line. You can’t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.
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So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There’s no question about that.
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Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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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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The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
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I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.
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You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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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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In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.
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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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Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.
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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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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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