I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThey’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.
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Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change.
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The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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I don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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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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To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
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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’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.
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If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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