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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

Benjamin Netanyahu

There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe’s past.
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Country Europe Past Years
If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
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Agreement Country Palestinian
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Country Ends Negotiation
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.
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Civilization Impact Objection War
90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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Block Cluster Country Percent
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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Country Free Party
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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Country Promise Rights Terror Wipe
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.
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Country Moving People Years
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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Cabinets Country Want Way
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.
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Country Fire Population Tunnel
When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!
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Enemy Last Sacrifice Vampire Academy
If terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.
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Certainty Citizen Country Other Percent Population
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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Country Dictatorship Middle Real Thinking
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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Addresses Country Needs Opportunity
The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
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Always Country Partnership Will
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.
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Abandon Democracy Destroy Enemy Ideas

But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

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