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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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
The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
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Border Real Reason
There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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Appreciate Country Support
But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Enemy Faces Over People
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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Congo Country Else India Land People Somebody
The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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Defended Endure Only Peace
We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Country Negotiation Pistols Way
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
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Arm Country More War
Populism is dangerous.
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Country Dangerous Populism
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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Country Democracy Organization Shield
We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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Anyone Attack Citizens Harm Trying
The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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Country Force Military Violence
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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Eternal Used Vigilance Virtue
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
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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Country Make Organization Peace President
The Palestinian society is split into two – those who are openly calling for Israel’s destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel’s destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that’s the Palestinian authority.
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Call Country Openly Palestinian Society

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