If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWe 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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This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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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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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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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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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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I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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I think they’re timid, they’re afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they’re afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don’t take that necessary plunge.
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We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.
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The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
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Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
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Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
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If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more 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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