Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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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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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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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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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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I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington.
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The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
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There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.
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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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Israel is very much endangering.
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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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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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