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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI don’t think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
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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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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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The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.
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There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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Israel is very much endangering.
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Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend 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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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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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
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I don’t want a one-state solution. But I certainly don’t want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel’s very existence would be jeopardized. And that’s what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.
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The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
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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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