Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
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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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If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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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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The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, “Look, here’s what I’m doing.
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If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
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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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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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I’m not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we’ll stop it.
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Intelligence is a critical thing.
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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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Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
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I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.
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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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