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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUAnd I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
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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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If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
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Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.
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The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football
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Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
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The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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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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The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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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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Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.
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Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy.
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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 rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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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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