The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe 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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We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
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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 people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!
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Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.
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Israel is very much endangering.
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What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
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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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Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.
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There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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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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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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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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