I don’t know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWhile Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines…
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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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We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.
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I’m not consumed with political machinations.
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I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
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Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security. You couldn’t make this thing up.
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If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’
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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel’s side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.
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Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.
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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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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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We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
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The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
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