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 NETANYAHUI 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.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.
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The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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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 Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That’s like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we’re called ‘Jews’? Because we come from Judea.
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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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I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’
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If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
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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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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 want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There’s a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel’s law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.
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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’m not consumed with political machinations.
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