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I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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 NETANYAHU

Eternal Used Vigilance Virtue
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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Country Irrationality Madness Method Thinking
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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Country Down Violence Weapon
I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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Responsibility Speak Thinking
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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Independent Order People
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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Opposites Simple Talking
So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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Country Dictatorship Middle Real Thinking
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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Agreement Country Negotiation Sides
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims — national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument.
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Civilization Impact Objection War
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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Killer Physical Sake Sometimes Think Timid
This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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Alone Counry Minister Promise
You don’t have people chanting ‘Death to America’ in Israel.
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Country Death People
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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Country Stories Trying Zero
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.
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Attention Country Demonstration Repression
But so far, you know who’s been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel’s destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
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Country Destruction Night Nonproliferation
Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.
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Country Families Immigrants Integration Making
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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Block Cluster Country Percent
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.
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Country Moving People Years
The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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Commitment Country Past Years
The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
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About Brought Thing Together
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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Capital Country First Wrong
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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Commitment Country Law
If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.
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Change Country World Signed
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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Citizen Country Independent Subject
They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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Assembly Country General Negotiation Peace State
I don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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Country Determination Thinking
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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Army Clear Enemy Making Nuclear Program

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