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We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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

Citizen Country Minister Proud
I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.
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Come Counter Efort Intended Out Something Toppel Voters
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
I’m a proud member of the rabble.
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Members Proud Rabble
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.
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Abandon Democracy Destroy Enemy Ideas
I’m not naturally manipulative.
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Country Manipulative Naturally
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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Peace Purchased Retreat Weakness
Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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Country Enormous Minister Previously Prime
I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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Country Peace Strong Thinking
But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Enemy Faces Over People
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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Country Hands Murder Praying
No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him — until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.
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Complain Deliver Grievance Hand Redressing Satisfy
I’m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that – in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That’s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn’t trying to suppress a vote.
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Country Free Party
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 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
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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Eternal Used Vigilance Virtue
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
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Again History Popular Right Shown
Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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Country Target Terrorist Weapon
[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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Country Decision Partisanship Thinking
The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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Country Force Military Violence
The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
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Border Real Reason
They’re in the red zone. They’re in the last 20 yards, and you can’t let them cross that goal line. You can’t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.
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Country Goal Last Red Yard Zone
If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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Country Let Normal Treated
While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines…
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Compromise Country Lines
If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
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Agreement Country Palestinian
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Humanity Nuclear Weapons

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