If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThey deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWhy 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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUAnyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe 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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUHamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They’re branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUAnd by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIsrael 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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUYou know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They’re trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it.
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