I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUFirst 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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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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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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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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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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I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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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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I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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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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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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Israel 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.
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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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Populism is dangerous.
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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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