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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUDonald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There’s no question about that.
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I don’t want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven’t retracted my position; I haven’t changed it.
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I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.
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[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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Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
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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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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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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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I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror – the tunnel – the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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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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A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.
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