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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.

Benjamin Netanyahu

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Country Leader Security Survival Worry
I’m not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we’ll stop it.
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Attack Country Intervening Stop Tries
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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Killer Physical Sake Sometimes Think Timid
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
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
I don’t want a one-state solution. But I certainly don’t want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel’s very existence would be jeopardized. And that’s what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.
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Country People Zero
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
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Jewish Life Simple States
Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Country Make Organization Peace President
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
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Country Ends Negotiation
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 think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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Country States Thinking Two
Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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Importance Leader Needs
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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Addresses Country Needs Opportunity
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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Election Poll Winning
If 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.
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Fire Greatest Tactics Victory

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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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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