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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

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
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Country Moving Thinking
Donald 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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People States Trump Warmly
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel’‎
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Country Down Violence Weapon
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
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Country Place Thank You
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 diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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Chance Military Threat
90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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Block Cluster Country Percent
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
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Country Czech International Republic
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
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
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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Country Fire Population Tunnel
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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Country Families Immigrants Integration Making
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.
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Country Moving People Years
Populism is dangerous.
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Country Dangerous Populism
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
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Arm Country More War
Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.
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Battle Country Friend
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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Causes Country Palestinian Result
I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
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Been More Right Wrong
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
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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Humanity Nuclear Weapons
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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Country Outpost Population Remove
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Leader Ought Reality See
The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.
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Aggression Country End Growth Occupation
The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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Commitment Country Past Years
Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.
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Conceptual Country Other Produce
If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.
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Change Country World Signed

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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