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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

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Abandon

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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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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Leader Palestinian
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Destruction Nonproliferation
The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

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The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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Military
In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.
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Bible Kings Years
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.
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Killer Sake Sometimes Think Timid
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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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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Agreement Negotiation Sides
I don’t know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
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Incidental
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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Chance Military Threat
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Ends Negotiation
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 Simple States
I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

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I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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They’re in the red zone. They’re in the last 20 yards, and you can’t let them cross that goal line. You can’t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.
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Goal Last Red Yard Zone
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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Demonstration Repression
But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Faces Over
I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.
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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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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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Greatest

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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