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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
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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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But so far, you know who’s been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel’s destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
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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’m the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.
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Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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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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The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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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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In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation…I hereby declare my candidacy.
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I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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