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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, “Look, here’s what I’m doing.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Country Decide Force Military
You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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Country Going Known Politics
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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Capital Country First Wrong
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
Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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Country Enormous Minister Previously Prime
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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Acquisition Imagine Nuclear Weapon
American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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Country Leader Security Survival Worry
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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Country Democracy Organization Shield
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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Demilitarized States Two Want
Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security. You couldn’t make this thing up.
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Hezbollah Mean Organization
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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Cabinets Country Want Way
If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
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Country Divide Law Sentence War Weapon
You don’t have people chanting ‘Death to America’ in Israel.
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Country Death People
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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Abandon Democracy Destroy Enemy Ideas
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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Battle War Weapon Winning
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

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