You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUSo for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else’s land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.
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I don’t think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
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I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.
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There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe’s past.
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If terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.
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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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I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
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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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We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy.
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The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it’s the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
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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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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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