History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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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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We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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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 had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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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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If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
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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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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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I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror – the tunnel – the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.
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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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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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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
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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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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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