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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Benjamin Netanyahu

So 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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Congo Country Else India Land People Somebody
We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Country Negotiation Pistols Way
If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
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Agreement Country Palestinian
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Country Ends Negotiation
I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.
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Country Humanity Nation Sought Terrorism
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
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Country Hands Murder Praying
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
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
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
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims — national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument.
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Civilization Impact Objection War
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
I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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Attitude Country Thinking
[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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Country Decision Partisanship Thinking
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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Peace Purchased Retreat Weakness
They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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Country Deny Freedom Religion Rights

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