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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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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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The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.
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We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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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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Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.
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I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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You don’t have people chanting ‘Death to America’ in Israel.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football
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Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They’re branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head.
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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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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.
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You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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