Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWe stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.
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Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.
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I don’t think you can rely on Iran. I don’t think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington.
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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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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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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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The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
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The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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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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Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
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