The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUI’m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that – in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That’s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn’t trying to suppress a vote.
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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 anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
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If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
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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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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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Israel is very much endangering.
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90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
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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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I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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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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If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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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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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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