Populism is dangerous.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.
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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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I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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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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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
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I’m not naturally manipulative.
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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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But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
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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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We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.
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The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
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There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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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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Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
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And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
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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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I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There’s a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel’s law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.
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Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.
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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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In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.
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I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.
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Israel is very much endangering.
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