So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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I don’t know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
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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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[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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Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.
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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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The 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 know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.
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To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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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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