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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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.
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Country Dictatorship Middle Real Thinking
Israel is very much endangering.
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Country Endangering Much Very
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
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Jewish Life Simple States
Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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Country Enormous Minister Previously Prime
You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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Country Going Known Politics
There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe’s past.
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Country Europe Past Years
There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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Appreciate Country Support
They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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Assembly Country General Negotiation Peace State
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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Commitment Country Past Years
The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
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Border Real Reason
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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Ideas Imposing Peace
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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Children Country Rocket Teenagerm People
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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Election Poll Winning
I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.
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Agreement River Thinking
I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that circumstances have to change.
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Change Country Peaceful Two
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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Eternal Used Vigilance Virtue
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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Agreement Country Negotiation Sides
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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Demilitarized States Two Want
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Country Ends Negotiation
The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel’s side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.
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Country People World
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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Killer Physical Sake Sometimes Think Timid
There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.
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Call Irreplaceable United States
I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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Country States Thinking Two
American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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Country Leader Security Survival Worry
The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
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Army Clear Enemy Making Nuclear Program
Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There’s no question about that.
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People States Trump Warmly
I’m not naturally manipulative.
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Country Manipulative Naturally

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