Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIsraelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
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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.
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The 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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They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
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I don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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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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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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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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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 idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.
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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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