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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.

Benjamin Netanyahu

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Country Stories Trying Zero
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.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Army Clear Enemy Making Nuclear Program
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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Acquisition Imagine Nuclear Weapon
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 instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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Causes Country Palestinian Result
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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Congo Country Else India Land People Somebody
The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
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Country Palestinian People
We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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Country Negotiation Pistols Way
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Grief September Speak
In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation…I hereby declare my candidacy.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Children Citizen Establish Mother Strong
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Chance Military Threat
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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Block Cluster Country Percent
I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Citizen Country Independent Subject
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
We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.
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Country Outpost Population Remove
I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Been More Right Wrong

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