The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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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.
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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.
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If terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.
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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
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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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I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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I don’t want a one-state solution. But I certainly don’t want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel’s very existence would be jeopardized. And that’s what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.
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If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants.
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We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
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As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
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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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I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
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Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy.
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