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The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

Benjamin Netanyahu

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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Battle War Weapon Winning
I don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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Country Determination Thinking
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
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
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Bond Country Powerful United Staes
Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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Country Friendship Stronger Weather
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Again History Popular Right Shown
I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.
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Been More Right Wrong
I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.
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Clear General Voice World
The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.
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Palestinian Sabotage Wanted
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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Peace Purchased Retreat Weakness
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
The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, “Look, here’s what I’m doing.
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Country Decide Force Military
Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.
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Country Fire Population Tunnel
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.
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Abandon Democracy Destroy Enemy Ideas
While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines…
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Compromise Country Lines
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.
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Grief September Speak
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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Citizen Country Independent Subject
And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.” And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
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Country East Middle People Represent Thank
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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Army Avoid Incidental War
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Leader Ought Reality See
The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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Defended Endure Only Peace
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
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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Engagement Faces Government
I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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Country Differences President
When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims — national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument.
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Civilization Impact Objection War
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
In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.
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Agreement Government Real

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