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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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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If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.
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Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.
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I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.
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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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[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.
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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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I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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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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The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football
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In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.
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We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
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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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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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Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
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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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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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If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.
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I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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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 the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel’
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The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn’t work.
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Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.
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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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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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