A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThe 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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And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike.
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I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’
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We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can’t send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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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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I’m not naturally manipulative.
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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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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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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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Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.
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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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The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
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I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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They’re in the red zone. They’re in the last 20 yards, and you can’t let them cross that goal line. You can’t let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.
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There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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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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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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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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Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.
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I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, “Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let ‘s just sit down and begin to talk peace.”
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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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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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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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