They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUWhen 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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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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Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
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The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.
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Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
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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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The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.
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What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren’t stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
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American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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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.
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I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.
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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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