If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUIf we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
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I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror – the tunnel – the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.
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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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Populism is dangerous.
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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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Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They’re trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it.
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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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The real reason we haven’t had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.
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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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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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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 people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.
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You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.
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Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
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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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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
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I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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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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The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
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They’re trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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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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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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Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
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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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