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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.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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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I’m a proud member of the rabble.
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Members Proud Rabble
There is an irreplaceable ally. It’s called the United States of America.
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Call Irreplaceable United States
I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.
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Citizen Country Minister Proud
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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Come Counter Efort Intended Out Something Toppel Voters
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
But … the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.
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Enemy Faces Over People
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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I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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Country Peace Strong Thinking
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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Country Moving Thinking
I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands,
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Country Hands Law Responsible
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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Agreement River Thinking
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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Country Democracy Organization Shield
Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They’re branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head.
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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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Country Ends Negotiation
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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Country Hands Murder Praying
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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Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer.
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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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Civilian Defense Missiles Protect
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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Demilitarized States Two Want
The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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Humanity Nuclear Weapons
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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I’m not naturally manipulative.
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The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.
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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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My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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