The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHUThis is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
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If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.
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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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I’m not consumed with political machinations.
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If 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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Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!
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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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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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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you see right now in the Middle East.
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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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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 only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
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Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe’s past.
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Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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Populism is dangerous.
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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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In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation…I hereby declare my candidacy.
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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 don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters.
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We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.
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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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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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