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I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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Chance Military Threat
In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible.
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Bible Kings Office Ring Wall Years
Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. … They’re the enemies of peace, they’re the enemies of Israel, they’re the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they’re the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.
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Believe Country Enemies Important People Saving
The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
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Causes Country Palestinian Result
The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
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Army Clear Enemy Making Nuclear Program
They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don’t give freedom of religion.
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Country Deny Freedom Religion Rights
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Leader Ought Reality See
I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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Country Differences President
I’m a proud member of the rabble.
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Members Proud Rabble
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
Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.
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Country Target Terrorist Weapon
Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
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International Light Moral Right
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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Dismantle Rockets Tunnel Want
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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Country Football Political
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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Country Czech International Republic
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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Leader Palestinian Peace Want
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
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
If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
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Agreement Country Negotiation Sides
I’m not consumed with political machinations.
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Consumed Machination Political
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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Country Fire Population Tunnel
Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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Country Enormous Minister Previously Prime
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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Country Europe Past Years
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
If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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Country Let Normal Treated
I don’t think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.
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Accept Country Major Thinking
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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