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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
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Importance Leader Needs
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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Down Israel Pyramids Top
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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Addresses Country Needs Opportunity
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
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
Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That’s Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Country Make Organization Peace President
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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Attention Country Demonstration Repression
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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Peace Purchased Retreat Weakness
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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Country Promise Rights Terror Wipe
The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will
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Always Country Partnership Will
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 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 can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.
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Country Moving People Years
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
We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.
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Country Outpost Population Remove
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.
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Leader Ought Reality See
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
Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.
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Country Developing Regime
No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him — until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.
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Complain Deliver Grievance Hand Redressing Satisfy
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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Cabinets Country Want Way
I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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Attitude Country Thinking
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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Arm Country More War
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
90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks.
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Block Cluster Country Percent
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
I think it’s my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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Responsibility Speak Thinking
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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Country Irrationality Madness Method Thinking

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

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