Top 100 Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes
#1. History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
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#2. Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.
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#3. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
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#4. 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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#6. 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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#7. I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. 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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#8. My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.
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#9. Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
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#11. But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over.
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#12. If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.
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#13. The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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#14. Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
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#15. We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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#17. To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war,
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#18. 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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#21. We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor
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#22. I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
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#23. But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
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#24. I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.
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#25. There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#30. The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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#31. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.
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#32. They're in the red zone. They're in the last 20 yards, and you can't let them cross that goal line. You can't let them score a touchdown, because that would have unbelievable consequences, grievous consequences for the peace and security of us all, of the world really.
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#33. We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.
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#34. Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.
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#35. 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. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.
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#36. I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.
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#37. To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.
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#38. I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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#39. You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.
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#40. Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.
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#41. If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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#44. [S]aving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
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#45. No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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#49. This 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
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#54. If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
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#55. 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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#56. The entire world is focusing on the compromises that are necessary from Israel's side. But people [in the world] are not focusing on the fact that the Palestinians refuse to make the necessary compromises that are required on their side for peace.
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#57. 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 radical Islam.
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#58. [The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship
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#60. The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.
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#61. Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
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#63. There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
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#64. If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, they should at the very least be prepared to insist that Iran changes its behavior before the deal expires.
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#65. We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.
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#66. I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
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#67. We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.
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#69. We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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#70. 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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#71. I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.
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#72. I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change.
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#73. So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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#75. Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.
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#76. Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us.
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#77. 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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#78. 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 that.
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#80. Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
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#82. Israel has no better friend that America. And America has not better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.
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#83. 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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#85. It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
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#86. There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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#87. 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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#88. Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
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#89. 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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#90. The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#94. The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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#95. Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
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#96. The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
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#98. I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
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#99. The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
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