Benjamin Netanyahu Best Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended,

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#4. I'm a proud member of the rabble.

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#5. 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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#6. To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war,

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#7. The State of Israel can be proud of what we're doing.

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#8. If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.

Thomas Sowell

#9. We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

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#10. Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

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#11. 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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#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. But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies - those days are over.

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#14. If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

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#15. The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

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#16. History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

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#17. Don't be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn't turn Iran into a friend of America.

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#18. My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

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#19. There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.

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#20. 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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#21. Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

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#22. 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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#23. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

Stephen Kinzer

#24. You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

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#25. 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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#26. 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 for the Likud party leadership and premiership of Israel.

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#27. The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

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