Benjamin Netanyahu Quotations | Page 2

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, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

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.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change.

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

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.’

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.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended,

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

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. 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.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

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

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.

[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

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

I`m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That`s sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn`t trying to suppress a vote. 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.

I`m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel`s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. They're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. They're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

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.

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.

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, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.

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.

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

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.

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. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

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.

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.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

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.

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.

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.

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

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.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran's terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens

Populism is dangerous.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.

Israel is very much endangering.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalize their own people, don't give freedom of religion.

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

The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again,

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.

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.

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

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

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.

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.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. 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.

With the Palestinians, I think we have started to move closer, also on the issue of reciprocity,

disagreements around the dinner table in a family.

The time has come to build here and I will build here.

The supreme asset is our security, those things that are sacred to us, like Jerusalem.

The ones who really understand what I am saying are the terrorists, and they are cheering because we are letting them set up an independent terrorist base (in Gaza),

The moment of truth has come. I cannot sanction a decision which threatens state security,

One cannot go on with business as usual after such a massacre,

process that ignores reality and proceeds blindly, creating a base for Islamic terror that will threaten the state.

This government was elected to advance the peace process and achieve real peace, peace with reciprocity,

This is disputed land, not Palestinian, or we claim public ownership.

In his speech Sharon has finally clarified that he is turning to the Left and will continue to make concessions.

The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don't short-change Israel, either. Don't short-change them.

In the past, I proved my ability to conduct forceful negotiations with the Palestinians. I laid down a principle which is known to you all -- the principle of reciprocity. They give, they get. If they don't give, they won't get.

It's time you stop running away from the voters. These are the voters who elected you, who sent you. Stand before them. Present your policies, defend your policies, like I have presented my policies here and let them decide and respect their decision.

We lost by a very few votes. There is a very large camp that went against the flow, against the wind, against the pressure, against the leadership and against the temptations,

We expect not really words of consolation from the Palestinian Authority and from its leader. What we expect is action. We expect action to apprehend these terrorists and their leaders. We expect action to collect the explosives and weapons that are there in the field and can be collected.

It's a complete fabrication to link this to any harm to any Islamic sites,

I cannot be part of this irresponsible move that divides the people and harms Israel's security and will in the future pose a danger for the wholeness of Jerusalem, ... A unilateral withdrawal without anything in return is not the way.

I come out of these meetings with renewed confidence in our ability to progress on that road.

I don't see a collapse of America's involvement.

For them to threaten us ... to cancel the (economic) conference is like a man who cuts off his nose to spite his face,

The Lebanese government certainly has the military capability to deploy in the south and to take the necessary steps,

The disengagement plan will be implemented as planned,