Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes
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.
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
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'
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 what I just said.
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.
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.
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.
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.
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.
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.
If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.
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.
Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.
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.
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.
Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.
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.
May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America.
Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.
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.
I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.
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.
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 the radical Islam against Israel.
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There's no question about that.
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.
