Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

I tell Arab leaders: if you want to protect your interests, you must do one thing - remain silent! The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will 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 [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 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. 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. 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. Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons. 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. 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. 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. American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. The enemy of your enemy is your enemy! We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles. The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended, 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. [S]aving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent. May God bless the state of Israel and may God bless the United States of America. Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. 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. I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction. The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work. You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it. 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. While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines. We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers. ...but I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel. 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. 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.