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

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Benjamin Netanyahu
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 21
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As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
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I don't want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven't retracted my position I haven't changed it.
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Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.
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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.
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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 Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
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I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.
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The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
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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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We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.
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The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
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I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel's law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.
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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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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.
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We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
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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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I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.
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I'm not consumed with political machinations.
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There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.
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