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I don't want a one-state solution. But I certainly don't want a zero-state solution, a no-state solution, where Israel's very existence would be jeopardized. And that's what the people of Israel overwhelmingly elected me to do.

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Benjamin Netanyahu
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 21
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