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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and the current Prime Minister of Israel.

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Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

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This is a bad deal — a very bad deal. We’re better off without it.

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We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

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...but I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

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We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

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Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews, and Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.' -- 'So what should I do with them?' Hitler asked the mufti, who responded: 'Burn them.'.

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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.

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The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

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Our supreme interests, chiefly the security and unity of Jerusalem, are not the main concern of those anonymous officials who attack us and me personally, as the assault on me comes only because I defend the State of Israel

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

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We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

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The ICC only has jurisdiction over petitions submitted by sovereign states. But there has never been a Palestinian state.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 month ago World

In order to prevent this happening again, there is only one thing we must do: win and win big.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 1 month ago World

They weren't after the truth, they were after me.

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Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I have made clear that whoever hurts us, we will hurt him, this is what we did overnight vis-a-vis military targets of the Iranian Al Quds force and Syrian military targets in Syria after a barrage of rockets was launched at Israel.

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Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

This is what we did overnight vis-a-vis military targets of the Iranian Al Quds force and Syrian military targets in Syria after a barrage of rockets was launched at Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

I admit that I am very moved, the Trump administration has corrected a historic injustice.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

The Trump administration has corrected a historic injustice.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

Today, the United States adopted an important policy that rights a historical wrong when the Trump administration clearly rejected the false claim that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are inherently illegal under international law.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I said yesterday that we are not bent on escalation, but that we would respond to every attack against us, and respond very sharply. Islamic Jihad would do well to understand this right now, instead of when Islamic Jihad will be too late. I believe that Islamic Jihad is starting to internalize this message. They understand that we will continue to strike them without mercy. They understand that Israel is very strong and that our will is very great.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

We don't want escalation, but we are responding to every attack against us with a very sharp attack and response. Islamic Jihad best understand that now rather than when Islamic Jihad's too late for Islamic Jihad.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

Israel is not interested in escalation, but we will do everything required to protect ourselves, this could take time. What is needed is stamina and cool-headedness.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

But to my regret, the election results show that this is impossible, benny, we must set up a broad unity government, as soon as today. The nation expects us, both of us, to demonstrate responsibility and that we pursue cooperation.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

There can not be a government( in Israel) that is supported by anti-Zionist Arab parties that do not believe in Israel as a Jewish democratic state, in the next few days we will get into negotiations to establish a Zionist government to prevent the formation of a dangerous anti-Zionist government.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 months ago World

I'm going to get us a defense pact that will provide us with security for centuries but for that I need your votes.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Top News

We are operating - not just if needed, we are operating in many areas against a state that wants to annihilate us. Of course I gave the security forces a free hand and instructed them to do anything necessary to thwart Iran's plans.

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Found on Reuters 4 months ago World

But I think we have to take the risk, and it's a considerable risk, of regulating less in order to grow more.

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Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

The plan of the two Congresswomen is only to damage Israel and to foment against Israel.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

We'll hear the American proposition, hear it fairly and with openness.

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Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

We'll hear the American proposition, hear it fairly and with openness. And I can not understand how the Palestinians, before they even heard the plan, reject it outright, under any peace agreement our position will be that Israel's presence should continue here, for Israel's security and for the security of all.

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Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

Under any peace agreement our position will be that Israel's presence should continue here, for Israel's security and for the security of all.

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Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

You know, we had a little event last night. That's not going to stop us. We're going to continue working together, we had a great, productive meeting, which reaffirms that the alliance between the United States of America has never been stronger, and it's going to get even stronger.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

Jared Kushner brought me the updated map that includes Golan Heights within Israeli sovereignty -- here is the signature of President Trump and he writes here' Nice,'.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

As of this moment, this (containment) is being done in the best possible way, but the challenge is yet ahead of us given the weather conditions, the winds and the extreme heat.

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Found on Reuters 8 months ago Environment

This morning, on my way here, I heard that Iran intends to pursue its nuclear program, we will not allow Iran to achieve nuclear weaponry. We will continue to fight those who would kill us.

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Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

We will try again, we reached the Moon, but we want to land more comfortably, and that is for the next time.

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Found on FOX News 9 months ago Science

If at first Opher Doron dont succeed, try try again.

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Found on FOX News 9 months ago World

The right-wing bloc led by the Likud won a clear victory. I thank the citizens of Israel for the trust. I will start forming a right-wing government with our natural partners as soon as tonight.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

It's not going to happen.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

I thought at first it was an April fool's joke, they are not prepared to accept that you, citizens of Israel, support me.

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Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

I can tell you, we are prepared to do a lot more.

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Found on FOX News 9 months ago World

Its because America and Israel share a love of freedom and democracy. Its because we cherish individual rights and the rule of law.

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Found on FOX News 9 months ago Politics

Israel will not tolerate this. I will not tolerate this, and as we speak... Israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression.

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Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

We have a miracle of Purim.

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Found on FOX News 10 months ago U.S.

Relations with the United States have never been this strong.

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Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

I suggest to Hamas, dont count on it, we will do anything necessary to restore security and quiet to the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip and to the south in general.

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Found on FOX News 10 months ago World

The Golan is part of Israel ; The Golan must stay part of Israel forever. I think it's very important that the international community recognize this fact and accept it, and most especially, our great friend the United States.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

The left understands that they will not beat me at the ballot box, they exerted extraordinary pressure on the attorney general to issue an indictment even though there is nothing, in order to influence the elections and to crown a left-wing government.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

We have a permanent policy, to strike at the Iranian entrenchment in Syria and hurt whoever tries to hurt us.

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Found on Reuters 12 months ago World

We have operated with impressive success in thwarting Iran from establishing a military foothold in Syria, in the framework of which the military has struck hundreds of times against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, in the last 36 hours alone, the air force struck storage facilities with Iranian weapons at the Damascus International Airport. The bulk of recent attacks show how we are more committed than ever to act against Iran in Syria, as we promised.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

What happened in the Istanbul consulate was horrendous and it should be duly dealt with. Yet at the same time, it is very important for the stability of the world -- for the region and for the world -- that Saudi Arabia remain stable.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We engraved in the stone of law our language, our anthem, and our flag. We have enshrined the fact that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, long live the State of Israel !

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

After consultations with the defense minister, the chief of staff and Israel's top defense officials, we decided on powerful action against Hamas terrorism, the Israeli armed forces delivered the strongest blow against Hamas since (the 2014 Gaza war) and we will increase the intensity of our attacks as necessary.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The heart of the matter is retaining our freedom of action against anyone who acts against us, and the removal of the Iranians from Syrian territory.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

We will discuss Syria, we will discuss Iran, we will discuss Israel's security needs, i very much appreciate the direct, unmediated and excellent contact that I have with the Russian president.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

It’s not a coincidence that Guatemala is opening its embassy in Jerusalem right among the first, you were always among the first. You were the second country to recognize Israel.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The question came up of how to solve the humanitarian situation in Gaza without strengthening Hamas, these things are clear - one, how do we maintain security, and two, how to prevent a wider escalation - if this is at all possible.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

These things are clear - one, how do we maintain security, and two, how to prevent a wider escalation - if this is at all possible.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We will take action - and are already taking action - against efforts to establish a militarily presence by Iran and its proxies in Syria both close to the border and deep inside Syria. We will act against these efforts anywhere in Syria.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

First of all, Iran must clear out of all of Syria, secondly, we will take action, and are already taking action, against the attempted military entrenchment of Iran and its proxies, both close to the border and deep within Syria.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

That is a recipe for a re-inflammation of another civil war - I should say a theological war, a religious war - and the sparks of that could be millions more that go into Europe and so on ... And that would cause endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries, obviously we are not going to let them do it. We'll fight them. By preventing that - and we have bombed the bases of this, these Shi'ite militias - by preventing that, we are also offering, helping the security of your countries, the security of the world.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

I didn't ask France to withdraw from the JCPOA (Iran deal) because I think it is basically going to be dissolved by the weight of economic forces, if you have a bad deal you don't have to stick to it especially if you see that Iran is conquering one country after another and you cannot divorce this from Iran's aggression in the (Middle East) region.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

Two days ago, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's leader, declared that his intention is to destroy the State of Israel. Yesterday, he said how he would do this, by unlimited enrichment in order to produce an arsenal of nuclear bombs, we are not surprised, we will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

We are not surprised, we will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

When they test us they pay immediately and if they continue to test us then they will pay far more.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I reckon there is great ripeness and a high probability this will happen.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

(good morning), The Times of Israel added. These days, Jerusalem is blessed with many gifts, we received another one yesterday evening, with Netta’s suspenseful and shining victory. The gift was that Eurovision will be coming to Jerusalem next year, and we are proud to be hosting it.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

The Palestinians're pushing civilians – women, children – into the line of fire with a view of getting casualties. We try to minimize casualties. The Palestinians're trying to incur casualties in order to put pressure on Israel, which is horrible.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

What an amazing day ! Thank Jeff Merkley, @POTUS Trump.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

What a glorious day for Israel, we are in Jerusalem and we are here to stay.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Israel prepared enthusiastically Sunday for the formal embassy opening with a gala party at its Foreign Ministry that included Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other U.S. officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told revelers that Trump's December declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital was the right thing to do. Thank President Trump, President Trump, for your bold decision. Thank you for making the alliance between Israel and The United States stronger than ever.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said. Israel prepared enthusiastically Sunday for the formal embassy opening with a gala party at its Foreign Ministry that included President Trump daughter, Jared Kushner and other U.S. officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told revelers that Trump's December declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital was the right thing to do. Thank you, President President Trump, for your bold decision. Thank you for making the alliance between Israel and the United States stronger than ever.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

Mnuchin said. Israel gets ready to open the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. ( AP) The treasury secretary’s comments come amid celebration and mass protests in Israel and Gaza leading up to Monday’s festivities. Israel prepared enthusiastically Sunday for the formal embassy opening with a gala party at its Foreign Ministry that included President Trump’s daughter Ivanka, President Trump daughter Ivanka husband Jared Kushner, and other U.S. officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told revelers that Trump's December declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital was the right thing to do. Thank you, President President Trump, for your bold decision. Thank you for making the alliance between Israel and the United States stronger than ever.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Move your embassies to Jerusalem because it's the right thing to do, move your embassies to Jerusalem because it advances peace, and that's because you can't base peace on a foundation of lies.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Whoever hits us will get hit seven times over. Whoever prepares themselves to attack us will be attacked first. That is what we have done and that is what we will continue doing.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We are in the midst of a protracted battle and our policy is clear: We will not allow Iran to entrench itself militarily in Syria.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

I think that matters were presented in a direct and forthright manner, and this is important, these matters are very important to Israel's security at all times and especially at this time.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

Given what is happening in Syria at this very moment, there is a need to ensure the continuation of military coordination between the Russian military and the Putin Israel Defense Forces.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

For months now, Iran has been transferring lethal weaponry to its forces in Syria, with the purpose of striking at Israel, we will respond mightily to any attack on our territory.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

I said it from the start -- it has to be either fully fixed or fully nixed, but if you do nothing to this deal, if you keep it as is, you will end up with Iran with a nuclear arsenal in a very short time.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

We are determined to block the Iranian aggression against us at its earliest stages, even if it takes a struggle.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Would love to have him here. It's his decision. He's got an open invitation.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

When we got this trove of 100,000 documents, we learned so many things we didn't know. We're still learning them, we learned an enormous amount about Iran's secret nuclear program. Now, the deal that everybody is talking about was premised on the fact that Iran had no such material. But Iran bothered, took enormous pains after the nuclear deal and before but especially after to hide this information. It's like an arsenal of knowledge.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

They don't want the world to know what I showed the world yesterday.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Nobody is seeking that kind of development.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

One thing is clear, Israel is not threatening the annihilation of any country.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think the greatest threat to the world and to our two countries, and to all countries, is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons, and specifically the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. We have had a very productive talk today on this subject.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Israel will not allow regimes that seek our annihilation to acquire nuclear weapons. This is why we opposed so resolutely the Iran deal, because it gives Iran a clear path to a nuclear arsenal.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

The law is baseless ; I strongly oppose it.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

Israel will not let that happen.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

The unfortunate thing is that as ISIS compresses and Iran moves in, it is trying to establish this continuous empire surrounding the Middle East from the south in Yemen but also trying to create a land bridge from Iran to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 1 year ago World

Israel is seeking for peace, but we will continue to defend ourselves against any attack against us, and against any attempt by Iran to establish military bases in Syria or anywhere else.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

There are those who have said the IDF just targeted sand dunes — this is incorrect, hamas must understand that we will not permit these attacks, and we will respond with even greater force.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the problem of the Palestinian refugees, it also perpetuates the narrative of the so-called ‘ right of return ’ with the aim of eliminating the State of Israel, and therefore UNRWA must disappear.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I‘m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

I hear [from Europe] voices of condemnation over President Trump’s historic announcement but I have not heard any condemnation for the rocket firing against Israel that has come [after the announcement] and the awful incitement against us.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

This decision reflects the president’s commitment to an ancient but enduring truth, the president’s decision is an important step toward peace, for there is no peace that doesn’t include Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

This visit will deepen cooperation in a wide range of fields - security, agriculture, water, energy - basically in almost every field Israel is involved in.

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Found on Reuters 2 years ago World

Ever wonder what fake news is? Last week, CNN, The New York Times and Al Jazeera reported that Hamas now accepts the Palestinian state along the 1967 lines. The New York Times headline called this ‘moderation,’ the intimation is that Hamas now accepts the state of Israel. This is a complete distortion of the truth. The new Hamas statement says Israel has no right to exist.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

The intimation is that Hamas now accepts the state of Israel. This is a complete distortion of the truth. The new Hamas statement says Israel has no right to exist.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

So, where does this hate-filled document belong?

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago World

We don't have double talk because what we say inside is what we say outside, and everybody holds us accountable, it's high time that that accountability was put on the Palestinians.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

The campaign that we oversee plays out daily, in complex arenas, under myriad threats that recur without respite. This requires us to be constantly prepared to fight in secret, anytime and anywhere necessary. The service is charged with this effort and there is no option, but to win this war every day, we, the personnel of the ISA, have a very significant responsibility in defending the State of Israel and its inhabitants, in thwarting and blocking terrorist threats and in upholding democracy. We will continue to do this our way – with courage, wisdom, determination, innovation, dedication, and relevancy.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Tech

It's a total 180, and to a certain degree, it's right.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

That's the moment when I think people started breathing a sigh of relief, in that sense, it's a return to normal.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Part of what's important in foreign policy is consistency and clarity in what you're communicating to your friends and enemies. Deploying unpredictabilty every now and then has value, but being seen by your allies as unreliable is dangerous. benjamin Netanyahu foreign policy used to be built on principles, the international trading order, international law, the security framework.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

If we are resolute in our policies, we can make sure that does n’t happen.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

The world must unite and fight terrorism everywhere.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago World

Whoever seeks to hit us – will be hit. Whoever threatens our existence – places himself in existential danger.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

All signs show he is a supporter of the Islamic State, we know there is a sequence of terror attacks, and it's quite possible that there is a connection between them, from France, Berlin and now Jerusalem.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 2 years ago World

When we identify attempts to transfer advanced weapons to Hezbollah and we have intelligence and it is operationally feasible, we act to prevent it, that's how it was yesterday and that's how we shall continue to act.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 2 years ago World

We held a consultation about the series of offensive and defensive measures that we will implement to act against the grave phenomenon of shootings. They certainly challenge us, but we will provide an answer.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The comparison that arose from the deputy chief of staff's comments on the processes that characterized Nazi Germany 80 years ago is outrageous, they wrong Israeli society and cheapen the Holocaust.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Whoever says we are not taking action is not telling the truth.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

We are not prepared to accept a situation where Knesset members support the families of those who murdered Israeli civilians and stand to attention to the memory of those who murdered our children.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

We live in a turbulent, fluid environment, we have an unprecedented opportunity to advance our common goals.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

We have an unprecedented opportunity to advance our common goals.

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Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Were it not for our efforts to spearhead the sanctions and foil Iran's nuclear program, Iran would have already had nuclear weapons long ago.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

This is important as part of the fixed policy between us and the United States, our ally, and also important in order to fend off the regional threats, chief of which is the Iranian threat, of course.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I gave my word that he was not a spy for Israel.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

What is driving this terrorism is opposition to Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, within any borders.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I'd like to talk to a progressive audience about progressive values, i think that Israel is at the very least misunderstood.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We've had our disagreements, particular over Iran, that's clear, but I think we have no disagreement now about what to do moving forward.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

With the savagery of ISIS, with the aggression in terror by Iran's proxies, and by Iran itself ... the combination of turbulence has now displaced millions of people, has butchered hundreds of thousands, and we don't know what will transpire.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Now we have to strengthen Israel. And I think that's the best guarantor of peace.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Industrials

Now we have to strengthen Israel. And I think that’s the best guarantor of peace.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Temple Mount will remain as is and will be managed as Temple Mount is now. Arrangements for visits by Jews to Temple Mount are safeguarded ; there will be no change in them, just as the prayer arrangements for the Muslims, israel has an interest in stationing cameras in all parts of Temple Mount. First, in order to disprove the claim that Israel is changing the status quo. Second, to show where the provocations really come from and to foil them before they ever happen.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago World

There is no question that wave of attacks is driven directly by incitement. Incitement from Hamas, incitement from the Islamist movement in Israel, and incitement, I am sorry to say, from President Abbas.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

I expect support from each and every one of you and not these games ... Be leaders. Leaders do the right thing, don't play games.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We expect all our friends, and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth, to look at these facts to see the truth and not to draw false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who’d stab them and knife them to death.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

In Syria, I've defined my goals. They're to protect the security of my people and my country. Russia has different goals. But they shouldn't clash.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

Make sure that the inspectors actually inspect. Make sure that the snapback sanctions actually snap back. And make sure that Iran's violations aren't swept under the Persian rug, of one thing, I can assure you: Israel will be watching closely.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

This deal doesn't make peace more likely. By fueling Iran's aggression with billions of dollars in sanctions relief, it makes war more likely.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Israel is grateful that this sentiment is widely shared by the American people and its representatives in Congress, by both those who supported the deal and by those who opposed it.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

My objective was to prevent misunderstandings between IDF (Israel Defence Force) units and Russian forces.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Industrials

We are ready to work together with Europe, Africa and other places in order to fight extremist Islam. But this necessitates a change in attitude, and this change will take time. But we will bring it about.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

Today, we are starting to build a fence on our eastern border, in the first stage, we will build it from Timna to Eilat in order to protect the airport being built there, and we will continue the fence up to the Golan Heights, where we have already built a strong security fence.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

To the extent that it is possible we will encompass Israel's borders with a security fence and barriers that will allow us to control our borders, we will not allow Israel to be flooded with illegal migrants and terrorists.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The nuclear deal with Iran doesn't block Iran's path to the bomb, it actually paves Iran's path to the bomb.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The State of Israel will have a budget because otherwise it will not have a government and our economic and security situation would deteriorate, demands always exceed what there is, but in the end the right decisions are made. We will do so this time as well.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

There is palpably renewed energy in our relationship, I mean that figuratively and literally, ... We think that by cooperating with each other we can take it out more easily, we can market it better, to the betterment of both our societies.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

We want to achieve peace, peace depends on security and ultimately if you don't have the capacity to defend that peace it collapses very rapidly in our area.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

From the initial reports we can already conclude that this agreement is a historic mistake for the world, far-reaching concessions have been made in all areas that were supposed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

We see before our very eyes a stark retreat from the red lines that the world powers set themselves only recently, and publicly, there is no reason to hasten into signing this bad deal, which is getting worse by the day.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs, and that is by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Such a deal does not block Iran's path to the bomb. Such a deal paves Iran's path to the bomb.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Against all odds, we achieved a great victory for the Likud, i am proud of the people of Israel, who in the moment of truth knew how to distinguish between what is important and what is peripheral, and to insist on what is important.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I thought we had to protect the southern gateway to Jerusalem by building here, there was huge objection, because this neighborhood is in a location which prevents the Palestinian (territorial) contiguity.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The choice is symbolic: the Likud led by me, that will continue to stand firmly for (Israel's) vital interests, compared with a left-wing government ... ready to accept any dictate.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

Our rivals are investing a huge effort to harm me and the Likud, to open a gap between my party, the Likud, and (our rivals), and if we don't close this gap, there is a real danger that a left-wing government will rise to power.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

This is a fateful struggle, a close struggle, we must close the gap, it is possible to close this gap.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

If I am the one to put together the government, he (Kahlon) will be part of the coalition. Without regard of the number of seats (he wins), he will get the finance portfolio.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We appreciate all that President Obama has done for Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The alternative to a bad deal is not war, it is a much better deal.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It's the blink of an eye in the life of a nation.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy -- is your enemy.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

That was never my intention.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I plan to speak about an Iranian regime that is threatening to destroy Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The purpose of my address to Congress.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I plan to speak about an Iranian regime that is threatening to destroy Israel, that's devouring country after country in the Middle East, that's exporting terror throughout the world and that is developing, as we speak, the capacity to make nuclear weapons, lots of them.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I think this is a bad agreement that is dangerous for the state of Israel, and not just for it.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

This wave of attacks is expected to continue, jews deserve security in every country, but we say to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Israel is your home.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

This wave of attacks and the murderous anti-Semitic assaults that are part of it is expected to go on.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

Jews deserve protection in every country but we say to Jews, to our brothers and sisters, Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

I am going to the United States not because I seek a confrontation with the President, but because I must fulfill my obligation to speak up on a matter that affects the very survival of my country, i intend to speak about this issue before the March 24th deadline and I intend to speak in the U.S. Congress because Congress might have an important role on a nuclear deal with Iran.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I intend to speak about this issue before the March 24th deadline and I intend to speak in the U.S. Congress because Congress might have an important role on a nuclear deal with Iran.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

World powers and Iran are charging ahead to an agreement that would allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weaponry, something that would imperil the existence of the State of Israel, iRANIANS KNOW.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

World powers and Iran are charging ahead to an agreement that would allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weaponry, something that would imperil the existence of the State of Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

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In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

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In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, something that would chiefly imperil the existence of the State of Israel, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

I put emphasis on markets to the East not because we want to give up on other markets. But we definitely want to reduce our dependence on certain markets in western Europe, western Europe is undergoing a wave of Islamisation, of anti-Semitism, and of anti-Zionism. It is awash in such waves, and we want to ensure that for years to come the State of Israel will have diverse markets all over the world.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

Israel completely rejects the ICC prosecutor’s announcement about opening a preliminary examination on the basis of the outrageous request by the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Authority is not a country and therefore it is not the court’s place, also according to its own rules, to carry out an examination like this.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I ask all Israeli citizens to simply watch out for their neighbors' welfare and help them.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Environment

We will take steps in response and defend Israel's soldiers.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

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Yisrael Beitenu's imbroglio is Bibi's good news.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

Now we also face the possibility of a diplomatic offensive, an attempt to compel us by means of U.N. decisions to withdraw to the 1967 lines within two years. This will lead Islamic extremists to the outskirts of Tel Aviv and the heart of Jerusalem.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

This is a benefit for millions of citizens a year, the weaker the family, the more members in a family, the greater the savings will be.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

The weaker the family, the more members in a family, the greater the savings will be.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Whoever wants to give a clear mandate to lead the country to a prime minister from Likud needs to give many votes to Likud, that is the main lesson of our experience from the past years. That is the challenge for this election campaign.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

The coming election is about one question - who will lead the country in the face of the tremendous challenges facing Israel - security, economic, regional.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

During the last few weeks and, in particular, the last few days, the ministers have intensely attacked the government that I am leading, ... I will not tolerate ministers attacking the government's policy and its head from inside the government.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

In past weeks, including the past day, ministers Lapid and Livni have harshly attacked the government that I head. I will no longer tolerate an opposition inside the government.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I demand these ministers stop their undermining, stop the attacks, i demand that they close ranks behind the proper policy for leading the nation - for its security, economy and lowering the cost of living, in every aspect. If they agree to do so, we can continue to work together. If they refuse, we will draw conclusions, and go to the voter.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

We are making great efforts to restore peace and quiet to Jerusalem.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Iran must not be allowed to set itself up as a nuclear threshold state, there is no reason for it to retain thousands of centrifuges which would allow it to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb in a short period of time.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

As a nation we will settle the score with every terrorist and their dispatchers, and we have proved we will do so, but no one may take the law into their own hands, even if spirits are riled and blood is boiling.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News