Latest Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes from Interviews

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• Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Leader, Needs, Importance

  "Netanyahu: Israelis Do Not Need To Be Lectured About Importance Of Peace By Foreign Leaders" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Two, Want, States

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Israel, Citizens

  Source: www.wbur.org

• The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, People, Palestinian

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Done, Prime

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Israel, Law

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Zero, Israel, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Borders, Reason

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  America, Allies, United States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• The minute Mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in Syria, I went to see him. And I said, "Look, here's what I'm doing. I'm not intervening in Syria. But at the same time, if Syria tries to intervene with us, if Iran tries to use Syria to attack us, we'll stop it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Iran, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• All I can tell you is that Israel's position in the Arab world has changed because they no longer see Israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant Islam, either those led by Iran, the Shiites, or - and those led by Daesh - by ISIS, the militant Sunnis.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Iran, Israel, Isis

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Together

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Intelligence is a critical thing.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Critical

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Iran, Differences, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Responsibility, Thinking, Speak

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• Donald Trump feels very warmly about the Jewish state, about the Jewish people and about Jewish people. There's no question about that.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  People, Trump, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Attitude, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Determination, Thinking, Israel

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 9, 2015.

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Army, Doe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Israel, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Doe, Target

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Organization, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• 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.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Past, Years, Europe

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com