You can’t end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can’t begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations. – Benjamin Netanyahu
The U.S. has a stronger military than Israel, but, but don’t short-change Israel, either. Don’t short-change them. – Benjamin Netanyahu
I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state. – Benjamin Netanyahu
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. – Benjamin Netanyahu
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the – the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam’s Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. – Benjamin Netanyahu
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. – Benjamin Netanyahu
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be. – Benjamin Netanyahu
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans – in grief, as in defiance. – Benjamin Netanyahu
I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table. – Benjamin Netanyahu
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. – Benjamin Netanyahu
So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away. – Benjamin Netanyahu
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. – Benjamin Netanyahu
But so far, you know who’s been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel’s destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end. – Benjamin Netanyahu
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. – Benjamin Netanyahu
Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We’re willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state. – Benjamin Netanyahu
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, ‘Look, we’re in the same city, we’re in the same building, for God’s sake, the U.N. Let’s just sit down and begin to talk peace.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu
President Abbas, you’ve dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That’s what we should aim for, and that’s what I believe we can achieve. – Benjamin Netanyahu
And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, ‘Thank you, America.’ And we’re friends of America, and we’re the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East. – Benjamin Netanyahu
Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world. – Benjamin Netanyahu
We’re willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we’re entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state. – Benjamin Netanyahu
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves. – Benjamin Netanyahu
Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. – Benjamin Netanyahu
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero. – Benjamin Netanyahu
