Benjamin Netanyahu

I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again,

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

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

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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

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.

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.

Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them.

History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.

I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.