Top 100 Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

52. “If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

53. “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

54. “Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

55. “The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don’t want to see this turned into some great political football.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

56. “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

57. “The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

58. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

59. “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

60. “I’m not consumed with political machinations.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

62. “Don’t be fooled. The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

63. “Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

64. “Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to radical Islam.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

65. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

66. “Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support – both Democrats and Republicans – and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

67. “The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

68. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

69. “Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

70. “I’ve been right more than I’ve been wrong.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

71. “Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world’s most dangerous regime, from developing the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

72. “Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

73. “No other country faces both constant threats to its existence and constant criticism for acting against such threats.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

74. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

75. “I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

76. “Israel is very much endangering.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

78. “The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

79. “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

80. “The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian – Palestinian reconciliation.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

81. “If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, they should at the very least be prepared to insist that Iran changes its behavior before the deal expires.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

82. “The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

83. “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

84. “I will go to the UN General Assembly and, in a clear voice, tell the nations of the world the truth about Iran’s terrorist regime, which constitutes the greatest threat to world peace.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

86. “Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security. You couldn’t make this thing up.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

87. “If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

88. “We’ll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

89. “I’m very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel’s citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

90. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

91. “The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they’re trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that’s, that’s wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

92. “We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

93. “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

94. “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

95. “I’m the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

96. “I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, ‘Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.’ I just – I don’t want a peace process, I want a peace result.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

97. “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.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

98. “The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

99. “While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu

100. “I don’t think that anyone should doubt Israel’s determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.”

— Benjamin Netanyahu