Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

Israeli Prime Minister

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27 Quotes by Benjamin Netanyahu

1. [The ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan] is callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging across the world. Through this incendiary decision, Mr. Khan takes his place among the great anti-Semites of modern times. He now stands alongside those infamous German judges that donned their robes and upheld laws that denied the Jewish people their most basic rights, and enabled the Nazis to perpetrate the worst crime in history.

2. Two weeks ago, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I pledged this: no amount of pressure, and no decision in any international forum, will prevent Israel from defending itself against those who seek our destruction. To all the enemies of Israel, including their collaborators in The Hague, I renew that pledge today.

3. The idea that we stop the war before achieving all its goals is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and eliminate the Hamas battalions there - with or without a deal, in order to achieve complete victory.

4. Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the Hague Criminal Court to undermine its fundamental right to defend itself ... While the Hague Tribunal's decisions will not affect Israel's actions, they will set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and public figures of any democracy fighting criminal terrorism and dangerous aggression.

5. We will complete the elimination of Hamas battalions, including in Rafah. There isn't a force in the world that can stop us.

6. We stand in front of a global flood of a billion Muslims, a big part of them are active on social media ... There's nothing to do, that is the truth. We are facing too many.

7. I met with Secretary of State Blinken. ... I told him I hope we would do this [invade Rafah] with US support, but if necessary -- we will do it alone.

8. As far as the State of Israel is concerned, there is no obstacle for the Gazans to leave, maybe even the port they are building could be used for this, but there are no countries in the world that are ready to receive them.

9. I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area west of Jordan - and this is contrary to a Palestinian state.

10. Neither The Hague nor anyone will stop us.

11. Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it.

12. We’re facing monsters, monsters who murdered children in front of their parents ... This is a battle not only of Israel against these barbarians, it’s a battle of civilization against barbarism.

13. We will hold Gaza after the war too, we will not trust international forces.

14. [T]his is the war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. We will not let up on our mission until the light overcomes the darkness — the good will defeat the extreme evil that threatens us and the entire world.

15. You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.

16. We are striking our enemies with unprecedented might. I emphasize that this is only the beginning.

17. Gaza is the city of evil [...] We will turn all the places where Hamas is organized and hiding into cities of ruins. I say to the residents of Gaza - get out of there now. We will act everywhere and with all our strength.

18. We will avenge with great force the black day they have inflicted upon the State of Israel and its citizens. As Biyalik said: revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan.

19. Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.

20. Israel is not a state of all its citizens. It is the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them.

21. I'm asked if we will forever live by the sword — yes.

22. Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Hajj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they will all come here.' 'So what should I do with them,' [Hitler] asked. He said, 'Burn them.'

23. All civilian casualties are unintended by us, but actually intended by Hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because, somebody said, and it's gruesome, they use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. The more dead the better.

24. Today, with the US, I know how they are. America is something that can be easily moved.

25. I gave my own interpretation to the agreements, in such a way that will allow me to stop the race back towards the 1967 borders. How did we manage to do this? Nobody defined what 'military facilities' are, so I also defined them as being security zones. The entire Jordan Valley, for me, is a 'military facility.'

26. In the next war, if we do it right, we’ll have a chance to get all the Arabs out ... We can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.

27. [The Golani Brigade] are okay long as they're led by white officers.