Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

We will not let Hamas undermine our security and draw our country to bloodshed.

I always blamed Israel for my father's death, because that's what I was taught. I never looked at why Israel killed my father. They killed my father because the Fedayeen were killing Israelis. They killed my father because when I was growing up, we had to recite poetry pledging jihad against Israel. We would have tears in our eyes, pledging that we wanted to die. I speak to people who think there was no terrorism against Israel before the '67 war. How can they deny it? My father died in it.

Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

Israel, an embattled democracy, has been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.

The threats against Israel are growing.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

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.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.

Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Israel is very much endangering.

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.