Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

Israel is a true friend. It is our greatest ally in the region. And if Israel is attacked, America will stand with Israel. I've made that clear throughout my presidency.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

We do not want to tie ourselves ... to the United States, because she is unreliable ... and her statesmen do not know the mind of their own country.

China remains too important for America's national security to risk the relationship on the emotions of the moment.... No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied by tens of thousands of demonstrators.

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.

Support for Israel is not only crucial for the United States but for the West.

Israel believes, when it comes right down to it America is the only big country that cares whether they live or die. That's why I can say, give up the West Bank, because the Israelis knew that if the Iraqi or the Iranian army came across the Jordan river, I would personally grab a rifle, get in a ditch, and fight and die, and I would.

The United States has become geopolitically hobbled seemingly interested in grand strategic initiatives or transformative diplomacy, as its attention constantly dances from one crisis to another.

The United States is proud of her remoteness from the old world, her freedom from entanglement in its quarrels, her isolation. Yet in her relatively very short history as an independent state she has fought at least six foreign wars while her troops have landed on foreign soil on nearly a hundred occasions. Not one of those wars was for the purpose of defending American soil.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support for Israel certainly would be. With an indifferent America, Israel would become a lonely, frightening place.

America's real national security interest in the region is protecting our friend Israel.

The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies.

You can easily justify to anyone about the need to keep supporting Israel. We get very generous support. We need it.

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Democrats have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel since its founding.

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

Israel must be wiped off the map.