Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes
When your enemies are fighting one another, don’t support one or the other. Weaken both.
There was a major revolution ongoing in Syria with different Arab Muslim factions slaughtering each other. The government side was particularly vicious shelling and using poison gas unarmed civilian enclaves in areas where the regime was not popular. Many nations called for humanitarian intervention. Netanyahu opposed any interventions while other politicians like President and former prime minister Shimon Peres disagreed and thought that Israel and other nations should intervene on humanitarian grounds and prevent the Assad government from butchering its own non-combatant civilians.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel (Likud), Interview with Fareed Zakaria,, CNN Global Public Square, October 5, 2014
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Manava Dharma Shastra. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.
Not all the Muslim nations of the Middle East want Israel destroyed. The Kurds and the Turks both maintain relations with Israel. The problem lies with the Arab Nations.
Adams was in agreement with his former chief George Washington {37176} as well as with many of his political foes.
Israel had again been attacked by Arab armies and at the same time the parties were in peace negotiations. Some argued that there should be a cease fire while negotiations were ongoing, but Rabin explained that if the two did not go on simultaneously and independently, neither might go well.
A major issue amongst Israeli’s is to how they should relate to those hostile Islamic nations in their area who claim they are at war with Israel or the Jewish People. This position in effect says that the oratory of those Islamic groups that claim that they are in a war—a holy war even—should be taken at their word and treated as a wartime enemy and Israel should actively attempt to kill and destroy them.
George W. Bush. Reference to foreign policy situations like Syria where there is a major conflict or contest between two forces, each of which is fatally flawed from an American point of view.
Israel's Arab enemies do not simply want to control the territory and/or the economic resources. Their aim, overtly stated thousands of times since the formation of Israel, is to "drive the Jews into the sea", murder the population, obtain revenge for their percieved humiliation that "foreigners" to the region and their religion could build a society so far advanced compared to Arabs on the harsh land abd without any of the oil riches that some of the Arab states had. Israel has won all the wars that the Arabs have initiated, and never murdered the population, and provide the "occupied territiries" with better medicine and infrastructure than the Arabs achieve on their own.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
Hamas of one of the very few organizations whose very charter was opposed to all forms of diplomacy for the settlement of problems.
Syria constantly goaded Nasser and Egypt to attack Israel. However, Nasser was receiving huge foreign aid in the form of wheat which was needed to feed his population. See {595373}
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician serving as the prime minister of Israel since 2009, having previously served in that role from 1996 to 1999. Netanyahu is also the chairman of the Likud – National Liberal Movement. He is the longest-serving Israeli prime minister in history and the first to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence.
