Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Naftali Bennett
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
No one wants peace more than me.
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
You don't talk to terror organizations!
Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.
The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
I think people appreciate honesty.
Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.
There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
Not everything can be solved quickly.
Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.
I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.
The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.
I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
I myself am a former commando fighter.
The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.
Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young people in Israel. Most families have three kids as opposed to one or two, so a big proportion of the population is under 30.
We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.
If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.
The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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