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Vote: | First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. |
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Vote: | I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day. |
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Vote: | I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. |
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Vote: | I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table. |
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Vote: | I'm a proud member of the rabble. |
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Vote: | In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy for the Likud party leadership and premiership of Israel. |
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Vote: | Israel supports the UN Security Council resolution on the Iraqi issue, and values the determination of President Bush in leading the process. |
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Vote: | No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust. |
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Vote: | There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed. |
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Vote: | We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations. |
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Benjamin Netanyahu (Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ Binyamin Netanyahu, nicknamed Bibi) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel.
A member of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from April 1996 to May 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister of Israel to be born after the creation of the state.
Family and personal background
Benjamin was born to Zila and Ben-Zion Netanyahu. His father, Ben-Zion, is a professor of and a former editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia. His older brother Yonatan is a war hero who was killed during Operation Entebbe in 1976. His younger brother Iddo is a radiologist and writer.
All three brothers served in the Sayeret Matkal.
Netanyahu was married twice before, and has a daughter, Noa, from his first marriage. He is married to his third wife, Sarah, and has two children. He grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Cheltenham High School. He holds a BS in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and has studied political science at Harvard and MIT. His IQ has been approximated to be as high as 180.
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