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We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.

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Gasoline, Entire, Flatten, Vehicles

A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

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Jewish, Through, Gene, Convert

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

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Welcome, Want, Jewish, Convert

One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.

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Security, Cannot, Israelis, Forsake

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.

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Xenophobia, Buds, Displaying, Israelis

I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.

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Woman, Circumstances, Want, Policemen

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Community, Gay Community, Celebrating

Ahmed Tibi does not recognize the existence of the state of Israel, and letting him into the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is a serious danger to its security.

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Existence, Committee, Danger, Foreign Affairs

I walk around haredi neighborhoods freely, and I actually receive a lot of positive responses from people.

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Neighborhoods, Receive, Freely

We have to protect and do our utmost to fortify the walls of Judaism in the land of Israel through legislation that will guard the unique Jewish character of the state of Israel.

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Will, Through, Guard, Legislation

This stereotype that haredim don't serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.

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Army, Always, Contribute, Stereotype

Empires came and went while we, the Jewish people, persecuted relentlessly, facing expulsions and pogroms and the Holocaust, survived. We survived thanks to the Torah and faith in the Lord.

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Jewish People, Persecuted, Empires

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

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Law, Respected

One must know to lose honorably.

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Lose, Know, Must, Honorably

The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.

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Religious, Educational, Discrimination

It is inconceivable that ministers of the Israeli government choose a car whose features are unnecessary luxuries in addition to being produced in Germany.

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Inconceivable, Germany, Produced

There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, 'Why can't we all unite?' Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home... But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.

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Big, Been, Religious, Bridge

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

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Disease, Lesbians, Gays, Invented

The state of Israel will stand as one entity against any attempt to boycott its products.

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Will, Against, Israel, Entity

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem, About, Dividing, Negotiations

Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.

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Rebuilding, Years, Damage, Attacking

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.

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Sure, Still, Appropriate, Axis

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

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Existential, Israel, Admitting

Let's set things straight... there are 300 million people living in countries within the Nile basin in horrific economic and security conditions. The $500 that they earn in Israel every month is an annual salary in their countries of origin.

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Salary, Origin, Nile, Conditions

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.

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Welfare, Minister, Labor

Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.

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Jerusalem, Cannot, Construction

South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.

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Country, Turned, South, Garbage

I am not the type of politician who will tell you I am going to act for my own benefit. The answer is no, I will continue to serve the public.

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Will, My Own, Going, Benefit

There is not another country that is as sensitive as Israel is to the rights of foreigners.

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Country, Another, Israel, Foreigners

We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.

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Jewish, Jewish People, Losing

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