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The Minute Mr. Putin Decided To Put His Military Forces In Syria, I Went To See Him. And I Said, "look, Here's What I'm Doing. I'm Not Intervening In Syria. But At The Same Time, If Syria Tries To Intervene With Us, If Iran Tries To Use Syria To Attack Us, We'll Stop It.

In My Office In Jerusalem, There's An Ancient Seal. It's A Signet Ring Of A Jewish Official From The Time Of The Bible. The Seal Was Found Right Next To The Western Wall, And It Dates Back 2,700 Years, To The Time Of King Hezekiah. Now, There's A Name Of The Jewish Official Inscribed On The Ring In Hebrew. His Name Was Netanyahu.

If I Have To Reduce All Of The Laws Of War Into A Single Sentence, It Is This. You Divide The World Into Two, Combatants And Noncombatants. You Can Attack Deliberately Combatants, But Not Deliberately Noncombatants. Israel Acts That Way. It Attacks Combatants And Accidentally Kills Noncombatants. But In The Case Of The Terrorists, It's The Exact Opposite. They Deliberately Attack Combatants - Noncombatants, Civilians, Deliberately.

A Legitimate Democracy Cannot Act Against A Terror Organization Because It Is Using Civilians As A Human Shield, And Therefore It Should Absorb Attacks On Its Own Civilians.

When I Say That Terrorism Is War Against Civilization, I May Be Met By The Objection That Terrorists Are Often Idealists Pursuing Worthy Ultimate Aims -- National Or Regional Independence, And So Forth. I Do Not Accept This Argument. I Cannot Agree That A Terrorist Can Ever Be An Idealist, Or That The Objects Sought Can Ever Justify Terrorism. The Impact Of Terrorism, Not Merely On Individual Nations, But On Humanity As A Whole, Is Intrinsically Evil, Necessarily Evil And Wholly Evil.