"Israel is the only country immune to all the shocks… Israel is the only place where Arab Knesset members are allowed to stand here on the rostrum, criticize, attack and insult."
"Their claims sound hollow when we see what's going on around us. There is no Arab country where Arabs have the rights and democratic freedom to express themselves as they do in the State of Israel… There is freedom here and this freedom is what a lot of people in the Arab world search for today."
Netanyahu warned that if Iran is allowed to complete its nuclear program, “the hopes that the world holds for an Arab spring will be destroyed,” because Iran has already proven its willingness to intervene in political unrest in Egypt and, in the past, in Lebanon.
“I would expect that the world put similar pressure on Iran. Iran is at least equal to Libya and I believe that its importance is even greater, Iran hopes to return the region to the Ninth Century... Iran’s leaders, have made great efforts to stop peace and progress in our area.”