(Israel Hayom) Mati Tuchfeld - At a ceremony in Jerusalem commemorating the 109th anniversary of the death of the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday: "Peace is founded on security, not goodwill. Without security we will not be able to defend ourselves and any peace we have will unravel." "We remain faithful to Herzl's vision: to establish here an exemplary state, a modern state, a state that is rooted in our land, the Land of Israel, but also a state that above all is able to give the Jews what was lost to them in their years of exile - the ability to defend themselves, by themselves, against any threat." "The tarnishing of Israel, the description of us as rejecters of peace, as pursuers of war, as a dark state that aspires to conquest, rather than as an enlightened state that fights like no other democracy in the world, a state that fights like no other state in the world in the most enlightened way imaginable against the desires to destroy it. All the charges against us are overdone, exaggerated and absurd, but they still take hold."
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