“I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans — in grief, as in defiance.”

— Benjamín Netanyahu

Statement on the September 11th terrorist attacks (20 September 2001), as quoted at the official site of Israeli embassy http://www.israelemb.org/US-Israel-Relations/US-Israel-Relations_famous.htm
2000s, 2001, September

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