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Dries van Agt, during a television interview. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.740584 (September 6, 2016)
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There’s a war criminal coming to this country. ... The occupation and expansion … building of settlements, of occupied territory, this is according to the Rome Statute, which is… the setup… the statute on which the international criminal court is based, in so many words, a war crime. ... So why should we receive someone who continues with such things, we could have sent him right away to the international criminal court, that would have been better

— Dries van Agt

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There’s a war criminal coming to this country. ... The occupation and expansion … building of settlements, of occupied territory, this is according to the Rome Statute, which is… the setup… the statute on which the international criminal court is based, in so many words, a war crime. ... So why should we receive someone who continues with such things, we could have sent him right away to the international criminal court, that would have been better" in the context of "Dries van Agt, during a television interview. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.740584 (September 6, 2016)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949), often called "Bibi", is an Israeli politician who has served as the 9th prime minister of Israel since 29 December 2022 (he was previously in office from 31 March 2009 to 13 June 2021) and is chairman of the Israeli Likud Party.

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