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The following quote is attributed to Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel.

My opinion of Christian Zionists ... Netanyahu

It appears in inspiringquotes.us.

It was shared by a couple of Facebook users, and the quote or part of the quote appears in many neo-Nazi sites such as (Warning: racist content) this, this, this, this and in this video cover.

Did he say this about Christian Zionists?

Sakib Arifin
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    Meme generators aren't notable claims –  Jan 12 '17 at 19:21
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    Please notice that the quote is about Christian Zionists, not about Christians. – Pere Jan 12 '17 at 19:43
  • Can you post a link to where you've seen this claim? As it stands, this is not notable. – Reinstate Monica -- notmaynard Jan 12 '17 at 20:05
  • @iamnotmaynard I have added lots of links. – Sakib Arifin Jan 12 '17 at 20:37
  • @Pere I updated the post. Thanks for pointing that out. – Sakib Arifin Jan 12 '17 at 20:38
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    I'm afraid the added links don't help the post. While popular social media posts have been used to demonstrate notability (in the sense that the claim is/may be widely believed), the one Facebook link that was added has 81 likes and 30 shares — hardly popular. The other four do repeat the claim, but there's no indication that they are widely read or believed (and they are nuts, which doesn't help notability). – Reinstate Monica -- notmaynard Jan 12 '17 at 21:11
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    The links you posted don't really show notability as they are literally random sites. Google autocomplete does not prove anything. Where does the image come from? – Sklivvz Jan 12 '17 at 21:36
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    The quote appears for the first time on the Internet on February 1, 2001. (See [this Google search](https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=#tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1%2F31%2F2001%2Ccd_max:2%2F1%2F2001&q=%22My+opinion+of+christian+zionists%22) which is limited to that one day.) On that day, it suddently appears on these sites - whale.to, whitewraithe.wordpress.com, quoteaddicts.com, theaussiedigger.com, likesuccess.com, diggerfortruth.wordpress.com - as part of a collection of quotes (not part of a story or anything). Draw what conclusions you will. – ff524 Jan 13 '17 at 00:24
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    @ff524 I think all those 01 February 2001 dates are default fake dates those sites use, and this fake quote really appeared early 2015 – DavePhD Jan 13 '17 at 01:06
  • @DavePhD Good point about possibly fake dates, although the quote appears on Facebook (which has more reliable dating) earlier than 2015: https://www.facebook.com/nagdeems/posts/193203527383392 – ff524 Jan 13 '17 at 01:08
  • @ff524 yes, that looks real – DavePhD Jan 13 '17 at 01:10
  • @MohammadSakibArifin *many* types of question get downvoted easily and the only thing they all have in common is they're bad questions. [Counter example 1](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16178/does-israel-have-nuclear-weapons) [counter example 2](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36529/has-israel-broken-over-60-un-resolutions) [Counter example 3](http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30625/did-early-hamas-receive-some-support-from-israel) (need I go on?) – Jamiec Jan 13 '17 at 12:07
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    @ff524 the quote was in this Christian chat forum 2 July 2010: http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/16702-bibi-christian-zionists.html and here 02 June 2009 http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2009/06/famous-quotes-of-chosen-ones.html – DavePhD Jan 13 '17 at 12:24
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    @Sklivvz This quote is, unfortunately, notable because it has entered the "inspiringquotes" database http://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/7kIB_4CbQIeuh . Also, it is on at least 100 websites, but usually as a comment. – DavePhD Jan 13 '17 at 12:50
  • @Jamiec Two of your counters have two or more downvotes. The one that doesn't have any downvotes is about a issue that can't be confirmed (does it make it a bad question?). – Sakib Arifin Jan 13 '17 at 13:04
  • @Jamiec Did you notice the 10 downvotes I got after asking this? (They were reversed.) – Sakib Arifin Jan 13 '17 at 13:14
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    @DavePhD inspiringquotes has [2k views a day](https://sitenum.com/inspiringquotes.us), and that's for the whole site! On Christian chat there's plenty of people already debunking the claim. Northerntruthseeker seems like an antisemite site of no relevance. My point is, it seems like a quote that's being disseminated by very few individuals, and has really no major traction. – Sklivvz Jan 13 '17 at 13:21
  • The image is not even on azquotes.com as far as I can tell. This does not look like a claim at all. – Sklivvz Jan 13 '17 at 13:25
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    @Sklivvz I think I understand. We don't want to help further spread a more or less obviously fake quote, unless it's already spreading rampantly, in which case we would then try to show it is false. – DavePhD Jan 13 '17 at 13:29
  • @Sklivvz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E1FEIYLwnI has around 1200 views. – Sakib Arifin Jan 13 '17 at 13:36
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    "The following quote attributed to Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel, is widely shared on social media" <- this seems patently false – Sklivvz Jan 13 '17 at 13:40
  • @Sklivvz I searched for the quote and saw a huge number of results from facebook which is why I used that term. I have updated it to make it more specific. – Sakib Arifin Jan 13 '17 at 13:43
  • @Ilya Melamed you describe the links as NSFW. Do any of the links contain nudity, or just hate speech? – Andrew Grimm Jan 19 '17 at 22:09
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    @AndrewGrimm, just hate speech. – SIMEL Jan 19 '17 at 22:19

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If he did it would be completely out of character. So the provenance is doubtful. For example, he said recently about Christian Zionists

“I wanted to call and show my deep appreciation, and we know we have no better friends on earth than you,” the Israeli leader said on speakerphone to the board of Christians for Israel, an international pro-Israel advocacy and charity organization based near Amsterdam whose 30 affiliates worldwide have hundreds of thousands of members.

Considering the alignment of US Christian Zionists with Israel the above quote in your claim is almost certainly an anti-Semitic slur.