1500.
--Number of Palestinians in Israeli jails who will be joining the 240 prisoners already on hunger-strike. **

"The quality of the Palestinian government and its makeup are the Palestinians’ business. Just as Israel or any other country cannot dictate the composition of the Egyptian or Jordanian governments, so it must be with the Palestinian government."
--Haaretz Editorial calls on Israel to recognize the new Palestinian unity government.**

"Netanyahu's opposition to the unity government is an excuse meant to thwart diplomatic negotiations..."
-Meretz Chairwoman MK Zahava Gal-On calls on Israeli Prime Minister to reach out to new Palestinian unity government.**

1500.
--The number of new settlement homes Israel plans to build in retaliation for the formation of the (widely accepted) Palestinian Hamas-Fatah unity government.**

"The hunger strike of the (Palestinian) administrative detainees puts a spotlight on one of the most serious injustices of the military rule in the Occupied Territories - the routine use of administrative detention against Palestinians who are detained for many months, and sometimes years, without knowing the allegations against them or when they will be released."

--The Association for Civil Rights in Israel speaks against on Israel's policy of administrative detention and its prime minister's plan to have hunger-striking detainees force-fed.**

"Netanyahu is convinced that if he isn't punishing the Palestinians, he must compensate the settlers' lobby. His survival depends on this balance."
--Yedioth's commentator Nahum Barnea on the fear that is motivating the Israeli Prime Minister.**

"I’m sick of being politically correct."
--Justice Minister Tzipi Livni calls the settlement enterprise "a security, economic and moral burden" aimed to prevent peace.**

"Eight years ago, a bill outlawing force-feeding geese was passed here. So it's illegal to force-feed geese, but human beings can be force-fed. Sure if they are Arab."

--Arab Meretz MK Issawi Freij declares his vehement opposition in Knesset to force-feeding hunger-striking Palestinian detainees.**

"He is expected to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on the one hand and participate in the ceremony commemorating the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre of Israeli Arabs by Israeli soldiers on the other."
--Haaretz+ Knesset reporter writes that the President-elect Rubi Rivlin is not afraid of controversies and really does intend to represent all facets of Israeli society.**

"Just as we saw in the case of Firing Zone 918 [in the South Hebron Hills], after the Palestinians are expelled on grounds that it’s a firing zone, settlers are allowed to take control of the land."
--MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) responds to statements by Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Elkin that there is no choice but remove Palestinians from their homes in IDF firing zones.**