"They want blood."
--Yedioth's top commentator, Nahum Barnea, calls on the government not to heed the calls by far right Economy Minister Naftali Bennett's party, Habayit Hayehudi, for an extreme response to the murder of the three yeshiva teens.**

"It is time, Mr. Prime Minister, that you step off your high horse and stop being a mere observer, because we've already seen how easily words turn into a finger on the trigger."
--Meretz party Chairwoman Zahava Gal-On last night at the demonstration in Tel-Aviv against racism, revenge and violence organized by Peace Now.**

"The tragedy of the innocent boys murdered by terrorists will haunt us for a long time. But it will not destroy us. Jewish revenge killings will."
 -- Rabbi Daniel Landes, Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, on the kidnapping, burning and murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, from E. Jerusalem.**

"This is a shocking murder, barbaric and sadistic, a brutal terrorist attack, and a provocation to the state. Woe to us if the appetite for revenge replaces the state and the institutions of the rule of law and order. All those busy stirring up passions and giving legitimacy to vendettas should remember that also their hands will be stained with blood."
--Labor MK Shelly Yechimovitz said after the news that the six people suspected of killing an innocent Palestinian teenager by burning him alive were Jews.**

I want to apologize for the unforgivable.
For the boy whose face in the photograph I can see even with my eyes closed. The face of the boy before he was wrestled into a car by people on my side, who charred him to death.

--Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston writes an apology to the Palestinians 'for the unforgivable, for the unfathomable, and for all those on my side who never will.'**

"And maybe, just maybe, the despair that has ruled us in recent years is also partly the despair of the doomed, who understand by now that there is no way to avoid punishment for their deeds, or for what they allowed to happen through their support, or their silence, or their apathy, so therefore – Why not eat, drink and make merry while one still can?"
--Israeli author (and moral guide) David Grossman examines why Israel has not been able to make peace.**

53.

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86.
--Number of Palestinians killed in first three days of Operation Protective Edge.**

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