"When it comes to extricating wounded soldiers or units under attack, restrictions are relaxed and safety margins are minimized."
--Haaretz's Amos Harel explains one of the reasons for the high number of Palestinian casualties.**

 “If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?”
--Question Yochanan Gordon asked in an article in the Times of Israel that called for a consideration of Israel committing genocide to create quiet in Gaza. The article was later removed.**

“Only four dead children? What a bummer."
--A post by a Jewish Israeli on the internet that was mentioned in an article by Haaretz's Asher Schechter about the 'emotional numbness that has overtaken Israel.'**

"This is the result of incitement coming from government ministers who tell the public that whoever does not think like them is belongs to the enemy. In the end, there will be another political assassination, except that this time, after the murder there will be those who blame the murdered and not who stands and fuels the poisonous incitement every day."
--Peace Now Secretary General says after his face and those of dozens of left-wing journalists and leaders were published on a flyer with the symbol of Hamas' military wing.**

"Iron Dome did not succeed to protect Israelis from the precise and efficient missile of hatred between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel."
-- Dep. President of the Israel Democracy Institute in an Op-Ed in today's Yedioth.**

"He gave me back my son."
--Miri Schwartz thanks Arab Israeli doctor, Prof. Ahmed Eid, for saving the life of her son, the soldier who was shot in the stomach this week in Jerusalem by someone on a motorcycle.** 

"We were not thinking politically. Instead of leveraging the kidnapping and spurring Hamas in a political direction, we strengthened its military wing."
--Internationally renowned Israeli expert on Palestinian affairs, Menachem Klein, says Israel tried to destroy the Fatah-Hamas unity government, which ended with the situation we have today. Klein also suggests how to change the reality. (See Interviews)**

"The inability to decide on a compromise (sorry, but negotiations such as this require that each side compromise on something) means the negotiations will explode. Exactly like with negotiations with the Palestinian Authority."
--Maariv commentator Ran Adelist says that Israeli leaders are 'saving their political skin' making them unable to do the obvious for a long-term truce: compromise.**

"We will devote the first week of school and the whole school year to address the scourge of racism, and talk to students about aspects of tolerance, acceptance of others and the eradication of racism in society." 
--Education Minister Shai Piron made plans to battle the "unthinkable expressions of racism and incitement that came up during Operation Protective Edge."**

"This may be a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy." 
--Prof. Daphna Canetti of University of Haifa on the Israeli discovery that alcohol reduces war-induced anxiety.**