"It’s good Mr. Iliatov did not require that a judge needed to have served in the Border Police."

--Arab MK Ahmed Tibi reacts to new MK Robert Iliatov's stated requirement that candidates sing Hatikva to be appointed as judges.

Quote of the day: 

“I want to focus on how we lost among the young against a strong and organized right that bequeaths values of ethnic superiority and contempt for human rights, a media that implants racist, nationalistic messages, and an educational system that is controlled by a strong right-wing.”

--Meretz chief MK Zehava Gal-On said the left-wing camp must examine why it lost the elections - and even suggests connecting with other parties.**

 

"At first it was strange and scary to write and be in contact with our enemy, but with time, I discovered that the people in the group are really nice. You, the Iraqi Jews, are actually like our brothers because you are part of the history of my country and like me you love the country that it was."

-A., an Iraqi woman, who is a member of a special Facebook group where Iraqi-Israelis and Iraqis in Iraq communicate.**

“You would expect to find him in the Palestinian village of Susya because Jesus was not a Jewish settler. He was a rabbi for human rights.”
--Haaretz commentator Bradley Burston answers the question: ‘If Jesus were alive today, living in the Holy Land, where would you go about looking for him?’

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"They have even started arranging them in groups of threes and moving them into rows like in recruit service, or playing with them, making one of them sit and the other stand up alternately." 
--From testimony of a Border Police about humiliation of Palestinians, part of a report about wild-scale abuses against Palestinians at two checkpoints in West Bank run by Israeli Border Police.

“Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon today received the temporary appointment as the responsible adult in the house of crazies in which we live." 

--Maariv's senior political commentator Ben Caspit remarks on Yaalon's decision to stop protesting settlers.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“You cannot evacuate outposts. We will plant bombs in judges’ cars."
--Written in letter addressed to High Court justices in the wake of the evacuation of settlers from settler buildings in Beit El that the court ordered destroyed. 

“At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign policy and was described countless times by the Israeli leadership as an existential threat – the Jewish community in the United States is not standing as a united front behind Israel and important parts of it are on the fence."
--Israeli consul in Philadelphia wrote in a confidential telegram.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"We should send a D-9 [armored bulldozer] to raze the High Court." 
--MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) reacts to High Court ruling.