"Dr. Bibi and Mr. Netanyahu say opposite things depending on the time and the audience.” 
--MK Essawi Freij (Meretz) yesterday. Arab MKs rejected Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's statement this week that he made "a mistake" when he said on the eve of elections that 'Arabs are flocking in droves to the polls.'

"And as you know, we do not consider settlements to be part of Israel."
--US State Department spokesman Mark Toner explains why the US does not view the EU labeling of settlements as a boycott of Israel. 

“Just before the right in Israel begins to celebrate, we must tell them: There is no connection whatsoever between the child with a knife from Hebron and the French Muslim with a suicide bomb in Paris. Just before the right in France and all of Europe starts to celebrate, we must tell them: Don’t you dance on the blood as well. The nationalism, hatred of foreigners, racism, deportation of refugees, isolationism and the war against Islam — your magic solutions will not solve anything.”
--Haaretz+ commentator Gideon Levy warns that if Israel continues with its policies, the child stabber from Hebron will turn into the adult suicide bomber of ISIS. 

"The next time Palestinians hide weapons in a civilian ambulance, the next time a stabber disguises himself as a journalist, the next time Palestinians shoot rockets from near a United Nations building, remember that officers from Israel’s Yamam (Special Police Unit) disguised themselves as a woman in labor on a wheelchair entering a hospital in Hebron in order to arrest a wounded suspect and kill his relative."
--Haggai Matar examines the Israeli media coverage of an illegal Israeli operation.

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"A taxi driver passing by saw the crucifix in my car and started shouting: 'He's an Arab terrorist.' They then started beating me with everything they had: sticks, chains and knives. I shouted at them that I'm a police security guard but it didn't help."
--Christian Arab Israeli security guard hospitalized after attack by Jewish Israelis who suspected he was a terrorist simply because he was Arab.

"I'm sick to death of the justifications: Our terrorist as freedom fighter (Choose one: Yasser Arafat or Yitzhak Shamir). Our terrorist as a natural and legitimate response to oppression, injustice, hopelessness, evil, history."
--Bradley Burston writes in Haaretz that the 'The enemy of my enemy is love.'

"It should have insisted on something like "Product of a bunch of lunatic paranoids that see anti-Semitism and Israel’s imminent destruction lurking in every corner."
-- David Rosenberg writes that the European Union was kind to Israel in labeling settlement products, noting that it didn’t take decades for the EU to slap sanctions on Russia and there weren’t labels reading 'Made in Crimea (Russian occupation').

“I’ve been shocked to hear claims of anti-Semitism and historical comparisons or analogies to the persecution of Jews in Germany in the ’30s and ’40s...In my mind this is a distortion of history and belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis, and the memory of their victims.”
--European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in response to remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

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45 days community service.
--The sentence Magistrate’s Court Judge Dana Cohen-Lekach gave to a Border Policeman who was caught on film severely beating an American-Palestinian. The state had requested a seven-month jail term.

"The dream of every spy recruiter could be the nightmare of intelligence chiefs and their government."
--Amir Oren writes in Haaretz+ how AIPAC rejected 'walk-in' spy, Jonathan Pollard, but Israeli officials couldn't resist the tempting opportunity he offered and harmed vital interests: relations with the US. 

"Even if we really try, the settlements and the occupation in the Territories will not become legitimate thanks to radical Islamic terrorists who strike in the heart of Paris…Neither will the world agree to support the continuation of the occupation, the settlements and our control of the Palestinian people under the disguise of a global war on terror."
--Peace Now Secretary General, Yariv Oppenheimer, writes in Yedioth that the attempt by the right-wing to gain a political profit at the expense of the dead and wounded in Paris is “nothing less than cheap demagogy.”

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The evictions were conducted on the basis of a lawsuit asserting the land on which the homes were built was consecrated in the Jewish religion over a century earlier. 
--Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson reported on the methods the settler organization, Ateret HaCohanim, employs to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Silwan neighborhood of E. Jerusalem. Ateret HaCohanim took Haaretz to court. 

"But even in the defense establishment, there has been a feeling in the past few months that we are a bit too late. Because one also has to know when to give..."
--In a revealing analysis of the current situation, Yedioth's chief military analyst writes that Israel's planned gestures to the Palestinian Authority this week should have been made before a crisis broke out and, now, Israel must either make a real peace move or re-occupy the West Bank, because the violence will only get worse.