"My peers and I don’t need any more multi-million dollar ventures to save us. What we need is for the community to wake up. What we need is for the community to stop willfully blinding itself to the disastrous reality of holding millions of Palestinians under military occupation."
--Simone Zimmerman, a young Jewish American, rejects the idea that to save the Jewish future and Israel’s public image, Jewish young people need to be engaged in “universal do-gooding," as Haaretz+ commentator Ari Shavit suggested.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
A campaign organized by a new settler group of comprising so-called moderate settlements adjacent to the road between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea has released a video on Facebook comparing EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from the film "Silence of the Lambs" because of the EU's aid in giving temporary housing to Palestinian Bedouin living in that corridor.**

"The bill emits a McCarthyite stench. Its sponsors’ goals are clear and well known: to harass Arab Knesset members, who serve as a bridge between the Arab community and state agencies."
--Haaretz Editorial calls on MKs "who still see the right to vote and to be elected as a sacred and fundamental right...even when the words and actions of the minority’s elected representatives aren’t to the liking of the ruling majority" to vote against the 'Suspension Bill'.'*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Travel agents who were at a meeting with the Tourism Ministry’s director genera Amir Halevy understood that the ministry intends to cut grants allotted to Israeli travel agencies whose groups sleep over in Bethlehem. 

You Must Be Kidding: 
"You're just proving that you are the ones here who are the terrorists."
--Oryan Ben-Uliel, wife of Amrama, the main suspect in the murder of three members of the Dawabshe family, responded as she walked past the supporters for the murdered Dawabshe family, who chanted "murderers" at her. They responded shouting "God is great." 

115,000,000.
--The amount of dollars donated in the last eight years to the far right-wing Elad organization, which champions Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem - much of it coming from shadowy companies based in global tax shelters.

"While everyone is talking about politics, we’re trying to create real change on the ground. This Jewish-Arab partnership between Nazareth and Tel Aviv simply works.”
 -Eitan Sela, co-founder of Hybrid, a project which aims to advance Israeli Arabs in the startup world with the help of alumni of Unit 8200, the elite IDF Military Intel hi-tech unit.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“They told me always to start with a quote because it makes a cultured impression, so here’s one. As a well-known Chinese philosopher once said: ‘Cut the bullshit.’” 
--Controversial Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev opens her address to the Haaretz Culture Conference. She was booed.

“This horrific episode was not an ‘incident."
--Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, writes in letter to UN Secretary General after a UN report on 'The State of Palestinian Women' described the November 2014 terror attack in Jerusalem’s Har Nof synagogue as an “incident" in which five Israelis and two Palestinians were killed.  

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You Must Be Kidding #2: 
“Eight-year-old children shouldn’t know the difference between a stun grenade and a gas grenade.”
--One of the unhappy parents told Haaretz+ after Border Policemen gave Israeli second-graders a presentation at school that included explanations of crowd-dispersal tactics and displays of various types of weaponry.