“It was an interesting slot to be in.”
 --Israel Association of Baseball director Nate Fish said about the IAB presentation of its Jewish-Arab ‘Baseball for All’ program shown at the AIPAC conference in between the speeches of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Right-wing Jews retweeted former right-wing MK Yinon Magal's Tweet, 'Happy Purim, Jews,' just after the release of the Btselem video that showed an IDF soldier shooting dead a Palestinian assailant who was lying injured on the ground. The Tweet was reminiscent of the quote by then-MK Hanan Porat, who said 'Happy Purim, Jews' after Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs. He, too, sparked a storm. 

"The current campaign is linked to the latest attack on human rights organizations. Behind them is a common and clear goal – to set a new standard, under which anything a soldier does in the struggle against Palestinians is legitimate."
--Haaretz+ military affairs analyst, Amos Harel, writes about how the attack of the right-wing on the IDF, for arresting a soldier who shot dead an immobilized Palestinian assailant, is a danger to the 'IDF’s moral spine.'

"Whoever encourages the violation of the law to please an extreme and violent minority could lead us to anarchy."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in a counter-attack against Education Minister Naftali Bennett and other Knesset members, who called to end the investigation against the soldier who 'executed' the Palestinian assailant, Abdul Fattah al-Sharif. 

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“If our hands were strong, if we had governing power, then non-Jews shouldn’t live in the Land of Israel.”
-- Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, said, adding that at least the non-Jews served a purpose: “Who will be the servers? Who will be our assistants? Therefore, we leave them here in the land.”

You Must Be Kidding: 
"Those who didn't want me in Brasilia, Israelis supporting BDS, got me in the capital of the world..."
--After Brazil refused to approve settler leader Dani Dayan as Israeli ambassador to Brazil, due to his opposition to a two-state solution and his support for settlements, Dayan celebrated being appointed instead as Israeli Consul-General to New York, where he will  focus on Israeli outreach to American Jews and business sectors.

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Quote of the day:
“If they're right, if the West Bank is, in fact, already part and parcel of Israel, if the occupation is permanent and Israel has, de facto, annexed the West Bank with its millions of Palestinians disenfranchised, denied basic human rights, and subject to an entirely separate and unequal system of justice, then we - all Israelis - are already living in an apartheid state.”
--Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston calls on Jewish Americans to act against the appointment of a settler, who opposes the two-state solution, as Israeli Consul to New York.

"In a normal country,...the state is the one that dictates the army’s mode of behavior and determines its values, not vice versa. But in the Israel of 2016, that, absurdly enough, would be a recipe for disaster. For if the army were to adopt the country’s values, the IDF would have to execute many more civilians than it has so far."
--Haaretz journalist and commentator Zvi Bar’el writes that something is fundamentally wrong when the head of the military is the country's standard bearer for liberalism, values and human rights.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“Since the incident, we have been harassed as if we are the criminals. We are all living in fear, mostly my wife and children. One of the girls has not left the house for days out of a fear they will attack her.” --Emad Abu-Shamsiyah.
"In the eyes of people who don’t agree with you, you become immediately a traitor of Israel." -- Yehuda Glick.
--Since the incident caught on video in which an IDF soldier shot in the head and killed a wounded Palestinian assailant lying on the ground, both Emad Abu Shamsiyah, the Palestinian who filmed the video, and Yehuda Glick, the far right-wing Temple Mount activist who called the killing 'horrific,' have received death threats from right-wing Israelis.