“The suspect doesn’t throw the helmet down and charge at the terrorist, he doesn’t shout. He cocks his gun while in a standing position, in what appears to be cool-headed behavior.”
-- IDF’s attorney for operational affairs, Lt. Col. Aduram Riegler said “the soldier is suspected of shooting deliberately and without need…”

"In Israel’s 34th government, the Israeli right was caught shamefully naked. It doesn’t really want a single state with the Palestinians among us. It doesn’t really want to annex Area C of the West Bank and leave dangerous Palestinian enclaves. It’s afraid."
--Political analyst Tal Schneider writes in Maariv why the far right-wing sits in government and does not fulfill its campaign promises.

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“I have a feeling he wasn’t so excited to do it.”
--Israeli Professor Michael Bar about the response he received from US President Barack Obama after Bar asked Obama to deal with the “Jewish people’s intransigence” regarding solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I couldn’t believe that I, a simple man, would receive the cornea of Meir Dagan, blessed be his memory. The man is a hero of Israel.”
--Avraham Jan, an 81-year-old shopkeeper in Tel-Aviv who was blind until recently, discovered to whom his new corneas originally belonged when he went for a check-up yesterday following his implant operation.

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“It’s natural that my wife wouldn’t want to lie down [in a bed] next to a woman who just gave birth to a baby who might want to murder her baby twenty years from now.”
--MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) explained his support for separation of Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards in Israeli hospitals.

“Herzl, Ben Gurion, Begin, Jabotinsky and other Zionist leaders are doing somersaults in their graves. Wild creatures have kidnapped Zionism and now they are dragging it, kicking and screaming, into oblivion.”
--Top political commentator of Maariv, Ben Caspit, writes about how the racism expressed by Habayit Hayehudi MK Betsalel Smotrich is taking over the country.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Beitar Jerusalem soccer team banned Haaretz newspaper reporters from the stadium after the paper called the team 'racist.'

"You find yourself, especially in the age of social media networks, flooded by all kinds of lies you can not deal with. They spread this or that. Myths. They say things about you and they attack from here and they attack from there. It's just irresponsible, a loss of values, a loss of moral compass and unfortunately, these people have also infiltrated our movement."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told Likud members about the incitement he is battling against - even from within his party.

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"The Etzel (Irgun), the Lehi, the Haganah - all of these Jewish organizations went out to the streets to fight against the British mandate and its soldiers, to make your state - which has become an incredible state - a reality. Why can't the Palestinians do the same?" 
--Zionist Camp MK Zuheir Bahloul said during a cultural event in Acre amid the uproar over his statement that a Palestinian who attacks a soldier is not a terrorist. "This week we know that we are there, at that place we didn't believe we'd reach, the enlightened nation that we are. And we can no longer say that this is just the lunatic fringe, a handful, weeds."
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Sima Kadmon writes that last week, Israel showed that it cannot call itself an enlightened country or people.

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"It's like cockroaches. When you see a cockroach, you put a pot over it, so it won't escape, and then you all the time afraid of more, because you don't see it, you don't know if it escaped or didn't escape. Same with the Arabs. If you see them more, you are scared of them less."
--An Israeli female religious seminary student explained to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin why she supported cooperation with the Arabs. Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea reported that President Rivlin, who came to speak with Jewish religious and secular students and Arab students about co-existence, was disheartened.

"The terrorists choose to attack weak and defenseless civilians: old people, women, etc - essentially anyone, except soldiers...Guerilla fighters are not terrorists. They are irregular soldiers, who fight against regular army forces and not civilians."
--Excerpts from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's 1986 book about terror, which Yedioth revealed to show that once, he, too, made the distinction. 

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"The Smotriches spoke of the holy and pure moment of the birth of a Jewish child. Of the demand that Arab hands not interfere and pollute this holiness and purity. Of the refusal to share the physical space with Arabs, because Arabs are by necessity enemies. Of the baby that is born to an Arab mother and in another 20 years will murder the baby of the Jewish mother. This is not just ordinary racism. Racism is always offensive and it is important to fight it. But racism has its degrees, too. This is the vocabulary of the master race.”
--Haaretz+ commentator Uri Misgav writes that the time has come to recognize the phenomenon of a Judeo-Nazi movement that exists in the margins of Israeli society. 

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