"In Jerusalem, they think the whole world is stupid...It's time for you (Israelis) to understand that (your) allies are losing patience."
--Unnamed senior European diplomat told Maariv after report published that Germany wants to end its unconditional support for Israel due to Israeli policies expanding settlements and not advancing peace.**

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"In the videos he posts online depicting the terror attacks, Ohana always sounds like the dominant voice. He’s often seen giving instructions to soldiers or police, warning them about threats, managing the rescue teams and interrogating Palestinians. In some cases, he seems to be taking charge of events and telling the security forces what to do. In most of the videos, he can also be heard cursing wounded and subdued assailants. He is not seen giving them medical aid in any of the footage."
--A Haaretz+ investigation reveals the controversial behavior of an Israeli ambulance driver named Ofer Ohana, who lives in a Hebron settlement, arrives at every attack, but does not treat the wounded Palestinians and "at every available opportunity, he is seen inflaming the atmosphere."***

“Nice doesn’t cut it anymore.”
--Millionaire venture capitalist-turned-politician Erel Margalit, who is positioning himself to challenge the leadership of, and to try and take the helm of, Israel’s Labor Party, says the party needs to take a more assertive approach - and he demonstrates that with his YouTube clip.*

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“Before the whole mess, we made a clip together from a love song he wrote and he hosted us in his refugee camp with open arms. This case has shaken up my life.”
-- Jenia Borkatovsky, a fellow participant in the Jewish-Arab ‘Just Singing’ group of musicians, is one of many Jewish friends supporting Sami Araj by attending his court hearings. Araj was detained after being falsely identified as a terrorist in Beersheva but then kept in detention and accused of throwing stones in E. Jerusalem.**

"If there's something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance it's the recognition of the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016."
--IDF Deputy Chief of Staff General Yair Golan said in a speech at a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony last night - and sparked a storm.*

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A small Spanish town that changed it’s name from ‘Killer of the Jews’ to ‘Little Hill Fort of Jews’ has begun experiencing a rash of anti-Semitic vandalism.

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The day after IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Yair Golan said he was frightened to recognize that "the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016," the IDF Spokesman released a statement that General Golan "did not intend to compare the IDF and Israel to what happened in Germany 70 years ago. Such a comparison would be absurd and baseless."**

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Israel's Defense Ministry plans to establish a new Israeli settlement for settlers it tried to evict because they lived on privately-owned Palestinian land. The new settlement will be next to the Geulat Zion outpost, which has been a focal point of violence against Palestinians and the home of the settler charged with the arson-murder of the Dawabsheh family.*

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In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right-wing MK Bezalel Smotrich argued that revenge is an “important and moral value” that must be conducted against Palestinians by the Israeli government, and had that been done it could have prevented subsequent Jewish attacks on Palestinians, including the July 2015 arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family.**

“We have come to the Knesset of Israel today to warn about the trend of the slow and continued erosion of the foundation of Israeli democracy, which expresses itself in offensive discourse, verbal violence and lack of tolerance for the other and those who are different…”
--The Presidents of Israel's universities made a joint statement backing up the statement by General Yair Golan comparing trends in Israeli society to those of Germany 90 years ago.*

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Israel expropriated land from an East Jerusalem Palestinian family without a tender and against the rules, then handed it over to Amana, an organization that works to establish settlements and outposts.**

"Nobody called S. Yizhar a traitor. Nobody boycotted him. This story, like many others, became part of the curriculum in schools. Israeli society has moved a long way since then."
--Israeli educator Dr. Revital Amiran wrote that the popular and political support for the 'Shooting Soldier,' is a watershed moment undermining the army and tells readers about the book, 'The Captive,' by S. Yizhar, a story about Israeli soldiers who arbitrarily took captive a Palestinian shepherd and how they put him through humiliating and brutal interrogations. In another Op-Ed today Amiran wrote about how the new civics textbooks made Israel appear as if it were a country of Ashkenazi religious Jews, without any internal conflicts. 

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"He is the worst thing that happened to the people of Israel. Because he comes disguised as a right-winger, but in fact he is the most left-wing. He’s like Sharon. He became prime minister and then changed. He is the first one that needs to be taken down."
--‘D.,’ an Israeli hilltop youth in the West Bank tells Maariv reporter Lior Dayan about their plans to change the state.