"We are the world champions of occupation, and we have made it into an art form. I was GOC Central Command -- the general of the occupation. And I ask, is this what we want to be?"
--Former GOC Central Command Maj. Gen. (res.) Gadi Shamni also charged that the "IDF's task of controlling a population of 2.5 million civilians distracts the military from its primary function."*

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"I don't think that we need to apologize to anyone. And I expect that they'll soon approve additional construction plans in Judea and Samaria."
--Mayor of Beit Aryeh, Avi Naim, commenting on the government giving retroactive approval yesterday to a full neighborhood that was built illegally in his West Bank settlement.**

"I expect two things from you. First, listen to your parents and your teachers, and second, learn to write and read. Learn Hebrew and Arabic and English. I want you to learn the history of the Jewish people and the Arab people, and I want you to learn the truth - that we were meant to live together."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Arab first graders on the first day of school yesterday.

"A country that every morning sends 17 inspectors to oversee the almost 14 thousand construction sites, and they take the bus. A country that is in a frenzy of building more and more apartments and parking lot and roads and interchanges on the backs of Arabs and Chinese. One inspector per 800 construction sites is a murder weapon.”
--Radio 103FM talk show host, Gabi Gazit, reacts to the killing and injuring of laborers, most assumed to be Arab or foreigners, in a massive collapse at a construction site for a parking complex.*

"I am used to seeing soldiers at checkpoints - and here soldiers are searching and trying to rescue. That's how it should be. A common destiny. Here, there are no Jews and Arabs."
--A relative of Mohammed Dawabsheh, from Duma village in the West Bank, told Maariv. Dawabsheh is one of the three missing construction workers still buried under the rubble of the collapsed parking complex in Tel-Aviv.*

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“To this day, various types of censorship and classification are preventing public access to millions of archival documents that could shed light on the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
--Lior Yavne, executive director of the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, said after a released archive document revealed that in 1969, Israel used the military censor to hide the creation of the first settlements from the public.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"These are not policemen, these are criminals."
--Said in court by the brother of Mustafa Nimr, who was killed this week by Border Policemen while driving in his neighborhood in E. Jerusalem. Police first said Nimr and his cousin, the driver, were 'terrorists,' who wanted to run them over. Then police said that the cousin, who drove the car, was responsible for Nimr's death, because his driving scared the police into thinking that they wanted to kill them.**

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“The group operates according to its principles, which have been guiding it for years.”
--The Samaria Settlers Council, an Israeli NGO in the West Bank, did not deny complaints it was disseminating material that encouraged creating disturbances and establishment of unauthorized outposts, called for hampering army operations, and praised the torching of [Palestinian] fields and property and the assaulting of Palestinians.**