"From your first day as prime minister, you lead an endless discourse of hatred and incitement. You keep legitimizing racist sentiment, fear and intimidation. It starts with hatred of the other, the Arab, and moves against artists, journalists, and finally to the court system, IDF commanders and other officials in the political system. Your voice is not heard against difficult social phenomena and moral dilemmas in Israeli society. The only conflicts you vigorously and tirelessly manage are conflicts between us, between the citizens of Israel."
--In his speech at the opening of the Knesset's winter session, opposition and Zionist Camp leader, MK Isaac Herzog, gave scathing criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's leadership.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
"It glorifies violence and desensitizes our children."
--Orthodox educator Shira Hecht-Knoller of the Drisha Institute for Jewish learning, on the video promoting a private modern Orthodox Jewish kids' sports camp in New York by showing children dressed as soldiers crawling through the mud to ambush the enemy and, at the end, an Israeli flag and a sign saying, 'Enlist Now.'**

“The disease destroys the patient. Israelis are sick with the disease of fear because of their history and narrative. The Palestinians are sick with the disease of the occupation.
--In a conversation with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, a Palestinian doctor from Gaza, Dr. Izzeldin Abouelaish, compared fear of treatment of disease with Israeli fear of moving towards solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Dr. Abouelaish lost three of his daughters in the first Gaza war 2008-2009.**

"You have placed a gun on the table."
--Chief Justice Miriam Naor struck back at Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's attempt to curb the power of the High Court.**

“After 21 years, hatred rears its head, and incitement is here again. The hatred is the same hatred, the incitement is the same incitement, and the leader is the same leader." 
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp chief, Isaac Herzog, said at the commemoration rally marking 21 years since the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.*

"If his legal advice is ignored, and the law passes in one cunning way or another, every person whose work involves the implementation of this law must disobey the orders he receives—whatever the cost the regime exacts of him."
--Yedioth commentator Yaron London writes that the bill to legalize outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land a blatantly illegal and must be defied.**

"Similarities between the right wing in the United States and Israel are evidence that the roots of the powerful fury felt by our right-wing voters is not necessarily related to the sanctification of the land, or fear of Palestinians, or relations between Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin) and Ashkenazim (Jews of Eastern European origin). Its origins are different and, as sane citizens, we have a responsibility to get to the bottom of the problem and try to defuse it."
--Tzvia Greenfield, peace activist, leftist, and Israel's first female ultra-Orthodox MK examines what motivates right-wing US and Israeli voters.*

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"He does not carry in his genes the genetics that every American politician (including Hillary) carries: the deep automatic commitment to Israel in any situation and in any weather. Trump broke all possible rules and it will not be a problem, if he wishes, to smash that one, too. Therefore, I don't think any one in Jerusalem opened bottles of champagne the morning after the elections."
--Senior Maariv political commentator Ben Caspit writes about US President-elect Donald Trump and Israel.*

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“We believe Trump’s limited familiarity with the international arena will make the team he brings with him to the White House even more important, since it will have broad influence in setting the administration’s foreign policy.”
--In an internal document, Israel's Foreign Ministry concedes Israel has no idea what the policies of US President-elect Donald Trump will be towards Israel.**