"Every society has its extreme fringes, but today we need to ask ourselves: What is it about the public atmosphere that gives the zealots the feeling that they can strut safely in the mainstream? What made it so that these weeds are threatening the well-being of the entire field?"
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin looks inward following last week's murders.

"In my view, if we all are silent about these things, we are all collaborators.”

--President Reuven Rivlin responds to his detractors for speaking out against Jewish terror.

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“Of course I am.”
--Right-wing Lehava organization director, Beni Gopstein, answered the question in a debate about whether he is in favor of burning churches.

"They want to build a new holy temple and they want to kick out, expel, eliminate, what they call 'idolaters'. And if that, by chance, reminds you of the ideology of ISIS and Hamas, it probably is not far from reality.” 
--Former senior Shin Bet official, Lior Ackerman, compares Jewish extremists to ISIS, after one was put under administrative detention (prison without charges). 

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91.5
--Percentage of investigations into settler attacks on Palestinians that were closed without indictments, despite Israeli authorities claims of being committed to cracking down on nationalistically-motivated crimes.

"Where is God's house located? In (murdered victim) Shira Banki’s home or (stabber) Yishai Shlissel's home? In Shlissel's Jerusalem, since the time of the Second Temple, there have been zealots walking around full of hatred, who use the name of G-d to put fear in the streets. They are certain that G-d gave them the keys to the city..."
--Rabbi Binyamin (Benny) Lau writes about secular Jews vs. religious Jews and who has ownership over morality. 

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"Some Muslim was burned, probably a future terrorist, so there's a big fuss, and our president accuses the entire Jewish nation of the crime. It doesn't make sense. Where is the president when Jews are murdered every other day?"
--"Asheriko from Facebook" tells Ynet in an interview after uploading videos of President Reuven Rivlin in Nazi uniform.

"There are murderers who think that gays are endangering Judaism, there are murderers because they are under occupation, there are murderers because their blood boils over the murder of Jews and there are murderers in order to protect Israel. Every murderer and his reason."

--Moti Fogel, whose brother's family was murdered in 2011 and who saw Shira Banki stabbed last week a day before the murder of a Palestinian toddler, shares his thoughts about hatred and murder in Israeli society.

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"Because, it's not possible that to a demonstration against the murder of children and innocent fewer people show up than to one that deals with housing prices or that against the freezing of construction in settlements."
--Israeli author Etgar Keret reveals that few people showed up to Saturday night's demonstrations and the media hid that fact.

“More than feeling ashamed, I feel pain. Pain for the murder of a little baby. Pain that my people have chosen the path of terror and have lost their humanity. Their way is not my way. Their way is not our way. Their way is not the way of the State of Israel and not the way of the Jewish people. Unfortunately, until now, we have treated the phenomenon of Jewish terror loosely. Maybe we didn’t internalize that we are facing an ideological group, determined and dangerous which aims to destroy the delicate bridges we build with great labor.”
--President Reuven Rivlin in his speech at the protest rally in Jerusalem against Israeli violence and in a post on his Facebook page.

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"Shame on you," "You are not my president," "You do not represent me in any way," "The President of the Arabs, not the Jews." 
--Some of the comments and curses written on the Facebook page of President Reuven Rivlin after he condemned the attack by Jewish terrorists, who killed a Palestinian baby.

"In the face of a wave of terror against the innocent, the loss of life, and the loss of law and order, the State of Israel and Israeli society must carry out some soul searching."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin comments after the murder of a Palestinian infant by settlers and the stabbing of six participants of a gay pride parade by an ultra-Orthodox man.**

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“At least you could have succeeded in killing a few of those damned perverts.”
--Yedioth quotes Facebook post by Gilad Klainer on the stabbing of six participants in Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade.

“At this crucial point of the Iranian issue – which for years has been at the core of Israeli foreign policy and was described countless times by the Israeli leadership as an existential threat – the Jewish community in the United States is not standing as a united front behind Israel and important parts of it are on the fence."
--Israeli consul in Philadelphia wrote in a confidential telegram.

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"We should send a D-9 [armored bulldozer] to raze the High Court." 
--MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) reacts to High Court ruling. 

“Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon today received the temporary appointment as the responsible adult in the house of crazies in which we live." 

--Maariv's senior political commentator Ben Caspit remarks on Yaalon's decision to stop protesting settlers.

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“You cannot evacuate outposts. We will plant bombs in judges’ cars."
--Written in letter addressed to High Court justices in the wake of the evacuation of settlers from settler buildings in Beit El that the court ordered destroyed. 

“You would expect to find him in the Palestinian village of Susya because Jesus was not a Jewish settler. He was a rabbi for human rights.”
--Haaretz commentator Bradley Burston answers the question: ‘If Jesus were alive today, living in the Holy Land, where would you go about looking for him?’

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"They have even started arranging them in groups of threes and moving them into rows like in recruit service, or playing with them, making one of them sit and the other stand up alternately." 
--From testimony of a Border Police about humiliation of Palestinians, part of a report about wild-scale abuses against Palestinians at two checkpoints in West Bank run by Israeli Border Police.