"He did not come looking for votes from us. He came to calm us down. He knows that frightened Arabs are going to the polls in droves.”
--Arab Israeli voter from Qalansawe town says that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fears mass the Arab vote.*

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"(Palestinian construction developer Khaled Sabawi’s goal) is to encourage a Palestinian takeover of the land in Judea and Samaria."
--From a letter written by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett's advisor, about Sabawi's housing development project in the Palestinian West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, which is not under Israeli civilian control and, therefore, Palestinians can build there without Israeli permission.*

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Quote of the day:
“The Israeli right seems to think that the Palestinians can build only on the moon, and maybe not even there."
--Jewish-Israeli attorney Michael Sfard, who is represening Palestinian housing developer, Khaled Sabawi, in a petition to Israel's High Court seeking IDF protection to work at the site. The developer and his workers have suffered from harassment, violence and attempts to stop their work by Jewish settlers.*

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"Anyone who doesn't see importance in this meeting, just three weeks after the release of the Trump plan, is wrong...In my opinion, it is always preferable and even recommended to walk around in our region with open eyes."
--Maariv's new diplomatic affairs correspondent, Anna Barsky, writes about her trip to the West Bank at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority.*

Quote of the day #2:
"We talk to Hamas all the time. It's a stupid lie that we ignore them because they are terrorists. They are terrorists, but it's better to talk to them rather than fight them."
--Former deputy IDF chief Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yair Golan, currently a lawmaker with the Labor-Gesher-Meretz alliance, urged Israel on Tuesday to talk directly with Hamas and strike a security agreement.**

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Israel's Housing Ministry is promoting the construction of 9,000 Israeli homes in E. Jerusalem, in an area which even the Trump plan designated as Palestinian.***

36:33.
--Kahol-Lavan seats in Knesset vs. Likud seats in Knesset, were elections held in Israel on Monday.**

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"People said that their dream is to come to Israel as tourists."
--Alex Lipshin, a Russian-Israeli, who according to Yedioth is the first Israeli to travel to Saudi Arabia following the Saudi announcement that Israelis were permitted to visit, quoted Saudi Arabians he met.*

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"I do not intervene with signs in the public space, but this time the rules have been broken. The humiliation of others is not our way."
--Tel-Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai orders removal of billboard signs, which showed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh blindfolded and kneeling, saying they were reminiscent of ISIS and the Nazis.*

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"It is easiest to set dialogue on fire. It is very difficult to cool it. For months, there has been a racist discourse held against Israeli Arabs. The prime minister and right-wing politicians did not shy away from calling them "Arab parties" in a negative and bitter context. And what are the Arab parties if not hundreds of thousands of Arab citizens voting for them?
—Yedioth political reporter, Yuval Karni, wrote in an Op-Ed following the latest statements against Israeli Arabs and the ‘Joint List.’*

“This is a conflict zone under military rule which doesn’t permit and won’t permit residents from the area to attend. This isn’t an event organized from the outset with the cooperation of the Palestinians and I think that there's something really insensitive here.”
--Korhaa Yuval Itah, 39, a Midburn community member from Jaffa, explains why she opposes holding a 'Burning Man-style' festival in Area C of the Palestinian Territories.*

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“In my worldview, I don't see a world with borders, with lines between people...(and all the discussion about territories) from my standpoint are political issues that I don’t want to deal with.”
--Yaron Ben-Shoshan, one of the organizers of the Israeli 'Burning Man-style' festival in Area C of the Palestinian Territories, justified his plan.*