"I hope that this war will stop. My father has Jewish friends and he was in good contact with everyone, we do not want others to go through what we've been through. It is very painful.”
--One of the children of Mahmoud Abu Asbah, a Palestinian construction contractor who was killed Monday night when a rocket fired by militants from the Gaza Strip hit a building in Israel where he stayed during the week.*

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Quote of the day:

You Must Be Kidding: 
A day before the opening of a Jewish-Arab cultural festival in Haifa, a government ministry informed the municipality that it was withdrawing state funding for the event.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Bull."
— What Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the occupation.**

“Half a man.”
--What Likud MK Oren Hazan called wheelchair-bound Meretz MK Ilan Gilon in the Knesset plenum, sparking fury and calls for Hazan’s removal.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
"(Yitzhak) Rabin's assassination has no historical influence."
—Statement made by Speaker of Knesset (Likud) MK Yuli Edelstein.*

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Quote of the day:
“Not only did the violence influence, but it has completely changed the face of history, and it is fitting to internalize this as part of the required reform that we are all committed to.”
—MK Itzik Shmuli (Zionist Camp) responded to Edelstein's above remark.*

“If Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte supports Israel, why should we care he admitted killing citizens with his bare hands? Does it matter Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro—who is an avid admirer of military dictatorship—threatens to kill left-wing activists, if he says he plans to move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem?”
—Yedioth commentator Nadav Eyal asks whether israel should have moral or liberal considerations when foreign relations are concerned.

Quote of the Day #2:
“Look me in the eyes and tell me why, in this country, Yigal Amir can become a father and I can’t?”
—With tears in his eyes, homosexual MK Itsik Shmuli (Zionist Camp) asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at a Knesset debate on changing the Surrogacy Law.

You Must Be Kidding: 
A student in the settlements receives 15,900 shekels er year, while the national average stands on 9,800 shekels.
--Report issued by the Knesset’s Research and Information Center found that the settlements receive a quarter of all regional councils funds even though they represent only 5% of the country’s regional councils.**

“We are being asked to choose between statehood and loyalty, loyalty in the media, loyalty in culture, and now loyalty in the law."
--Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber said at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee about a bill to appoint legal advisors.*