"I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet. "

"Friday’s shelling was conducted by the [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad, and we know exactly who was behind it... We will do anything we have to to stop this. We will not accept ‘drizzles' (slang term for occasional rocket and mortar fire."

-- Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Do you want half of Africa coming here?... Sorry to say this, but for us, he is a goy from Kenya.”

-- Amos Arbel, an official from the Ministry of Interior, defends the deportation of a Jewish convert from Africa.

“KKL has turned from the Jewish National Fund into the Settler National Fund."
--Peace Now's Settlement Watch director, Hagit Ofran, slammed the Jewish National Fund for "playing a central role in an ugly process of using the Absentee Property Law and dubious testimonies" to help a right-wing organization evict Palestinians from their homes.*

"The Likud has completed the task of sabotaging the diplomatic peace process, which Trump began with the fake declaration of Jerusalem as capital."
--Meretz leader MK Ilan Gilon in response to Likud Central Committee vote to annex West Bank settlements.*

“The ‘temporary’ situation has dragged on for 50 years, and we will not go on lending a hand.”
—From a letter written by a group of 63 Jewish Israeli 12th-graders, who publicly declared they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel army.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Israeli public grants were funneled to an organization that builds illegal West Bank outposts, Haaretz+ reported.

Quote of the day:

"Hundreds of thousands of civilians will take to the streets to physically block it from happening, and the free media will consider it a disgrace and never allow it pass."
--Former prime minister Ehud Barak said that the 'backward' nationalist Netanyahu government is passing laws that will bring about a binational state.*

"We're operating in a space filled with people, and we need to differentiate between incidents in which a soldier acts in violation of orders or against IDF values, and incidents in which a soldier acts in accordance with IDF values and uses judgment, even if his decision is not perfect in the end."
--An unnamed senior IDF officer defended the two soldiers who did not use force against the Palestinian girls who hit them.*