“Because there are things permitted to write only in Hebrew, like, for example, ‘Death to Arabs. Burn them all. Give it to them.’ ‘It’s okay, they’re only trolls on Facebook.’ But if you write the word ‘resist’ in Arabic, it’s incitement and subversion against the government.”
—Satirist Assaf Harel looks at claims by Culture Minister Miri Regev that a solidarity event for Dareen Tatour - an Arab-Israeli poet who has been charged with incitement and has been under house arrest for two years - was in fact "a stage for terrorism."*

Quote of the Day #2:
"The house on Kunder Street is the Zionist project’s model apartment, because here you get it all in a refined, condensed form. Here Israel says, without stammering: Entrance for Jews only. Exit for Arabs. Not only the right of return, but the right of property is also exclusively for Jews. A Jew who lost his home in 1948 will have his house returned to him with all respect. A Palestinian – and there were hundreds of thousands of them – has lost it forever. "
--Haaretz+'s GIdeon Levy writes about the meaning of the eviction this week of the Palestinian Shamasneh family from a pre-'48 Jewish-owned home, where they lived for 53 years as renters.**

"Israel Hayom newspaper was set up to serve Netanyahu, so when he called the editor to dictate the headlines, he certainly did not think there was anything wrong with that. The newspaper was at his disposal.”
—Former minister of justice Meir Sheetrit, who was in the Likud for 32 years, tells Maariv after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's phone calls logs were revealed and juxtaposed with headlines.**

"As has already been said many times: If he knew, it's serious. If he did not know, it is even more serious, because it indicates a serious management failure."
--Maariv's senior political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's claim that he was not aware of any corruption in the acquisition of three submarines that the security establishment did not even want, despite the fact that the police have arrested or questioned: two of Netanyahu's former bureau chiefs, a former head of the National Security Council whom Netanyahu appointed and Netanyahu's personal lawyer and cousin.*

"The main difference is that we are making the story about the people who live in the country and not about the country itself.”
--Shirley Ramon, head of Educational Authority in Tel-Aviv Municipality, explains why the city is rejecting the Education Ministry's 'Israeli Journey' of trips for pupils for its own secular journey.*

Quote of the Day #2:
“I recently heard that among the Likud values there is a new value called ‘loyalty to the leader.’ I hear this from the Likud leadership. I was not  aware of such a value… I think it is a very grave development, and utterly ridiculous nonsense.”
--Maverick Likud MK Benny Begin, son of legendary Likud prime minister Menahem Begin, derided what he described as a growing trend in his party in which members are expected to express personal loyalty to faction leader Benjamin Netanyahu.**

“Like many politicians before him, Netanyahu reached the point in which he is truly convinced that he and the state are one. Whoever criticizes him is committing treason against the state.”
--Yedioth’s top political commentator Nahum Barnea in an Op-Ed following Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech yesterday in which he attacked the media.* 

“I want Israelis to see how we live, how much we love to live, to dance, to drink and more. This way they will see that we aren’t terrorists.”
--A resident of Bethlehem tells an Israeli reporter that he is pleased with the new phenomenon of Israelis going out for fun in Palestinian areas where Israel prohibits.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
"There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel."
--Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Israeli settlers.*

“For years, one of the most problematic exports of the State of Israel has been the cheapening and trivialization of the Holocaust, bordering on subtle hints of denial. This happens, for example, by comparing every adversary or enemy to the Nazis. This isn’t a phenomenon limited to a bunch of internet talkbackers. The prime minister himself is among the primary culprits in this field. Then there is, for example, the peculiar lesson learned from the terrible tragedy: never again, as long as we are talking about us.”
—Yedioth reporter Yehuda Shohat writes that more and more Israeli Jews dare to express openly or implicitly that the main problem with the Holocaust was the choice of the victims, as many of them make excuses for neo-Nazi rallies in the US.*

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Quote of the Day #2:
“But it is hard to dispute their claim that many Jews, in Israel and around the world, think that hating Arabs purifies all vermins, be they a neo-Nazi, a Ku Klux Klan member or a Hungarian fascist. If they hate Arabs they must therefore be a Jew lover and loyal supporter of the State of Israel. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The debate is about what defines us—is a love for Israel, or a hatred of Arabs? The choice is ours.”
—Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea validates  the claim by authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman that Nazis and KKK members should not be absolved of their anti-Semitism due to their hatred of Arabs.**