"The difference between Palestinian terrorism and ISIS terror is the motive. In fact, Palestinian terrorism is fighting for the independence and rights of the Palestinian people, and so the Palestinians and some of the nations of the world see it, even when we are fighting and condemning Palestinian terrorism (rightly, we have to defend ourselves against it)."
—Maariv columnist Ran Adelist compares the ISIS attack in Barcelona and the Palestinian attacks against Israelis and writes why the Shin Bet is part of the problem.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Adalah’s petition to the interior minister shows that Bedouins of the Negev who have been Israeli citizens for 20, 30 or even 40 years, some of whom served in the army, who voted and paid their taxes, had Interior Ministry clerks cancel their status with a keystroke.
--Haaretz's Jack Khoury reveals that Israel is revoking the citizenship of hundreds if not thousands of Bedouin citizens of Israel.
 

 

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You must be kidding
“We are not going to state what the outcome has to be. It has to be workable to both sides. That’s the best view as to not really bias one side over the other, to make sure that they can work through it.”

-- In critical policy shift, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert says endorsing the two-state solution would be "biased"
 

 

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Quote of the day:
“Balfour became famous for his promise to the Jews to establish a state for them on the land of Palestine . . . I call for the current British foreign minister to be famous for giving the Palestinians a promise called the ‘Johnson declaration’ that recognizes a Palestinian state.”

-- PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Tuesday in a meeting with British Middle East and International Development Minister Alistair Burt
 

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You must be kidding:
The "Regularization Law" - which allows for the retroactive legalization of Israeli outposts, built in violation of Israeli law - is a "humane, proportional and reasonable response to the genuine distress of Israeli residents [settlers].” 

-- the state argued on Monday before the Israeli High Court to reject legal challenges to the "Regularization Law" 

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Quote of the Day

"We need them to tell us where the hell they are going. . . It’s now or never. . . This is the time and this is the opportunity. . . we are hanging on this opportunity. . . we want it to succeed.”

-- PLO representative in Washington, Husam Zomlot, speaking in a press briefing on Thursday about Greenblatt, Kushner, and Powell's upcoming trip to the Middle East

 

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You Must Be Kidding: 
“... an Israeli citizen, someone who understands your identity, who has a sense of nationhood and peoplehood, and the history and experience of the Jewish people, you should respect someone like me, who has analogous feelings about whites. You could say that I am a white Zionist – in the sense that I care about my people, I want us to have a secure homeland for us and ourselves. Just like you want a secure homeland in Israel.”

-- Richard Spencer, a white supremacist and alt-right leader, in an interview on Israel's Channel 2 News
 

 

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