“Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon today received the temporary appointment as the responsible adult in
the house of crazies in which we live."
--Maariv's senior political commentator Ben Caspit remarks on Yaalon's decision to stop protesting settlers.
You Must Be Kidding: “You cannot evacuate outposts. We will plant bombs in judges’ cars."
--Written in letter addressed to High Court justices in the wake of the evacuation of
settlers from settler buildings in Beit El that the court ordered destroyed.
On Friday, 24 July 2015, Peace Now held it's annual conference in Tel Aviv under the title: Israel Now - Building
an Alternative." With 1,200 participants, many of them youth, this was Peace Now's largest conference of all time.
Some 60 speakers - including Members of Knesset, journalists, civil society leaders, experts and activists -
participated in different panels focusing on the two state solution; international pressure; identity
politics; the parliamentary opposition; and the struggle against silencing and de-legitimization of peace
organizations. Another issue highlighted at the conference was the struggle against the demolition of Palestinian
village of
Susya, which is taking place these very days.
You Must Be Kidding: "They have even started arranging them in groups of threes and moving them into rows like in recruit
service, or playing with them, making one of them sit and the other stand up alternately."
--From testimony of a Border Police about humiliation of Palestinians, part of a report about wild-scale abuses against Palestinians at two checkpoints in West Bank
run by Israeli Border Police.
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This week, Alpher discusses ramifications of the Iran nuclear deal for US-Israel relations, as well as regionally;
Israel’s relations with Jordan and Saudi Arabia; how Turkey has exploited the momentum of the Iran nuclear deal;
and at this time, two weeks past the conclusion in Vienna of the Iran nuclear agreement with the international
community, who is gaining and who is losing in the Middle East.
"At first it was strange and scary to write and be in contact with our enemy, but with time, I
discovered that the people in the group are really nice. You, the Iraqi Jews, are actually like our brothers
because you are part of the history of my country and like me you love the country that it was."
“I want to focus on how we lost among the young against a strong and organized right that bequeaths
values of ethnic superiority and contempt for human rights, a media that implants racist, nationalistic
messages, and an educational system that is controlled by a strong right-wing.”
--Meretz chief MK Zehava Gal-On said the left-wing camp must examine why it lost the elections - and even
suggests connecting with other parties.**