"We have a blood alliance, but just as importantly, we have a life alliance. We need to make sure that we build this partnership and this alliance together, as it should be."
--The most sought after candidate in the Israeli elections campaign, Benny Gantz, made his first political statement against the coalition's controversial Jewish Nation-State Law and in support of Israel's Druze minority, which considers it discriminating and insulting.*

"As per the ancient words, "Thou shall not murder,' for G-d's sake! What is the point of living in a Jewish state, and going through so many trials and tribulations to protect it, if the officials of this country do not see fit to condemn such an abysmal act? How are we different from other nations, if the murder of an innocent woman does not shake us, just because the murderer comes from among us (allegedly), and the murdered person is the daughter of another nation?"
--Maariv commentator Shai Lahav slams right-wingers who either support the Jewish terror suspects in the murder of a Palestinian woman or who stay silent about the murder and the attacks on the Shin Bet, which detained and interrogated the suspects.*

“I can’t separate religion from politics, because religion worked in the service of the settlement project, and that’s the biggest sin in my view. In my experience, Judaism underwent a crude reduction. It was just land and nationality, nationality and land."
--Tsivia Barkai Yacov, an Israeli film director, who was raised as a religious settler.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel’s military courts imposed fines topping 60 million shekels ($16 million) on West Bank Palestinians from 2015 to 2017, according to a report by Machsom Watch, even though the great majority of the offenses don’t involve the harming of people or property.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
“(The highway) is an example of the ability to create a shared life between Israelis and Palestinians while addressing security concerns.”
—Speaking at the opening ceremony of the ‘apartheid road,’ a new West Bank road that separates between Palestinians and Israelis, Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan forgets what the word ‘shared’ means.**

"Why is the alarm sounded when Jews are interrogated by dark police methods, but no one says a word when Arabs are interrogated with the same methods? Is a stone thrown by a Jewish murderer more sacred than one thrown by an Arab murderer?"
--Haaretz+ journalist Zvi Bar'el slams the criticism of the Shin Bet interrogations of the five Jewish terror suspects, saying a moral country cannot abide a double standard.*

“The Netanyahu government is carrying out a dangerous and underhanded step in order to avoid public criticism in Israel and worldwide – it is no coincidence that this was done immediately after the announcement of the election, when public attention in Israel is directed at political developments and during the Christmas holiday, when the entire Christian world is on vacation."
--Peace Now's Settlement Watch team leader, Shabtay Bendet, said in reaction to the Israeli government's allocation of 300 acres of West Bank land for a new neighborhood that would expand Efrat settlement toward Bethlehem and surround the Palestinian city with settlements.*

482.
--The number of Jewish terror attacks - nationalistically motivated crimes - against Palestinians in 2018 - triple of what it was the year before.*

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"The feeling of the [Israeli] government is everything is allowed, that the time to do things is now because the [U.S.] administration is the most pro-settlement you can ever have."
--Hagit Ofran of Peace Now's Settlement Watch program explained after The Associated Press compiled Peace Now figures that showed an increase in building in 2018 and a sharp spike in planning for future construction.*