"[The Strategic Affairs Ministry] is confusing Israel's right to exist with rejection of its right to occupy territories that don't belong to it. She's confusing the reasons that turned Israel into a 'pariah state' with the symptoms of a serious disease."

- Haaretz writer, Zvi Bar'el, in response to the Strategic Affairs Ministry's goal
to reverse the world's perception of Israel as a pariah state by 2025

"My bill suggests that no criminal investigation be launched against a prime minister for any offense carrying less than a six-month [prison] sentence. Naturally, prime ministers have to be held accountable for such actions as well, so the bill also suggests that the statute of limitations exclude any such offense, so that once a prime minister's term comes to an end, an investigation could be launched."

- MK David Amsalem on his new bill to ban certain legal probes into the PM's conduct

"Amona must stay in place, thrive and flourish. The cabinet must make sure that a vibrant community does not become a desolate place just because of formalities."  

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"The Munich Agreement didn’t prevent the Second World War and the Holocaust precisely because its basis, according to which Nazi Germany could be a partner for some sort of agreement, was flawed."

- Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, comparing
the Munich Agreement of 1938 to the Iran deal

"Fascism is the left's derogatory name for its enemies. Jabotinsky was called a 'fascist,' does that sound familiar to you? I suggest to my friends to read the Hebrew Encyclopedia article under the 'fascism' entry - there's a sentence there that the author wrote according to which 'there is a tendency among the left to denounce any enemy as fascist.'"  

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“The challenge is not to break down but rather impose your love on such people. It’s easy to love someone who loves me; but greatness is to love someone who doesn’t. That’s true love.”

- IDF Major Alaa Waheeb responding to critics of
an Arab Muslim working as an IDF career officer

“We are not propaganda machines. We are representatives of policy and will advance it better when we use our skills correctly...The world is not against us and does not consist of anti-Semites."  

"If the elections really do take place and are held successfully...the second and even more significant element is that Hamas will win renewed legitimacy as a political player in the West Bank. And that hasn’t been the case since June 2007."

- Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research