"The Etzel (Irgun), the Lehi, the Haganah - all of these Jewish organizations went out to the streets to fight against the British mandate and its soldiers, to make your state - which has become an incredible state - a reality. Why can't the Palestinians do the same?" 
--Zionist Camp MK Zuheir Bahloul said during a cultural event in Acre amid the uproar over his statement that a Palestinian who attacks a soldier is not a terrorist. "This week we know that we are there, at that place we didn't believe we'd reach, the enlightened nation that we are. And we can no longer say that this is just the lunatic fringe, a handful, weeds."
--Senior Yedioth political commentator Sima Kadmon writes that last week, Israel showed that it cannot call itself an enlightened country or people.

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"It's like cockroaches. When you see a cockroach, you put a pot over it, so it won't escape, and then you all the time afraid of more, because you don't see it, you don't know if it escaped or didn't escape. Same with the Arabs. If you see them more, you are scared of them less."
--An Israeli female religious seminary student explained to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin why she supported cooperation with the Arabs. Top Yedioth political commentator Nahum Barnea reported that President Rivlin, who came to speak with Jewish religious and secular students and Arab students about co-existence, was disheartened.

"You find yourself, especially in the age of social media networks, flooded by all kinds of lies you can not deal with. They spread this or that. Myths. They say things about you and they attack from here and they attack from there. It's just irresponsible, a loss of values, a loss of moral compass and unfortunately, these people have also infiltrated our movement."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told Likud members about the incitement he is battling against - even from within his party.

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“Herzl, Ben Gurion, Begin, Jabotinsky and other Zionist leaders are doing somersaults in their graves. Wild creatures have kidnapped Zionism and now they are dragging it, kicking and screaming, into oblivion.”
--Top political commentator of Maariv, Ben Caspit, writes about how the racism expressed by Habayit Hayehudi MK Betsalel Smotrich is taking over the country.

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Beitar Jerusalem soccer team banned Haaretz newspaper reporters from the stadium after the paper called the team 'racist.'

“I couldn’t believe that I, a simple man, would receive the cornea of Meir Dagan, blessed be his memory. The man is a hero of Israel.”
--Avraham Jan, an 81-year-old shopkeeper in Tel-Aviv who was blind until recently, discovered to whom his new corneas originally belonged when he went for a check-up yesterday following his implant operation.

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“It’s natural that my wife wouldn’t want to lie down [in a bed] next to a woman who just gave birth to a baby who might want to murder her baby twenty years from now.”
--MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) explained his support for separation of Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards in Israeli hospitals.

“I have a feeling he wasn’t so excited to do it.”
--Israeli Professor Michael Bar about the response he received from US President Barack Obama after Bar asked Obama to deal with the “Jewish people’s intransigence” regarding solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"In Israel’s 34th government, the Israeli right was caught shamefully naked. It doesn’t really want a single state with the Palestinians among us. It doesn’t really want to annex Area C of the West Bank and leave dangerous Palestinian enclaves. It’s afraid."
--Political analyst Tal Schneider writes in Maariv why the far right-wing sits in government and does not fulfill its campaign promises.

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“The suspect doesn’t throw the helmet down and charge at the terrorist, he doesn’t shout. He cocks his gun while in a standing position, in what appears to be cool-headed behavior.”
-- IDF’s attorney for operational affairs, Lt. Col. Aduram Riegler said “the soldier is suspected of shooting deliberately and without need…”

"In a normal country,...the state is the one that dictates the army’s mode of behavior and determines its values, not vice versa. But in the Israel of 2016, that, absurdly enough, would be a recipe for disaster. For if the army were to adopt the country’s values, the IDF would have to execute many more civilians than it has so far."
--Haaretz journalist and commentator Zvi Bar’el writes that something is fundamentally wrong when the head of the military is the country's standard bearer for liberalism, values and human rights.

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“Since the incident, we have been harassed as if we are the criminals. We are all living in fear, mostly my wife and children. One of the girls has not left the house for days out of a fear they will attack her.” --Emad Abu-Shamsiyah.
"In the eyes of people who don’t agree with you, you become immediately a traitor of Israel." -- Yehuda Glick.
--Since the incident caught on video in which an IDF soldier shot in the head and killed a wounded Palestinian assailant lying on the ground, both Emad Abu Shamsiyah, the Palestinian who filmed the video, and Yehuda Glick, the far right-wing Temple Mount activist who called the killing 'horrific,' have received death threats from right-wing Israelis.