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"Those who didn't want me in Brasilia, Israelis supporting BDS, got me in the capital of the world..."
--After Brazil refused to approve settler leader Dani Dayan as Israeli ambassador to Brazil, due to his opposition to a two-state solution and his support for settlements, Dayan celebrated being appointed instead as Israeli Consul-General to New York, where he will  focus on Israeli outreach to American Jews and business sectors.

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Quote of the day:
“If they're right, if the West Bank is, in fact, already part and parcel of Israel, if the occupation is permanent and Israel has, de facto, annexed the West Bank with its millions of Palestinians disenfranchised, denied basic human rights, and subject to an entirely separate and unequal system of justice, then we - all Israelis - are already living in an apartheid state.”
--Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston calls on Jewish Americans to act against the appointment of a settler, who opposes the two-state solution, as Israeli Consul to New York.

"Whoever encourages the violation of the law to please an extreme and violent minority could lead us to anarchy."
--Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in a counter-attack against Education Minister Naftali Bennett and other Knesset members, who called to end the investigation against the soldier who 'executed' the Palestinian assailant, Abdul Fattah al-Sharif. 

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“If our hands were strong, if we had governing power, then non-Jews shouldn’t live in the Land of Israel.”
-- Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, said, adding that at least the non-Jews served a purpose: “Who will be the servers? Who will be our assistants? Therefore, we leave them here in the land.”

"The current campaign is linked to the latest attack on human rights organizations. Behind them is a common and clear goal – to set a new standard, under which anything a soldier does in the struggle against Palestinians is legitimate."
--Haaretz+ military affairs analyst, Amos Harel, writes about how the attack of the right-wing on the IDF, for arresting a soldier who shot dead an immobilized Palestinian assailant, is a danger to the 'IDF’s moral spine.'

“It was an interesting slot to be in.”
 --Israel Association of Baseball director Nate Fish said about the IAB presentation of its Jewish-Arab ‘Baseball for All’ program shown at the AIPAC conference in between the speeches of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Right-wing Jews retweeted former right-wing MK Yinon Magal's Tweet, 'Happy Purim, Jews,' just after the release of the Btselem video that showed an IDF soldier shooting dead a Palestinian assailant who was lying injured on the ground. The Tweet was reminiscent of the quote by then-MK Hanan Porat, who said 'Happy Purim, Jews' after Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs. He, too, sparked a storm. 

“You see how more and more Israelis are being tempted to this way of looking at the conflict of abandoning their attempt to achieve some political, rational solution and rather they are more and more prone to fanaticism and fundamentalism.
--In an interview with EuroNews, Israeli author David Grossman, called the so-called cultural loyalty bill being promoted by Culture Minister Miri Regev “fascist,” supported labeling settlement products and blamed the government for the radicalization of Israeli society. 

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You Must Be Kidding: 
A 17-year-old Israeli stabbed to death a man riding his bicycle in Afula two months ago, because he thought the man was someone with whom he had a feud over money. The youth was indicted for murder Monday. Attorney Menachem Eyal, the lawyer of the family of the victim: “I don’t understand the issue of mistaken identity. You just jump on a man and stab him? Criminal terror is raging in the streets because people decide to take the law into their own hands.”

"This year, we brought fewer toy rifles and pistols; people are afraid of their children walking around with these things.”
--Toy store owners in Jerusalem decided to limit the sale of toy guns and knives for the Purim Holiday.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"The orange ISIS prisoner costume sold like crazy. It also has a collar of blood. It's really a hit. The costume is designed for adults, but there were also parents who bought it for their children."
--Eliran Ben David, who works at an Israeli store that imports costumes and accessories, noted the demand in Israel for an unusual Purim costume.

“We have a leader who is fighting only one battle: the battle for his own political survival. In the name of this battle, he is bringing us to a bi-national state and the end of the Zionist dream...I do not want us to become an apartheid state. I do not want to control another three million Arabs."
--Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who died yesterday, was considered remarkable in his vocal opposition to the leadership of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for his obsession with Iran and for not moving towards a two-state solution. These words are from a speech he gave a year ago before elections.

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“You get to the village and there you look for a house. You break a glass door or a window and pour the gasoline inside, or simply light the Molotov cocktail and throw it in...In order to prevent the residents from escaping, you can leave burning tires in the entrance to the house.”
--From the Jewish terror manual, "Kingdom of Evil," written by Moshe Orbach, who was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison. Orbach was arrested in July 2015 and indicted on July 30th, 2015. The following day, Jewish right-wing extremists made an arson attack on the Dawabsheh family home in Duma, killing the parents and their baby. 

"Here the regime has no intention of “supporting” the art world. It wants to buy it off. To domesticate it. To shut its insolent mouth, or at least compel it to deal only with “circuses” so that it’s thrown some crumbs in return."
--B. Michael writes in Haaretz+ that Israeli artists shouldn't let the state buy their silence, their collaboration, their fear, obedience and principles.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"We are not commenting on the issue."
--The response from Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon's office to a query about a Peace Now report that Israel has just made the largest land confiscation in the West Bank in recent years.