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"You're just proving that you are the ones here who are the terrorists."
--Oryan Ben-Uliel, wife of Amrama, the main suspect in the murder of three members of the Dawabshe family, responded as she walked past the supporters for the murdered Dawabshe family, who chanted "murderers" at her. They responded shouting "God is great." 

"The bill emits a McCarthyite stench. Its sponsors’ goals are clear and well known: to harass Arab Knesset members, who serve as a bridge between the Arab community and state agencies."
--Haaretz Editorial calls on MKs "who still see the right to vote and to be elected as a sacred and fundamental right...even when the words and actions of the minority’s elected representatives aren’t to the liking of the ruling majority" to vote against the 'Suspension Bill'.'*

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Travel agents who were at a meeting with the Tourism Ministry’s director genera Amir Halevy understood that the ministry intends to cut grants allotted to Israeli travel agencies whose groups sleep over in Bethlehem. 

"My peers and I don’t need any more multi-million dollar ventures to save us. What we need is for the community to wake up. What we need is for the community to stop willfully blinding itself to the disastrous reality of holding millions of Palestinians under military occupation."
--Simone Zimmerman, a young Jewish American, rejects the idea that to save the Jewish future and Israel’s public image, Jewish young people need to be engaged in “universal do-gooding," as Haaretz+ commentator Ari Shavit suggested.*

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A campaign organized by a new settler group of comprising so-called moderate settlements adjacent to the road between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea has released a video on Facebook comparing EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen to Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer from the film "Silence of the Lambs" because of the EU's aid in giving temporary housing to Palestinian Bedouin living in that corridor.**

--Said Prof. Ami Volansky, former Education Ministry chief scientist, who was ousted by far right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Bennett also cancelled Volansky's racism index project, whose goal was to enable teachers or principals to measure the level of racism in their classroom or school, and then devise ways of dealing with it.

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"Netanyahu is the leader of the Israbluff camp. Everything about him is pretend. In the next election campaign we [Yisrael Beytenu] will not pledge our support to you as prime minister. We are the true Right, the real nationalist camp -- not you."
--Hardline right-wing leader of Yisrael Beiteinu, MK Avigdor Lieberman, said Netanyahu isn't right-wing enough.**

"In my farewell letter to the (Foreign) Ministry I wrote: 'The government leaders have endorsed policies that outrage me… I have a hard time explaining them honestly.' I did not expect that after five years, over the course of which we faced two wars and two elections, Israel’s situation would deteriorate beyond recognition."
--Former Israeli diplomat Ilan Baruch examines where Israel has gone in the last five years and where it needs to go.*

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Investigator: You’re sure Sharaf was with you during that terror attack?
Tamimi: Yes, I’m sure Sharaf was with us.
Investigator: You’re lying, because he had a broken leg.
Tamimi: He may have had a broken leg. I don’t remember.
Investigator: Maybe he was with you only in planning to attack the military outpost, but not during the execution?
Tamimi: I’m sure he took part in the planning but by God I don’t remember if he was there at the execution, because you say he had a broken leg.
--A report by Haaretz+'s Chaim Levinson reveals how the IDF military prosecution, headed by Lt. Col. Maurice Hirsch, a resident of the settlement Efrat, continues to have detained Palestinians questioned after they have proven to be false witnesses, who have incriminated innocent people. Those people, who are held in prison for months during the proceedings, sometimes agree to plea bargains just to be sure they will get out of jail.**

“Why? Because the parliament could. It was a ‘military government’ of the left-wing parties.”
--Expressing reservations about the 'Suspension Bill,' which would allow suspending MKs on ideological grounds, MK Benny Begin tells how his father was suspended in the Fifties.**

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A gay Iranian poet who fled his homeland after harassment and arrest has requested asylum in Israel.*

"I don’t feel I need to deny my ancestry and my roots for me to declare and prove loyalty to Israel. My recognition of, and pride in my roots does not pose a threat to Israel’s security, nor should it be considered an ‘attack’ on it - it’s just a fact."
--Rita Khoury, a Palestinian citizen of Israel (commonly known as an Arab-Israeli), is a graduate of the Technion and an information systems engineer.

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The prosecution for Israel’s military court refused to allow the family of imprisoned Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq to visit him at an Israeli hospital as al-Qiq’s hunger strike reached 90 days because it said they were “dangerous to Israeli security." Yet, it reportedly allowed two Hamas prisoners to visit him, ostensibly to convince him to stop his hunger strike. Al-Qiq is protesting being held without charges.