"We're cousins. We need to forget this nonsense about Arabs and Jews. We are all human beings, no matter what your religion is, we are one people. We give you a hand, you help us and we help you."
--Mazen Qaq, an Arab Israeli, who has offered 40,000 shekels to anyone who provides information that could lead to the capture of suspected Tel Aviv shooter Nashat Melhem.**

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"We told the officers that we are people, not numbers. We have no problem with a security check, but not in this manner."
--Hebron residents outraged after IDF assigns numbers to Palestinians who live near Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron.***

"By staying silent, by refraining from the kind of forceful, game-changing protest that the current situation warrants, American Jews are not only abandoning like-minded Israelis, they are betraying Israel itself."
--Haaretz's Washington correspondent Chemi Shalev writes that if the "waves of chauvinistic anti-democratic legislation and incitement" were washing over the US, Jewish Americans would not stay silent.**

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Two Israeli Arabs were forced to get off a plane before the flight home from Greece due to the demand of a group of Jewish Israeli passengers, who stood up preventing the plane from taking off until they did.***

"When prominent politicians, at the level of ministers and MKs, find it difficult to define a crime so heinous and cruel as an act of terror, it makes it difficult for the entire establishment to wipe out the scourge, such as the youth of "The Revolt Network" from the agenda of the Jewish and democratic State of Israel. 

--MK Yaakov Perry, a former Shin Bet chief, in a special Op-Ed in Maariv.

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"Sometimes you get sick of damaging property, etc. and you want to make a clear strike that will set the accursed on fire, then you just want to set fire to the house itself with its inhabitants inside." 
--From a document belonging to "The Revolt" network, the radical religious right-wing Jews who hoped to spark a war between the Palestinians and the Israelis in order to topple the government and create a Jewish kingdom. 

"Jews don't like to be tagged as the 'price tag' hooligans. What you hate done to you, don't do to your neighbors. Don't label all of the Arabs of Israel for the horrific murder."
--Right-wing Yedioth commentator Ben-Dror Yemini comes to the defense of the Arab Israeli community of Israel, unlike the country's Prime Minister, following the shooting attack by an Arab Israeli.**

8,462,000.

--Number of Israeli citizens on the eve of 2016, 21% are Arab, 3% are new immigrants.**

״For Americans, the hate evoked by Trump, and the popularity he receives when he incites against one group or another, are frightening. In Israel, these kinds of statements have become commonplace in recent years. Ministers and MKs alike have resorted to “colorful” nicknames from the animal world to describe Palestinians, and a vague warning about 'Arabs rushing to the polls in droves' turned out to be enough to win Netanyahu reelection.״
--Haaretz's Asher Schechter describes how Israeli right-wing politicians are far worse then Donald Trump.**

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The Israel Police have promoted a publicity video directed at potential religious Zionist recruits to the police force that seems to highlight police anti-terrorism actions, as well as showing clashes with Arabs, but places no emphasis on traditional police work: detective work, fighting crime and combating violence.

“I hope that this course will help to improve communication between members of the Knesset especially those who resent that we speak in Arabic in the plenary. And if they don’t turn into Arabic speakers after the course, at least I hope that at the least they will begin to pronounce our names correctly.”
--Arab MK Basel Ghattas, the initiator of the first spoken Arabic course at the Knesset. Arabic is one of two official languages of the State.**

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
--A quote by Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, posted by Israeli Ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal Caspi, on Facebook, following the passing of the NGO bill.**

“…they also sing songs similar to the ones in the video (‘Burn down the mosque’ and ‘We will avenge one of the two eyes of Palestine, curse them’), and while the Arabs shut themselves into their homes, the dancers chant ‘Death to Arabs.’ Not only are the police there, they also try to prevent leftists from recording the events.”
--Amira Hass describes a monthly religious Jewish event in the Old CIty and other reasons why Israelis should not be shocked by the ‘Wedding of Hate’ video.**

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“Professional literature to strengthen the IDF’s fighting spirit from Jewish sources.”
--The IDF military rabbinate’s description of the 25,000 books it bought for IDF soldiers, which include an illustrated children’s prayer book and “The Industry of Lies,” by right-wing journalist Ben-Dror Yemini.***

"If there’s one thing I regret as a citizen it’s that I and my generation, as well as the one before us, the War of Independence generation, were party to a conspiracy of silence surrounding the Israel Defense Forces in this country’s first 20 years."

--Israeli historian and fascism expert, Zeev Sternhell, examines why Israelis don't want to confront the ugly truths the Israeli human rights NGOs expose.**

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"It is known that all the acts they seek to attribute to Jews were committed by Arabs."
---Rabbi Daniel Stavsky, who participated in the radical right-wing wedding dance and was considered the 'Hilltop youth rabbi,' said the Shin Bet wrongly believed Jews were behind Duma arson-murders.***