"Whoever dances at a wedding and celebrates the murder of a sleeping baby is not Jewish and not Israeli.”
--Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog repudiates the radical right-wing Israelis who, in a wedding dance, called for revenge and stabbed the photo of the murdered Palestinian baby, Ali Dawabsheh.**

“Breaking the Silence protects IDF soldiers in the impossible situation in which politicians have abandoned them."
--Former Shin Bet security services chief Ami Ayalon and Israel Police Maj. Gen. (ret.) Alik Ron wrote in an ad they published in Haaretz Hebrew edition.**

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“Arguments against land expropriation by the state” are one of the causes of the “Jewish-Arab conflict.”
--Precept of the Education Ministry’s rewritten textbook on civics.***

Clarification:
Yesterday’s ‘You Must Be Kidding’ quote was chosen based on the misunderstanding that the ‘drawing of the knife’ was a sketch of the weapon. However, the ‘drawing’ actually referred to pulling a knife out (as Ynet Hebrew reported), a sadly common incident these days, and therefore unsuitable to be a ‘You Must Be Kidding.’

“You have to accept Israel as a fact, in order to move on and not return to the cycle of losses. The message to the coming generations, especially the Palestinians, is that you have to include presenting the suffering of the Jewish people. Without this, it’s impossible to develop any empathy toward Jews.”
--Samir Kuntar from a fascinating interview with Haaretz from his prison cell in 1995.

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A Palestinian woman was detained at a Hebron checkpoint on Monday after she allegedly "drew" a knife at Israeli soldiers, the Israeli army said.

"We need to deal with the situation as a whole, with the whole situation, the atmosphere, the desperation, the frustration, the feelings of revenge, and that is a complete diplomatic treatment that in the end does not touch the lone attacker."
--Former Shin Bet chief, MK Yaakov Peri, describes how to stop the wave of violence by Palestinian youth.

“I am also breaking my silence.” 
--Former commander of IDF's most elite Sayeret Matkal unit and deputy chief of Shin Bet wrote in an ad he took out in Friday's Haaretz, where expressed his support for 'Breaking the Silence' organization and blasted those who want to outlaw it. 

"I, like everyone else who was there, knows that there are not a few immoral incidents and acts and that the control over so many people for so long cannot but corrupt and we need to stand guard so that this does not happen."

--Top Maariv political commentator, Ben Caspit, writes about the importance of 'Breaking the Silence' organization.

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--58%
Percentage of Israelis who think that the activities of ‘left-wing’ (human rights) organizations in Israel, such as Breaking the Silence and B’tselem, are illegitimate. 

“No, I don’t have a knife, but I have something else for you.”
--Powerful first person piece written by a young Arab university student, who was asked by a Jewish boy on the bus in Haifa whether she were carrying a knife.

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“I want you to arrest her. This is not okay.”
--A young foreign woman tells soldiers standing by after a Hebron settler woman slapped her in the face - after which the settler woman slapped her again and walked away, as seen on video. [Note: 'Breaking the Silence' organization was founded by soldiers who served in Hebron and wanted Israelis to know what violations soldiers and settlers were committing against Palestinians as part of their service in the West Bank. - OH]

“In 1995, they said the writing on the wall was blurry. They didn’t see, they didn’t hear, they didn’t say, they didn’t stop. They didn’t ask for forgiveness or do soul-searching. But the privilege of not knowing only works once.” 
--Noah Rotman, granddaughter of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, reacted on her Facebook page to the wave of insidious remarks against President Reuven Rivlin for his participation in a conference, where 'Breaking the Silence' organization was also present.**

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"Everything we said is based on facts and research and we don't see it as a problem or incitement. The public needs to see and judge who makes the blood of Israel's soldiers and civilians fair game." 
--Alon Shwartzer, head of Im Tirtzu's policy department, said about the video clip his organization produced depicting four leading Israeli human rights leaders as protectors of terrorists.**

"These people are heroes, they aren't traitors."
--Meretz party chief, MK Zehava Gal-On, responds to the lambasting of Israeli human rights NGO, Breaking the Silence, by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, Israeli TV 'Heritage Channel' 20, and numerous other Israelis. 

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"I’m dying to shit on his face, and after (age) 120 he will die on his tombstone, son of a bitch, even God does not love him."
--Reader's comment to a Facebook post by Israel's 'Heritage Channel 20' that slammed President Reuven Rivlin for speaking at the Haaretz Conference in NY, where the Breaking the Silence organization also spoke on a panel. 

“But what uplifts my heart much more in the whole Trump matter and statement, is the circus of Israeli response to that statement. In general this circus will be called the circus of blind self-righteousness. Let’s see, Israel has applied, in fact from the day of its founding, Trump’s very vision. Daily, hourly, regardless of its leader’s political orientation.”
--Haaretz’s Benny Ziffer writes that Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims from the US has been implemented for years in Israel.