"When you push an entire group up against the wall, relate to them as terrorists, demonizing them and trampling their rights without inhibition, in the end it explodes. No one should be surprised when that happens, when more and more people are pushed against their will into acts that they must not commit."
--Guess which group of people this quote was referring to and who said it in defense of that group for acts they allegedly committed. (Answer: See the next quote.) 

776,500.

"In a country as tightly knit and loquacious as Israel, it's long been axiomatic that even where state secrets are concerned, everyone knows everything...With one exception."
--Haaretz commentator Bradley Burston writes about the secrecy over settlement funding, which Haaretz+ is now breaking through in its new and extensive investigative report.

“(Yossi) Sarid did not believe in the political center, he despised those public officials who were adapting themselves to the ideology of 'this and that.' Of also wanting peace and supporting the settlements, of supporting human rights and supporting the occupation, of wanting to strengthen the periphery and also supporting massive investment in the Territories. Sarid would never have given a political speech about peace in Ariel (settlement), would never declare Jerusalem as united while supporting a Palestinian state and would not demand social justice within Israel while simultaneously accepting the lack of rights of Palestinians across the Green Line”
--In a moving Op-Ed, Peace Now Secretary General, Yariv Oppenheimer, writes that the biggest battle of former lawmaker Yossi Sarid, who died over the weekend, was against populism, against yielding to public opinion, to the position of the majority and the desire to please.

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Only 7% of the building permits issued in Jerusalem over the past few years have gone to Palestinian neighborhoods where 40% of the city’s population lives. Over the past five years, there have been 11,603 building permits issued, only 878 of which were for Palestinian neighborhoods.
--Haaretz+ reports on unequal treatment of city's residents, using information provided by Ir Amim organization.

"The creativity of those who combat against terrorism from Netanyahu's school (beit midrash) isn't outdone by that of an interrogator of Chinese dissidents. There are plenty of suggestions of oppression, most of which are for collective punishment..."
--Maariv political commentator Ran Adelist looks at the government's recent suggestions for dealing with the wave of Palestinian violence.

37.
--Percentage of Americans who support sanctions against Israel as a response to settlement-building.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
In an effort to stop Palestinian attacks on Israelis, the ultra-Orthodox Chabad movement plans to put up 100,000 billboard signs in E. Jerusalem with a picture of their deceased religious leader, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, alongside the word "messiah" in Arabic and quotes from letters calling for world peace and the need to observe seven Jewish mitzvoth (good deeds).

43.

--Percentage of Israelis who believe the State is not doing enough to bring to justice the perpetrators of the arson attack that killed the Dawabsheh family in Duma.**

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"It's the most anti-Semitic state in the world since the Third Reich."
--Father of one of the Jewish youth suspected of murdering the Dawabsheh family in the arson in Duma tells Yedioth.**

“Donald Trump is an (MK) Oren Hazan who has made money. He is rude, quick-tempered and addicted to the noise he makes as if it were a drug. Ben Carson is a (MK) Bezalel Smotrich with a PhD. He has dark views, screaming ignorance and problematic credibility. The possibility that one of these two will hold world peace in his hands is as scary as ISIS's sleeper cells in Molenbeek.”
--Yedioth’s top political commentator Nahum Barnea writes that it's harder to understand the extent of the damage posed by those who don't dress like extremists, but think like them. 

“An act of this kind, in addition to being non-normative and in contradiction of IDF values, is liable to lead to a weakening of the moral strength of the IDF and even of the State of Israel.” 
--IDF court writes in ruling on trial of soldier who beat a detained Palestinian on the back of his neck and yelled, 'Death to Arabs.' The IDF has seen a rise of violence by soldiers against Palestinians. 

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Asked why he asked for a tattoo of the Islamic State flag and why he has an al-Qaida flag tattoo, the Israeli man said he saw the terrorist groups' flags on the news and "thought they would make pretty tattoos."

"You are not Van Damme, not the police, not judges, and not God."
In a lecture to high school studentsabout human rights, Israeli State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan warned that people must not take the law into their own hands and attack a Palestinian assailant who no longer poses a threat.

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"If I knew that you're a stinking Arab, I wouldn’t have accepted your order.” 
--What the customer service representative at 'Class Deal' website told Fadi Grace, an Arab Israeli, who called because he did not receive his shoe order.