"(Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) has condemned, expressed anger, threatened to take retaliation steps and promised that Israel's security forces are capable of overcoming the attack. But there is one thing he has failed to do: He has failed to turn to the young Palestinians in a human, direct manner, offering them hope, in a bid to stop the acts of murder and outline a possibility for a better future for them and for us."
--Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua writes in Yedioth about the need to create hope for Palestinian youth.

"The truth should also be voiced clearly. Little can be done to prevent lone terrorists from carrying out their plans, especially when their motives are no longer clear."

--Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror writes in Israel Hayom that imposing harsh measures on the Palestinians because of the act of individuals, won't help and could make things worse.

 “I’m out of ideas."
--What US Secretary of State John Kerry told Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a phone conversation on the way to the airport after their meeting to discuss how to stop the violence came up empty, according to a US source.

"Our rules of engagement are more permissive than restrictive, but when you have a trembling girl with scissors in her hands, you don't need to riddle her with ten bullets. You could kick her or shoot her in the leg."
--Senior IDF commander says, "We learned a lesson from both intifadas – Palestinian deaths cause outbursts of violence.”

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A Palestinian shop owner in E. Jerusalem village of Issawiya was reportedly fined by the Jerusalem municipality on the grounds that the sign above his storefront did not accurately describe the store’s contents. He is one of a number of shop owners in the village who have recently been heavily and repeatedly fined for arbitrary reasons. 

“Such incidents only widen the gaps between us, the suspicions, they divide us into camps. Believe me, we have good relations here between Jews and Arabs. I am a friend of Avi from the falafel shop and Tami from the coffee shop, and of Yaakov. It’s such a shame.”
--Ahmed Asmar, Arab owner of a shop at the gas station complex on a West Bank highway where a soldier was stabbed to death this week. 

"But even in the defense establishment, there has been a feeling in the past few months that we are a bit too late. Because one also has to know when to give..."
--In a revealing analysis of the current situation, Yedioth's chief military analyst writes that Israel's planned gestures to the Palestinian Authority this week should have been made before a crisis broke out and, now, Israel must either make a real peace move or re-occupy the West Bank, because the violence will only get worse. 

"Even if we really try, the settlements and the occupation in the Territories will not become legitimate thanks to radical Islamic terrorists who strike in the heart of Paris…Neither will the world agree to support the continuation of the occupation, the settlements and our control of the Palestinian people under the disguise of a global war on terror."
--Peace Now Secretary General, Yariv Oppenheimer, writes in Yedioth that the attempt by the right-wing to gain a political profit at the expense of the dead and wounded in Paris is “nothing less than cheap demagogy.”

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The evictions were conducted on the basis of a lawsuit asserting the land on which the homes were built was consecrated in the Jewish religion over a century earlier. 
--Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson reported on the methods the settler organization, Ateret HaCohanim, employs to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Silwan neighborhood of E. Jerusalem. Ateret HaCohanim took Haaretz to court. 

"The dream of every spy recruiter could be the nightmare of intelligence chiefs and their government."
--Amir Oren writes in Haaretz+ how AIPAC rejected 'walk-in' spy, Jonathan Pollard, but Israeli officials couldn't resist the tempting opportunity he offered and harmed vital interests: relations with the US. 

“I’ve been shocked to hear claims of anti-Semitism and historical comparisons or analogies to the persecution of Jews in Germany in the ’30s and ’40s...In my mind this is a distortion of history and belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis, and the memory of their victims.”
--European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in response to remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

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45 days community service.
--The sentence Magistrate’s Court Judge Dana Cohen-Lekach gave to a Border Policeman who was caught on film severely beating an American-Palestinian. The state had requested a seven-month jail term.