"It should have insisted on something like "Product of a bunch of lunatic paranoids that see anti-Semitism and Israel’s imminent destruction lurking in every corner."
-- David Rosenberg writes that the European Union was kind to Israel in labeling settlement products, noting that it didn’t take decades for the EU to slap sanctions on Russia and there weren’t labels reading 'Made in Crimea (Russian occupation').

"I'm sick to death of the justifications: Our terrorist as freedom fighter (Choose one: Yasser Arafat or Yitzhak Shamir). Our terrorist as a natural and legitimate response to oppression, injustice, hopelessness, evil, history."
--Bradley Burston writes in Haaretz that the 'The enemy of my enemy is love.'

"The next time Palestinians hide weapons in a civilian ambulance, the next time a stabber disguises himself as a journalist, the next time Palestinians shoot rockets from near a United Nations building, remember that officers from Israel’s Yamam (Special Police Unit) disguised themselves as a woman in labor on a wheelchair entering a hospital in Hebron in order to arrest a wounded suspect and kill his relative."
--Haggai Matar examines the Israeli media coverage of an illegal Israeli operation.

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"A taxi driver passing by saw the crucifix in my car and started shouting: 'He's an Arab terrorist.' They then started beating me with everything they had: sticks, chains and knives. I shouted at them that I'm a police security guard but it didn't help."
--Christian Arab Israeli security guard hospitalized after attack by Jewish Israelis who suspected he was a terrorist simply because he was Arab.

“Just before the right in Israel begins to celebrate, we must tell them: There is no connection whatsoever between the child with a knife from Hebron and the French Muslim with a suicide bomb in Paris. Just before the right in France and all of Europe starts to celebrate, we must tell them: Don’t you dance on the blood as well. The nationalism, hatred of foreigners, racism, deportation of refugees, isolationism and the war against Islam — your magic solutions will not solve anything.”
--Haaretz+ commentator Gideon Levy warns that if Israel continues with its policies, the child stabber from Hebron will turn into the adult suicide bomber of ISIS. 

"And as you know, we do not consider settlements to be part of Israel."
--US State Department spokesman Mark Toner explains why the US does not view the EU labeling of settlements as a boycott of Israel. 

"Dr. Bibi and Mr. Netanyahu say opposite things depending on the time and the audience.” 
--MK Essawi Freij (Meretz) yesterday. Arab MKs rejected Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's statement this week that he made "a mistake" when he said on the eve of elections that 'Arabs are flocking in droves to the polls.'

"You're ISIS with a kippah."
--Zionist Union MK Itzik Shmuli shouts at LEHAVA leader Bentzi Gopstein in a stormy Knesset debate about whether to outlaw the racist organization.

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During his interrogation, the military prosecution’s key witness was presented with seven photos. He had to select the accused, who was female. Six of the photos were of men. 

 "What kind of love for a child is it when he is sent to raid a Palestinian’s bedroom in some miserable refugee camp? Or when he’s sent to guard settlers who are taking over Palestinian olive groves? And what kind of love for a child is it when a settler mother forces her children to live in a hostile environment? And what about the love, which is the mother of all loves, of a Jewish mother who settles in the heart of Hebron?"
--Haaretz commentator Oudeh Bisharat responds to Jewish accusations that Palestinians educate their children to hatred and to reverence for death.

"And you heard people say out loud, fight loudly in the stairwell in the State Department, saying 'We are the United States of America - we will not be ruled whether it’s by domestic constituencies or Israelis!'"
--Laura Blumenfeld, who served as Senior Policy Advisor on Secretary of State John Kerry's Israeli-Palestinian negotiations team from October 2013-February 2015, revealed the Obama Administration's sense of frustration and humiliation in its dealings with the Netanyahu government.

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The Higher Planning Council of the Civil Administration agreed to retroactively approve two settlement outposts, Mitzpeh Danny and Neveh Erez in the West Bank.

“What urgently needs renovations is the work ethic of Israeli spokespersons and the relations between the White House and The Prime Minister’s Office. In reverse order, of course." 
 --Maariv’s political affairs reporter Dana Somberg wrote after the Israeli embassy in Washington told her that the reason that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was not invited to stay at the White House’s luxurious guest house was because “it is undergoing renovations.” Somberg checked and found that other state leaders had recently been guests there. 

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53%
--Percentage of Israelis who believe that one must kill a Palestinian who attacked an Israeli even if he were already caught and no longer posed a danger to anyone.