"Abu Ubaida."
--The name of a street in E. Jerusalem that was recently changed, it appears because it is also the name of a spokesman for Hamas' military wing, which has enjoyed a surge in popularity among Palestinians in recent weeks, amid Operation Protective Edge.**

"My generation is the era of state-paid, indictment-immune rabbis counseling hatred, preaching racism, inciting bloodshed, exalting war, degrading democracy, sanctifying inequality, forbidding compromise, undermining solutions."
--Haaretz+ commentator Bradley Burston writes that Israel will be better off when his generation is dead.**

"Unfortunately, it's not nice to be an Arab in Israel these days."
--Social Affairs Minister Meir Cohen tells Bedouin he visited in south.**

“1,000 flames will not extinguish the love.”
--Words on a sign held by left-winger demonstrating against the right-wing Jews from "Lehava", who demonstrated outside a wedding of a Jewish woman and an Arab man. Lehava is both a Hebrew word meaning “flame” and a Hebrew acronym for the organization "Preventing Assimilation in the Holy Land.")**

"Dangerous processes are taking place in Israel. Because of the desperation and anxiety, nationalism and racism broke out at once. We are losing our home to self-hatred."
--Israeli author David Grossman at a rally Saturday night calling for diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians and against racism and incitement against Arab citizens.**

"The relations with the US represent a strategic and economic asset for the citizens of Israel and this government has succeeded in ruining that."
--Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog breaks his silence over Operation Protective Edge and slams the Netanyahu government for harming relations with the US.**

"We are being updated from Hamas. Its embarrassing."
--Senior intelligence official tells Ynet that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is keeping cabinet ministers in the dark about the Cairo talks.**

"This may be a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy." 
--Prof. Daphna Canetti of University of Haifa on the Israeli discovery that alcohol reduces war-induced anxiety.**

"We will devote the first week of school and the whole school year to address the scourge of racism, and talk to students about aspects of tolerance, acceptance of others and the eradication of racism in society." 
--Education Minister Shai Piron made plans to battle the "unthinkable expressions of racism and incitement that came up during Operation Protective Edge."**

"The inability to decide on a compromise (sorry, but negotiations such as this require that each side compromise on something) means the negotiations will explode. Exactly like with negotiations with the Palestinian Authority."
--Maariv commentator Ran Adelist says that Israeli leaders are 'saving their political skin' making them unable to do the obvious for a long-term truce: compromise.**