"Yitzhak Rabin once purportedly spoke of needing a passport to enter Gush Etzion. That seems unimaginable today. But such diplomatic formalities, in an on-the-ground atmosphere of cooperation, could provide the pragmatic flexibility needed in a partition agreement. "
--Haaretz commentator David Landau on the need to give up land for peace.**

“It’s unfortunate and worrying to receive yet another signal of the ongoing increase in extremism in the Orthodox education system that is funded by the state, which acts like an ignorant soccer team that is not prepared to accept even one Arab player. "
--Oren Yehi-Shalom, director of the NGO Israeli Education on the refusal of the Education Ministry to employ Arab teachers in religious Jewish schools.**

"Those who see anti-Semitism in the criticism being leveled on Israel because of its settlement policy undermine the battle against anti-Semitism."

--Justice Minister and chief Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni slams the Israeli government and the Canadian Prime Minister's stance on anti-Semitism and settlers.**

"Tattoo a Star of David on his forehead and parachute him into Gaza.”

--Right-wing MKs attack civics teacher who said the IDF is immoral.**

"It's an ostrich policy..."

--Justice Minister and chief Israeli negotiator Tzipi Livni accuses right-wing politicians of ignoring the reality.** 

'Nonsense.'
--How Israeli President Shimon Peres described the demand for Palestinians to recognize Israel as a 'Jewish state.'**

"What about the settlements?"

--Arab MK Ahmed Tibi yelled out during a historic speech by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Knesset that praised Israel at length and called critics anti-Semites.**

15 million.

--The number of Israeli taxpayers dollars disbursed to unauthorized settler outposts, even though it is prohibited.**

"The IDF is a brutal and immoral army, which acts with exceptional violence, unlike most other armies in the world."
--Words of a teacher at a Kiryat Tivon high school, which got him fired after a student complained.**

“I don’t want Jews to do to others what others did to us. I believe that Israel is the home of the Jewish people, so I want it to live up to those standards."
-- Manuela Grayson, a Jewish lawyer from London, joined a tour visiting West Bank settlements, Palestinian villages, E. Jerusalem and the Ofer military court.