"Leaders can deceive, steal, destroy countries and abuse citizens, but only on the condition that their most horrendous acts are carried out politely, in clean language, when they are dressed in suits and ties, and delicately holding the stem of a tall glass of wine with a napkin under it. Abbas can’t be a member of that club, which is reserved only for real leaders who rule real countries. Again and again he tries to muscle his way in, and each time the bouncers kick him out."
--Haaretz journalist Zvi Bar'el accuses world leaders of being hypocrites.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"Thirty-four seconds. That’s how much time passed between the start of the stabbing attack in which Adiel Coleman was murdered Sunday and the moment the police arrived and killed the assailant, Abed al-Rahman Bani Fadel."
--Haaretz+'s Jerusalem Affairs reporter, Nir Hasson, writes that the police detention of 8 Palestinian passersby and shopkeepers for not stopping or intervening in the murder of Coleman, which would put them at risk for being mistaken for the terrorist, is a cruel demand and a a test case for raising the legal threshold for preventing a crime.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
After 3,000 years in which the Ein Hanya spring was open to and frequented by local Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to set up a roadblock nearby which will prevent thousands of residents from the adjacent Palestinian villages of al-Walaja and Battir and environs from reaching the site, writes Naama Riba in Haaretz+.

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