“We are sitting here with two populations, one of them endowed with all the civil rights and the other denied all rights. This is a picture of two classes of citizens that is hard to defend, even in the special context of Jewish history. The world will side with a liberation movement of that one and a half million surrounded by several tens of millions.”
--Then Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban told government ministers on June 14, 1967, a week after conquering the Palestinian Territories.*

“If there is no indictment, I will go public and tell everything."
--Former defense minister Moshe Yaalon implicated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 'Case 3000', the submarine corruption affair.*

Israeli authorities "have proven once again that there is no importance to human life when it comes to Palestinians."
--The left-wing human rights NGO Yesh Din, which represented the family of Antar Shibli al-Aqra, responded after an Israeli court gave a very light sentence to the Border Police volunteer who killed the unarmed man who entered Israel illegally looking for work.*

"Poll after poll prove that for the sake of peace, and for the chance to live without the threat of death or bereavement, the Israeli public is willing to make painful concessions, just like it did vis-à-vis Egypt and Jordan. This is the Right’s nightmare, its greatest fear."
--Yariv Oppenheimer writes in Yedioth about the willingness of the right-wing to let Israelis die in war rather than make peace.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
“Radical left-wing organizations like Peace Now and Yesh Din file petitions against settlements in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] night and day when they have no connection to the issue.” 
--David Shain, head of Likud’s youth wing, partnered with the Movement for Governability and Democracy to push legislators to submit a bill, which would prevent Israeli organizations from petitioning the High Court in the name of Palestinian rights and Israeli crimes.

You Must Be Kidding: 
At a park during a police-community relations activity, the policeman warned the children that they will hear gunshots during the demonstrations, adding they shouldn’t be worried. Four policemen from a patrol and riot control unit arrived on motorbikes and opened fire in the direction of the "assailant," and continued on shooting him after he fell to the ground – in order to make sure he was dead, as the audience was told.**

"No momentary political capital and the smell of elections in the air justify the violation of what was promised in the Declaration of Independence and does not justify incitement against a minority living within us. No momentary electoral interest of any functioning public is justified by a series of legislative acts that embarrass the Declaration of Independence or Herzl's dream."
--Opposition leader and Zionist Camp party chief, MK Isaac Herzog said in reaction to the passing of the Jewish nation-state bill by the Ministerial Committee.*

"[This bill] is a declaration of war against Israel’s Arab citizens and against Israel as a democratic and properly governed society.”
--Meretz Chairwoman Zehava Galon said at the passing of the nation-state bill, which revoked the status of Arabic as an official language of Israel.*
  “It is quite possible that it is precisely (Trump), the guttural, impatient leader, who lacks the knowledge and the ability to analyze history, who will be the one who will force us to deal with (our) fear. Without any glory and fanfare, there is not a bad chance that he will be the one who will help us find the courage not to be weak.”
--In Maariv, Dr. Revital Amiran reviews Zionism’s change after conquering the Palestinian Territories in 1967 and explains how US President Donald Trump might be able to bring about peace.**