You Must Be Kidding: 
"We are not masochists and there is no reason we should keep doing that."
--Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon explained why it was refusing to give an entry visa to a lawyer from Human Rights Watch.

Israel's Police Chief, Public Security Minister Must Resign (Haaretz Editorial) In view of the incitement and lies these two spread immediately after the events in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, whose houses were all destroyed, they can no longer remain in office. 
Settler leaders should have been put on trial, not Azaria (Amnon Abramovich, Yedioth/Ynet) As a child, Elor Azaria was a victim of the education he received at home and of his political opinions. As a soldier, he was a victim of his service in Hebron. As a culprit, he was a victim of his advisors. 
With Supreme Court Picks, Netanyahu's Government Launches Anti-constitutional Revolution (Aluf Benn, Haaretz+) Israel's justice minister has created a court that will serve her political aim of perpetuating the occupation and annexing the West Bank without granting the Palestinians citizenship.
The new Supreme Court: more conservative, more right-wing (Tova Tzimuki, Yedioth/Ynet) After the four new judges selected on Wednesday are sworn in over the next six months, Israel will receive a court which is more restrained in its intervention in Knesset legislation and government decisions and more ‘sympathetic’ to the rightist-religious-settler agenda.
Israel's Public Security Minister Actively Fomenting anti-Arab Incitement (Or Kashti, Haaretz+) Conflict with Arabs is the lifeblood of the fourth Netanyahu government, the justification for its existence. That’s why ministers vie with each other to nurture it.
Keep religion out of politics (Yoaz Hendel, Yedioth/Ynet) The Reform Jewish movement’s protest will not stop David Friedman’s appointment as US ambassador to Israel, but it definitely harms the movement’s own status among Israeli society. 
Isaac Herzog Details His 10-point Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Isaac Herzog, Haaretz+) Israeli opposition leader's plan: Sides will agree on decade of calm, during which time West Bank will be a violence and incitement-free zone; settlement construction outside blocs will be frozen, with more powers to Palestinians – only then negotiations. 
Please all, please none (Yoav Limor, Israel Hayom) Logically, the claims of mitigating circumstances that were rejected outright in Pvt. Elor Azaria's conviction for manslaughter would never have returned as grounds for an easy sentence for a serious crime. 
A Glass Ceiling for Druze Women? (Eman Hasisi Amasha, Haaretz+) How about the ceiling put in place by the Haaretz writer who insists that anyone who doesn’t live according to her worldview is challenged.
Israel in Trump’s eyes: An asset or a burden? (Udi Dekel, Yedioth/Ynet) The annexation and construction policy, alongside an implementation of the red lines on Iran, may lead to an escalation on the northern and Palestinian fronts, which is set to clash with the US president’s cost-benefit calculations and with Israel’s strategic value.
In the name of political correctness (Dr. Eyal Levin, Israel Hayom) In a world where the basic values on which we were raised are blasted as outdated, any show of support for the soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist is a foreign language.
Who Needs The Hague When You Have Israeli Army Justice? (Gideon Levy, Haaretz+) There's nothing more Israeli than this court that gives a soldier, who killed a Palestinian in cold blood, a sentence fit for a bicycle thief.
Trump helped Netanyahu pave road for one-state (Orly Azoulay, Yedioth/Ynet) The meeting with Trump loosened Netanyahu from the shackles of the two-state proposal. Netanyahu doesn’t have to freeze settlement building, or face threats and reprimands from Washington. Most importantly, he no longer has to fake interest in a peace process based on two states. 
'The will of the people' (MK Benny Begin, Israel Hayom) Despite claims to the contrary, not every law passed by the Knesset represents the public's wishes. The High Court must be protected so it can in turn protect the rights of everyone.
Hyperbole Over anti-Semitism Weakens Liberal Opposition to Trump (Jonathan S. Tobin, Haaretz+) Be appalled by Trump’s stalling over denouncing anti-Semitism. But the president didn’t invent Jew hatred in America, and trying to pin the 'anti-Semite' label on him won’t work. 
Win wars, not trials (Boaz Bismuth, Israel Hayom) Any citizen would tell you that the role of the military is first and foremost to win and only after that to preach morals and ethics.
 

“It started in his family, which was swept up in the incitement around it and which raised a boy who shot an injured helpless person – practically corpse abuse – and it continued with the education system that doesn’t deal with the problem of semi-fascist content in the guise of patriotism, and then the political establishment, which incited a soldier who is unable to cope with the ongoing brainwashing, and it continued to publicly support the criminal act, and then the IDF, which ignored the wounded [Palestinian] man, who was injured and left in the street and killed like a dog.”
--Maariv commentator Ran Adelist writes that Elor Azariya, the young Israeli man serving in the IDF who shot in the head Abdul Fattah al-Sharif, an already wounded incapacitated Palestinian young man, was not the only one guilty for the execution for which Azariya is being sentenced today.*

“The president of the United States is talking like a tin-pot dictator, like an enemy of democracy, and the only people celebrating are Islamic fanatics, white supremacists, complete anti-Semites and one Benjamin Netanyahu.”
--In front page Op-Ed, Haaretz’s Washington Bureau Chief, Chemi Shalev, reviews Trump’s first month - and makes a comparison to Nazi Germany.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Only in two out of 17 cases, in which Israeli civilians attacked Palestinian terrorists who had been already neutralized or innocent people who were suspected of terrorists, were indictments filed, according to a document submitted to court.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"How is it that the laws of the Left are constitutional and mine are not?"
--Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) blasts the High Court for repealing laws the Knesset passed.*

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“It must be clear: If we extend sovereignty, the law must apply equally to all. Applying sovereignty to an area gives citizenship to all those living there...There are no separate laws for Israelis and for non-Israelis."
--Israeli President Reuven Rivlin declares his support for a one-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians all equal citizens.*