"...(it) is the sad historical irony that, of all nations, the one bragging about his success in turning away survivors of genocides and brutal dictatorships one day after International Holocaust Day is none other than the Prime Minister of Israel.
--Haaretz's Asher Schechter writes about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Twitter message expressing support for US President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the Mexican border.*

You Must Be Kidding: 
Jared Kushner's name appeared on the website of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces as a member of the national board until just two days ago. Kushner is the son-in-law and personal advisor of the US President. A day after Haaretz submitted questions both to the organization and to a spokeswoman for the Kushner family about his continued involvement on the board, it was suddenly removed.**

“Was the war really conducted in a negligent manner, or perhaps Netanyahu and (former defense minister Moshe) Ya'alon actually demonstrated responsibility and caution? After all, they knew and understood, as well as the chief of staff and his generals, that fast moves - as (Minister Naftali) Bennett urged: "Be galloping horses" - will cause many deaths that Israeli society finds difficult to deal with… And there is another truth that must be admitted: neither Hamas nor its tunnels pose a strategic threat to Israel's military power.”
--Maariv’s Intel commentator Yossi Melman writes that while the State Comptroller’s report may make look Minister Naftali Bennett look good for exposing that information was kept from the security cabinet, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Bennett was strategically right in pushing for the destruction of the Hamas tunnels.*

Yesterday, Abed Dawiat, a 20-year-old Palestinian from E. Jerusalem, got an 18-year prison sentence - the longest given in Israel for manslaughter from stone-throwing. Dawiat threw a stone at the car of an Israeli man, who lost control, crashed into a pole and died.
Today, the Israeli military prosecution is expected to seek a 3-5 year sentence for Sgt. Elor Azariya, 20, who was convicted [only] of manslaughter. Azariya extra-judicially shot in the head and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian assailant who had already been laying on the ground incapacitated, wounded and unmoving for 11 minutes.

"Almaleh was fired because she did something much more dangerous and subversive: the courage to not make a distinction between Jew and Arab. Almaleh sees people without reference to their ethnicity or national affiliation. That is a genuinely intolerable sacrilege. Khen Almaleh is Satan. 'I too would have run if I were being forced out of my home in order to build a community for people more powerful than I,' she wrote. Whoa! She doesn’t care if the perpetrator is Arab. She doesn’t care if the “more powerful” people are Jews. She doesn’t care about the Zionist enterprise. She has empathy for the underdog, despite his being Arab and her being Jewish. That is not merely justifying the murder of a policeman. That is genuinely dangerous.”
--Haaretz commentator Rogel Alpher writes about the firing of an Army Radio DJ for expressing sympathy with a Bedouin man who ran over a policeman who had come to demolish his home. (Later, the autopsy revealed that he was shot in the leg which likely caused him to lose control of the car and hit the policeman.)** 

You Must Be Kidding: 
"I hate leftists more than I hate Arabs. Arabs are supporting their people and their land. Leftists are Jews who hate their own people, they are against their own people, this is why I hate leftists. They are self-righteous and they don’t live in the reality. But in their heart, they know that it’s not possible for there to be equal rights between Jews and Arabs."
--Sapir Sabah, the high-school student who brought about the firing of her left-wing teacher, gave an interview to Mako.**