Ambivalent Quotes of the Day

"I swore since I can remember, I'm not going to let anyone kill a Jew, just because he's a Jew," Avi Dichter, then (2003) the head of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.

"I learned, 'Remember and don't forget.' I drank it like mother's milk. It meant that Jews shouldn't be killed, but it also means that we don't kill others. You need strength to defend Israel, and on the other hand, to be a human." - Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, military chief of staff from 2002 to 2005.