I am not some intellectual hoping to be understood a century from now. I'm a political leader. I have to stand in front of my community. If I am a metre too far out in front of the people, I'll lose them.
I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.
If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.
The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.
I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.
A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.
