If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.
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.
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.
