Quotes from Ayman Odeh

An Arab who works and pays taxes is good for everyone. An Arab who doesn't work and receives social security stipends is bad for everyone.

We in the Joint List are living proof that Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

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

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.

My goal is that Jews feel safe in their country.

Eventually, I moved from a place of anger toward the Jews of Israel toward a place of embrace.

I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.

Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.

I don't accept the Zionist idea.

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

No one is speaking about the Arab citizens of Israel.

My biggest goal became to bring the weight of and the voice of the Arabs into the Israeli political sphere.

Our beautiful homeland is enough for us, Arabs and Jews. If we turn her into a battlefield, she will spit us out.

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

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.

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.

I remember, I used to get off a bus, and if there was someone sitting in the station, I remember thinking maybe they were from Shin Bet and came for me.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.

I am an elected official; I was not elected by the Right.

Maybe for you in America, Dr. King has become boring because you hear about him so much. But for me, he is the man who has most inspired me.