Words matter. These are the best Ayman Odeh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I agree with myself on 80 percent of things, but when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning, I still have inner debates about the right thing to do.
Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.
The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.
The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.
The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that’s why it’s a struggle for all the population.
I come from a place of loving people – all human people.
The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated.
I am an elected official; I was not elected by the Right.
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.
A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.
I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.
In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They’re the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.
Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.
My biggest goal became to bring the weight of and the voice of the Arabs into the Israeli political sphere.
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.
Every nation has a flag.
Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.
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.
My goal is that Jews feel safe in their country.
I can argue like a Marxist about whether there was a global Jewish nation 200 years ago or whether it was just a religion. But this really doesn’t matter.
Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
Our beautiful homeland is enough for us, Arabs and Jews. If we turn her into a battlefield, she will spit us out.
When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.
The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.
There can’t be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.
My people are from Haifa.
Occupation is the Palestinian people’s tragedy, but also Israel’s present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.
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.
I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.
Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.
Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.
When I read Malcolm X, I didn’t agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage.
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.
I have a lot of warm feelings towards the Palestinian people.
