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. Ayman Odeh More Quotes by Ayman Odeh More Quotes From Ayman Odeh Our challenge, number one through five, is to increase the number of people who vote. Ayman Odeh world What makes people vote is the hope of change, we have been ceding hope again and again. But we are 20% of the population. We can prevent the right from forming a government. Ayman Odeh top-news Arabs alone cannot make a democracy strong. It has to be Arabs and Jews, my dream is one day we will build a real Arab-Jew party, and I tell Jews to come join us and build a true democratic party in this country. Ayman Odeh top-news We want this government which led all of us, Jews and Arabs, to a dead end, not to continue, but we are not in Herzog's pocket. Ayman Odeh world We had a successful formula in the '90s with the Rabin government, we united those marginalized and threatened, and we seek partnership with Jews too. Ayman Odeh world The agenda of any government will be a Zionist agenda. It will continue with the occupation, it will continue with the settlements, we can't be part of such a government. Ayman Odeh world This is a state of the tycoons against all the disadvantaged in the country. Ayman Odeh world Attacking innocent people is always obscene. Ayman Odeh always attacking innocent people I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it. Ayman Odeh i-am very homeland scenery 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. Ayman Odeh understand leadership doubt mistake The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population. Ayman Odeh why equality democracy struggle My people are from Haifa. Ayman Odeh people 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. Ayman Odeh mirror myself look morning Every nation has a flag. Ayman Odeh every-nation flag every nation When I read Malcolm X, I didn't agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage. Ayman Odeh read agree rage connected Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs. Ayman Odeh arabs personally campaign against 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. Ayman Odeh name place friends islam If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel. Ayman Odeh solution stand real pressure I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel. Ayman Odeh old city me israel When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X. Ayman Odeh malcolm-x began career political
