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Ayman Odeh [1975-0] Israeli

Rank: 103
Politician

Ayman Odeh is an Israeli-Arab lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Knesset, and currently serves as leader of Hadash, and head of the Joint List, a political alliance of four Arab-dominated parties; Hadash, Balad, the United Arab List and Ta'al.

Equality, Anger, Leadership

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Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.		101
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.		102
My people are from Haifa.		103
The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.	Equality	104
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.		105
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.		106
If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.		107
I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.		108
When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.		109
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.		110
Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.		111
I am very wanted in my homeland. I am part of the scenery, part of the region. I resemble it.		112
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.		113
The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.		114
Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.	Equality	115
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.		116
If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.		117
I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.		118
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.		119
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.		120
My goal is that Jews feel safe in their country.		121
There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.		122
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.		123
I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.		124
I don't accept the Zionist idea.		125
I am an elected official; I was not elected by the Right.		126
Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.		201
If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.		202
The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.		203
Every nation has a flag.		204
Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.		205
The Arab population does not want to turn inward and be isolated.		206
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.	Leadership	207
A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.		208
I have a lot of warm feelings towards the Palestinian people.		209
I come from a place of loving people - all human people.		210
Abu Mazen has no more hope for Netanyahu's approach. He's searching for a way to establish the Palestinian state. He doesn't want a militarized struggle with Israel.		211
I believe that the U.S. is the strongest country in the whole world and the country that supports Israel the most. I believe that it has the strength to push Israel towards peace.		212
No one is speaking about the Arab citizens of Israel.		213
Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.		214
We in the Joint List are living proof that Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies.		215
Our beautiful homeland is enough for us, Arabs and Jews. If we turn her into a battlefield, she will spit us out.		216
Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.		217
Arabs don't have to be the victims of the Jewish war between Lieberman and Netanyahu.		218
Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.		219
Attacking innocent people is always obscene.		220
According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.		221
A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.		222
The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.		223
Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.		224
When I read Malcolm X, I didn't agree with it all, but I inhaled it; I connected to his rage.		225
Eventually, I moved from a place of anger toward the Jews of Israel toward a place of embrace.	Anger	226
My biggest goal became to bring the weight of and the voice of the Arabs into the Israeli political sphere.		301
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.		302

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