“We were, as Arabs in Israel, educated not to leave our villages, in or...” — Sayed Kashua Quote

“We were, as Arabs in Israel, educated not to leave our villages, in order to protect our identity.”

“Americans are connected to the situation in the West Bank and Gaza and Israel because, generally speaking, Jewish Americans were always there, and many American Jewish people connect their nationality to the Israeli one.”

“Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates - so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?”

“Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.”

“The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!”

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