“This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the H...” — A. B. Yehoshua Quote

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.

For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.

History is not hatred.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Only love can heal hatred.

The children of Israel will not grow up in a state where some of its leaders sanctify hatred. I won't let hate win.

The refusal to snitch out of a pathological hatred for police is nothing new.