Mosab Hassan Yousef Quotes

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

How have the past four years served Israel or the Palestinians? We want a solution for the sake of humanity.

I love Israel, but I don't like it very much.

Every day, every week, you have another case of Israeli Arabs that are taking part in terrorist activity.

Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green line - a pain they feel the state of Israel is responsible for.

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

Israel's security is not negotiable for us; that is absolutely clear.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.

I like to fight in America.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds - and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sometimes, recently Israeli-Palestinian conflict is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was. Every decent man had to be against fascism, period. It is not as simple as apartheid or colonialism or racism or misogyny. It is not simple because the Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country, about the size of New Jersey.

A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel. He wants to do shows as a way of finding some comedic common denominator. When he proposed the idea to one of the officials at the Jenin refuge camp, the guy just stared at him and said, "This is not a joke to us. We don't think that laughing is the answer."

If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.