Sayed Kashua Quotes

We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I'm not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides.

There's no reason we can't all live harmoniously together, and that's what I would say to the head of Iran.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Enduring peace will come about, not by countries continuing to threaten another, but only through an honest effort to create mutual trust.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

The sword is too much in evidence among Mussalmans [Muslims]. It must be sheathed if Islam is to be what it means—peace.

There is some tension but at the end of the day you have to reconcile.

The old notion: security brings peace. The new notion: peace brings security.

There is no way to produce peace at the expense of anyone’s freedom.

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.