Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

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.

My biggest goal became to bring the weight of and the voice of the Arabs into the Israeli political sphere.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.