I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.

Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.

Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.