Yasser Arafat
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.Collection: Peace
The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity.Collection: War
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.Collection: Failure
I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Collection: Peace
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.Collection: Freedom
I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.Collection: Peace
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.
I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.
As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations.
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace' and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.
I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and proceed with reconstruction and the rebuilding of infrastructures.
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...Collection: War
All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.Collection: Religious
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.Collection: Friendship
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!Collection: Children
I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.Collection: Moon
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.Collection: War
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.Collection: Girl
We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.Collection: Military
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.Collection: Death
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.Collection: Islamic
The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...Collection: Struggle
You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.Collection: Sea
The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.Collection: War
We are not the Red Indians.Collection: Red
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.Collection: Struggle
Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.Collection: Administration
The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.Collection: Strong
The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.Collection: Military
Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.Collection: Military
What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.Collection: Heart
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.Collection: Two
We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name, but on behalf of the Palestinian people.Collection: Condolences
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.Collection: Children
I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.Collection: Doubt