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Yasser Arafat
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“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.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in the Washington Post (29 March 1970)
“all our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations… Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: ‘Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement from Wafa, Beirut (9 June 1974) as quoted in Journal of Palestine Studies (1974), p. 224.
“I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in the Associated Press (12 March 1979).
“Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today 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. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations… We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Times, UK (5 August 1980).
“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 until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech given on 6 August 1995, at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter, reported in Haaretz (6 September 1995) and in The Jerusalem Post (7 September 1995).
“The PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps... We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under Arab rule.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech to Arab diplomats in Stockholm as quoted in the Jerusalem Post (23 February 1996).
“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!”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”, by Andrew Bostom, …
“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.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Palestinian Authority Television (15 January 2002).
“I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted at OneJerusalem.org (21 January 2002)
“They want us to pass a constitution? No problem! We'll ask Israel to provide us with one copy of theirs and we'll copy it word for word!”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Maariv, 13th August 2003 (Israel has no constitution)
“This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Daily Iowan (11 September 2003), Yasser Arafat's reply to Ariel Sharon's threat to expel him from the occupied territories.
“Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward G. Abington, a former State Department official who is now a Washington consultant to the Palestinian Authority regarding the future of the Palestinian Authority (2004-02-29) -->
“What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010).
“The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples would also be terrorism, and many of you who are in this Assembly hall were considered terrorists.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did you follow what [General [[w:Yehoshafat_Harkabi|Yehoshafat] Harkabi]] wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state. I’m a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel. Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can’t demolish five million Palestinians. They can’t annihilate them. We are not the Red Indians.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview published in "The New York Review of Books" (11 June 1987).
“Amanpour: Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to you, I understand. He has also spoken publicly. He called on you to rein in the violence. What do you make of that statement, and can you and will you rein in that violence? Arafat: Are you asking me while I am under complete siege? You are a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession.… No, you have to be accurately when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet! … You are covering, with such questions, the terrorist activities of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli crimes. Take care not to make these fatal mistakes. Thank you. Bye, bye!”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exchange with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour (29 March 2002) during Operation Defensive Shield