Yasser Arafat Quotes
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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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.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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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.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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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.
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What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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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.
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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.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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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.
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We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
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All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
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Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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Did you follow what [General 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.
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Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.