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. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
We have absolute support from all our masses inside our occupied territories and even outside our occupied territories. The "War of the Camps" [in… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups]. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share
