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title: "8 Yasser Arafat Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-schulz/politics-is-a-dynamic-process-when-i-was-a-young-man-in-the-1970s/)

[Martin Schulz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-schulz/)

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> [Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yasser-arafat/not-to-forget-you-are-speaking-with-general-yasser-arafat-it-s-true/)

[Yasser Arafat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yasser-arafat/)

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> [In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ariel-sharon/in-lebanon-there-was-an-agreement-not-to-liquidate-yasser-arafat-in/)

[Ariel Sharon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ariel-sharon/)

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> [Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohammed-dahlan/be-certain-that-yasser-arafat-s-final-days-are-numbered-but-allow-us/)

[Mohammed Dahlan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohammed-dahlan/)

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> [Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/terrorism-exploded-after-the-camp-david-talks-broke-down-in-2000/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

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> [Yasser Arafat never wanted to make peace with Israel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ehud-olmert/yasser-arafat-never-wanted-to-make-peace-with-israel/)

[Ehud Olmert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ehud-olmert/)

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> [Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-taranto/yasser-arafat-remains-in-stable-condition-after-dying-in-a-paris/)

[James Taranto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-taranto/)

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> [In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-abrams/in-the-bill-clinton-years-the-foreign-leader-who-visited-the-white/)

[Elliott Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-abrams/)

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