Yasser Arafat

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by…

— Yasser Arafat

Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over…

— Yasser Arafat

We have absolute support from all our masses inside our occupied territories and even outside our occupied territories. The "War of the…

— Yasser Arafat

The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong.…

— Yasser Arafat

When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this…

— Yasser Arafat

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

— Yasser Arafat

I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation?…

— Yasser Arafat

When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic…

— Yasser Arafat

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you…

— Yasser Arafat

In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that…

— Yasser Arafat

We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to…

— Yasser Arafat

I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends…

— 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.

— Yasser Arafat

Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of…

— Yasser Arafat

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero…

— Yasser Arafat

I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American…

— Yasser Arafat

Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he…

— Yasser Arafat

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is…

— Yasser Arafat

The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...

— Yasser Arafat

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death…

— Yasser Arafat

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of…

— Yasser Arafat

Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer…

— Yasser Arafat

I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take…

— Yasser Arafat

It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman…

— Yasser Arafat

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

— Yasser Arafat