Arafat Quote by Elliott Abrams

“Those primarily responsible for the current desperate situation of the Palestinian people have been their own leaders, from Haj Hussaini (the late Grand Mufti…

— Anonymous

Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will…

— Leila Khaled

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“I had taken office during a raging intifada, with Yasser Arafat running the Palestinian Authority, Israeli leaders committed to a Greater Israel policy, and…

— George W. Bush

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

— Silvan Shalom

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

— Jane Harman

Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences…

— Barack Obama

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

— Yasser Arafat

A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the Palestinians. The…

— Reza Aslan

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

— Mark Steyn

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the…

— Roseanne Barr

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not…

— Natan Sharansky