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“Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.” quote by Yasser Arafat — Download Open image

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

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I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One…

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

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Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking about the charters again, you have to remember that the Israelis should recognize first the resolutions of the United Nations, according to [one of] which they became a state. Israel is the only state which was…

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In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

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

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