Yasser Arafat Quotes

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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 and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  War, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Islamic, Gun

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

  Yasser Arafat

  Religious, War, People

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• Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

  Yasser Arafat

  Friendship, Inspiring, Military

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Destiny, Men, Israel

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• We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

  Yasser Arafat

  Children, Blood, Land

  "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.

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• I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

  Yasser Arafat

  Moon, Being Free, Generations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

  Yasser Arafat

  Causes, Call Of Duty, Terrorist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Blow, Israel

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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 people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Girl, Wall, Sacrifice

  Yasser Arafat's speech at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (August 6, 1995), as quoted in "Haaretz", September 6, 1995, and in "The Jerusalem Post", September 7, 1995.

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• We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Struggle, Home

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Victory, Flags, Jerusalem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

  Yasser Arafat

  Death, Blood, People

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• Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Jerusalem, Want

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Blow, Together, World

  Time Magazine (New York), November 11, 1974.

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• The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Enemy, Attrition

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• This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

  Yasser Arafat

  Middle East, Palestine, Homeland

  The Daily Iowan, September 11, 2003.

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Goal

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

  Yasser Arafat

  Sea, Generations, Flags

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• We are not the Red Indians.

  Yasser Arafat

  Red

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  Yasser Arafat

  Thinking, Uprising, Giving

  Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  Yasser Arafat

  Order, Goal, Teeth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Marching On, Jerusalem

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