Latest Yasser Arafat Quotes from Interviews

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• Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.

  Yasser Arafat

  Children, Return Back, Brave

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I had support - I had started it, not to forget.

  Yasser Arafat

  Support, Forget

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.

  Yasser Arafat

  Heart, Thinking, Difficult Situations

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.

  Yasser Arafat

  Religious, Believe, Forget You

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

  Yasser Arafat

  Democracy, Democratic

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Effort, Groups, Made

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Leader, Atmosphere

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon.

  Yasser Arafat

  Order, Receiving, Ariel

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

  Yasser Arafat

  Borders, Accepting, Force

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Community, Challenges

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• 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

• We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza.

  Yasser Arafat

  Independent, Moments, States

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

  Yasser Arafat

  Strong, Usa, America

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them."

  Yasser Arafat

  United States, Administration, Speak

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Mistake, Suicidal

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• We are not the Red Indians.

  Yasser Arafat

  Red

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• [Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.

  Yasser Arafat

  Real, Years, Europe

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

  Yasser Arafat

  Reality, Facts, Palestinian

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Independent, Rights

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  Men, Israel, Vision

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• 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 created by one of the United Nations resolutions.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Trying, Cost

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Bye, America

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

  Yasser Arafat

  Reality, Volcanoes, Departure

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

  Yasser Arafat

  Administration, Pushing, Disaster

  Source: www.nybooks.com

• I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Party, Men

  Source: www.nybooks.com