Yasser Arafat Quotes - Page 2

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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 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

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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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• Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Independent, Flags

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Marching On, Jerusalem

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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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• [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

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• I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fighting, Swear To God, Giving

  OneJerusalem.org, January 21, 2002.

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• It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, People, Accusation

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

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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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• 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

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• 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

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• All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Moving, Rights, Government

  Journal of Palestine Studies, (p. 224), 1974.

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• Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blessing, May, God Bless You

  Yasser Arafat's Speech at the Arab summit in Beirut, al-bab.com. March, 2002.

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Branches

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

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• It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Party, Israel

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• 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

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• The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Wall, Flags, Jerusalem

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Support, Forget

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

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• Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.

  Yasser Arafat

  Jerusalem, States, Palestinian

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• Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

  Yasser Arafat

  Law, Land, West

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

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

  Yasser Arafat

  Democracy, Democratic

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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