Yasser Arafat Men Quotations

I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.

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.

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.

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

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.

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

I told Foreign Minister Ivanov that we officially accept the joint Jordanian-Egyptian initiative as well as the report of the Mitchell commission and view those documents as a basis for rapid and resolute actions towards ending the dangerous escalation of developments in the Middle East.

It's obvious that the Israelis were not ready to make the necessary steps, and take the necessary positions, to make a peace agreement possible.

He was the first U.S. president to say such a statement before the general assembly.

is more than realistic because according to the signed agreements ... our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999.

a victory for our people, for all the free and proud people and for every freedom movement in the world.

This was a very successful agreement, ... It is a very important start to achieve real peace and to avoid military activity.

We hope that we will have this agreement for the implementation of what had been agreed upon very soon.

This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.

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.