I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine. Yasser Arafat More Quotes by Yasser Arafat More Quotes From Yasser Arafat The Palestinian people have no national identity. Yasser Arafat destinyisraelmen Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. Yasser Arafat militaryinspiringfriendship All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend. Yasser Arafat religiouswarpeople 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 islamicgunfall 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 being-freegenerationsmoon 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 populationislamicisrael 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 israelwarmean 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 deathbloodpeople Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. Yasser Arafat terroristcall-of-dutycauses 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 wallsacrificegirl 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 israelblowwar The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. Yasser Arafat jerusalemflagsvictory Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat jerusalemislamicwant 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 landchildrenblood 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 disasteradministrationpushing 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 flagsindependentstruggle We are not the Red Indians. Yasser Arafat red [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 realeuropeyears 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 militarystrugglehome Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. Yasser Arafat blowtogetherworld
