In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

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.

Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.

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.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.

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