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 ArafatWhoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
Yasser ArafatWe 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 ArafatStill, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.
Yasser ArafatWhen 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