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 ArafatI am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.
Yasser ArafatWe do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
Yasser ArafatIt 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 ArafatNow 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.
Yasser Arafat