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 ArafatThe Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser ArafatI'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.
Yasser ArafatThe 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