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 ArafatOur law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
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 ArafatYou are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.
Yasser ArafatPalestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat