Yasser Arafat Quotes

The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

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

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

We are not the Red Indians.

I'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.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

Not to forget, you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. It's true that I am an engineer. But also I am a general. And I am religious. I believe that no one can approach me except God.

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

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

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

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

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

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.

Our 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.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.

Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.

Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

I had support - I had started it, not to forget.

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...

I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.

Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

It is another face in the new atmosphere of many leaders inside Israel. No doubt it is something new. Actually, Ezer Weizman is a Palestinian. He was born in Haifa.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.