Zitat des Tages von Yasser Arafat:
Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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.
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.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and proceed with reconstruction and the rebuilding of infrastructures.
Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
As long as we have decided to coexist in peace, we must do so on a firm basis that will withstand time and for generations.
I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.
