Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. — Yasser Arafat

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

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all–out war, a war which will last for generations… — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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

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

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

Arafat had said that the womb of the Palestinian woman was a ‘biological weapon,’ which he could use to create Palestine state by crowding people into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. — Yasser Arafat

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

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. — Yasser Arafat

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,… we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat

We will make the lives of the infidels hell–millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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

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. — Yasser Arafat

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

The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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

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

The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today’s world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity. — Yasser Arafat

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented. — Yasser Arafat

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

Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state. — Yasser Arafat

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

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

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. — Yasser Arafat

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. — Yasser Arafat

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