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Yasser Arafat Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.”
— Yasser Arafat, MIDDLE EAST: The Palestinians Become a Power
Tagged: Palestine, Arab World
“Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Blood, Revolution
“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
Tagged: Terrorism, Heroism, Martyr
“Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.”
— Yasser Arafat, The Jewish Wars
Tagged: Terrorism, Traitor
“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 Arafat
Tagged: Coexistence, Blood, Terrorism
“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!”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Jews, Threats, Blood
“Today 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. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Peace, Freedom
“Palestine is only a stone's throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.”
— Yasser Arafat, Land for No Peace
Tagged: Terrorism, Palestine
“I am ready to kill for the sake of my cause; wouldn't I lie for it?”
— Yasser Arafat, Proving It- Eschatology That Makes Sense in Four Research Reports
Tagged: Murder, lying, Terrorism
“This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Homeland
“Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.”
— Yasser Arafat, Quote Worthy
Tagged: Friends, enemies
“Don’t you know that this is a silly theatrical issue?”
— Yasser Arafat, An Interview with Yasser Arafat
“It is a revolution until victory, until victory, until victory.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Terrorism, victory, Revolution, The Night After The Revolution
“Patience has its limits.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Patience
“I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon.”
— Yasser Arafat, An Interview with Yasser Arafat
“Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defense.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Terrorism, Self-Defense
“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed….The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations…the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects….We don’t want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel’s destruction and nothing else.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Israel, Zionism, Palestine
“The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples would also be terrorism, and many of you who are in this Assembly hall were considered terrorists.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Nazis, Colonialism, Terrorism, Revolution
“The PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps....We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under Arab rule.”
— Yasser Arafat
Tagged: Plot, Arabs, Jews, Palestine
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