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“האחדות היא דרכנו לירושלים בירת מדינת פלסטין.”
“אדם שנלחם על מולדתו על אף שפוגע בחפים מפשע אינו טרוריסט.”
“How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.”
“Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.”
“The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.”
“We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.”
“The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.”
“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.”
“It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”