WORDS THAT SPEAK FOR

THEMSELVES

THE REAL FACE OF ARAFAT!

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

-- Yasser Arafat (Washington Post, 29 March 1970)



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

-- Yasser Arafat (ANSA, Cairo, 25 July 1974)


"Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine over Jerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership."

-- Yasser Arafat (Associated Press, 8 May 1979)





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 (El Mundo, Caracas, Venezuela, 11 February 1980)





"The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine - from the Jordan River to the Meditteranean Sea and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat."

-- Yasser Arafat, in a speech at the University of Beirut (Sawt Falastin, 7 December 1980)


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

-- Yasser Arafat (Al Destour, 26 December 1983)





The Palestinian flag "will fly over the walls of Jerusalem, the churches of Jerusalem and the mosques of Jerusalem."

-- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O. (Jordanian TV, 13 September 1993)


"Not exceeding the beginning of the third year, we'll discuss the final status which will lead to an independent Palestinian state with its capital in what we call holy Jerusalem. It is a matter of time."

-- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O. (Associated Press, September 26, 1993)


"It is a revolution until victory, until victory, until victory."

-- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O. (Voice of Palestine, Algiers, 31 December 1993)


 
"Soon we will raise the flag of Palestine over the liberated Palestinian land."

"We will remain together until we reach Jerusalem, with God's help."

-- Yasser Arafat (Voice of Palestine, Algiers, 17 November 1993)


 
The agreement "will be a basis for an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestine National Council resolution issued in 1974... The PNC resolution issued in 1974 calls for the establishment of a national authority on any part of Palestinian soil from which Israel withdraws or which is liberated."

-- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O. (Radio Monte Carlo, 1 Sept. 1993. )

The resolution refered to is the "Phased Plan", which calls for the creation of a Pales-tinian state as the first in a series of stages culminating in the destruction of Israel.



"I know [declaring a Palestinian state] is a problem for the Israelis. So we'll declare our national authority, which is really a state..."

-- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O. (U.S. News and World Report, 8 November 1993)



The Jihad [Islamic holy war] will continue, and Jerusalem is not for the Palestinian people, it is for all the Muslim people.

You are responsible for Palestine and for Jerusalem before me [applause], the land which had been blessed for the whole world.

Now after this agreement you have to understand our main battle; it is not to get how much we can achieve from them here or there.

Our main battle is Jerusalem. Jerusalem. The cherished shrine of the Moslems.

This has to be understood for everybody and for this I was insisting before signing to have a letter from them, the Israelis, that Jerusalem is one of the items which has to be under discussion and not to say the permanent State of Israel! No! It is the permanent State of Palestine [applause]. Yes, it is the permanent State of Palestine.

And Jerusalem is our capital. It is your capital. It is the first shrine of the Islam and the Moslems.

-- YASSER ARAFAT (May 10, 1994, Johannesburg, South Africa)



"In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth [a reference to the "peace process"]. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy ... The speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories is only the first stage in the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands."

-- Yasser Arafat (The Jerusalem Post November 1994)



"I say once more that Israel shall remain the principal enemy of the Palestinian people not only now but also in the future."

-- Yasser Arafat (Speech in Gaza City May 1995)



 

Arafat Promises Destruction of Israel

February1996

Yasser Arafat estimates that the final-stage agreements between the Palestinians and Israel will ultimately bring about Israel's collapse. Arutz-7 has learned that an unpublicized meeting between Mr. Arafat and Swedish based Arab diplomats took place during Arafat's recent visit to Stockholm. Mr. Arafat's reported remarks, entitled "The Impending Collapse of Israel," opined that the massive import of Arabs to "the West Bank and Jerusalem," and the psychological warfare the Palestinians will wage against the Israelis will cause a massive emigration of Jews to the United States.

"We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem," Arafat declared, claiming, "Peres and Beilin have already promised us half of Jerusalem. The Golan Heights have already been given away, subject to just a few details."  (This was before the elections)

He further claimed that half of the Russian immigrants to Israel are really Muslims who will fight for a united Palestinian State in the "expected" civil war in Israel.

Arafat revealed his plan for the Palestinian takeover of Israel: "We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years, we will have six to seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. All Palestinian Arabs will be welcomed by us. If the Jews can import all kinds of Ethiopians, Russians, Uzbeks and Ukranians as Jews, we can import all kinds of Arabs to us." He added that the PLO plans "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; Jews won't want to live among us Arabs."

In a plea for pan-Arab support, Mr. Arafat told the Arab diplomats: "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 total Arab-Muslim domination!"

 

Mr. Arafat's meeting took place on January 30th, in Stockholm's Grand Hotel shortly after an official state dinner in his honor sponsored by Sweden's Foreign Minister in the hotel's "Der Spiegel Salon." No recording of the event exists; however, following an investigation in the matter that Arutz-7 conducted over the past few days, reliable Swedish sources as well as Murray Kahl, editor of Israeli & Global News, have confirmed the content of the meeting.

On violence against Israel:

"When we stopped the Intifada we did not stop the Jihad [Islamic holy war] to establish Palestine with Jerusalem as our capital.... We know only one word: Jihad, Jihad, Jihad.... We are in a conflict with the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration, and all imperialist activity...."

--- Yasser Arafat, in a speech at the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, 22 October 1996 (Yediot Aharonot, 23 October 1996). The Balfour Declaration was Britain's 1917 statement of support for a Jewish national home in the land of Israel.


"Are there no stones left in Hebron? Where are the stones and where are the mobs? Prepare yourselves for a struggle if the Israelis do not retreat from Hebron."

--- Yasser Arafat, addressing Arab legislators in Hebron, 22 October 1996 (Yediot Aharonot, 23 October 1996)

"War! War! Continue the struggle!"

--- Yasser Arafat, in a speech at the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, 22 October 1996 (Arutz-7 Radio, 23 October 1996)

"We sacrifice our blood and ourselves for Palestine!"

--- Response chanted by the Palestinian crowd to Arafat's above call for war (Arutz-7 Radio, 23 October 1996)

"There is no doubt we must be prepared for all contingencies."

--- Yasser Arafat, in a speech to the Palestinian legislative council in Ramallah, 10 October 1996 (The Jerusalem Post, 11 October 1996). The remark was widely interpreted as threatening future violence if his demands are not met.

"No one can harm the Palestinian revolution, for it will persist and struggle, struggle, struggle…. It is important that we organize our homes and our movements in order to endure the coming battle, which we shall begin. We must say these things because great battles lie before us, and it will now be more difficult than it was in the past… let us each commit one to another and let us commit ourselves before Allah and the Palestinian people that we shall lead the coming battle as we have led previous battles. An oath is an oath and a promise is a promise. The whole world stands by us, while they are alone. They are afraid, but we are not. We cling to the oath and the promise. The Palestinian people is faithful to its oath, the one which we swore upon the first day when the initial shot was fired and the first of our martyrs fell. I must say these things so that you will know where, how and in what direction our movement is heading. We are marching together with the blessing of Allah, my brothers, we are marching together to Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem."

 

(IINS News Service -Israel-8/7-GPO)
Following are remarks made by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yassir Arafat in a speech to his Fatah movement in Gaza on August 5, 1997. The speech was broadcast on Palestinian television on August 5, and appeared in the PA-controlled newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda on August 6.

Arafat States No Compromise on Jerusalem


"The Palestinian Authority has taken steps to actively struggle against the Israeli Judaization scheme... The Palestinian Authority is ready to restart the intifada in order to stop the assault on the Arab character of Jerusalem."
(Interview with the Algerian newspaper Sawt al-Ahrar on August 1, 1998)


Arafat stated the declaration will come with or without Israel's approval, and, "The guns are ready to defend Palestinian rights in eastern Jerusalem."

Arafat indicated that no force will bar Arabs from praying in Jerusalem,
"The Palestinian capital," and force will be used if necessary.

(IsraelWire-11/16-00:02-IST) Speaking at a Fatah function on Sunday afternoon, PLO Authority) Chief Yassir Arafat repeated more than once his statements of his intentions to declare an independent Palestinian state on May 4, 1999

"Our great Intifada (violent Arab uprising) went on for seven years. If they (the Israelis) don't want to continue on the path of peace, we will start it all over again, but I tell them we have made the peace of the brave out of conviction," Arafat told a crowd of supporters in Ramallah.
(IsraelWire-11/16-15:53-IST November 16, 1998)

   
 
 

 

 

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