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Yasser Arafat

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Yasser Arafat
Age: 75 †
Born: 1929
Born: August 4
Died: 2004
Died: November 11
Civil Engineer
Former Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Politician
Yasir Arafat
Yaser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa
Abu Ammar
Muhammad Yassur Ab-ar Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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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.
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Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.
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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.
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[Alexander Haig and Ariel Sharon ] casualties in this war were more than in all the previous Arab - Israeli confrontations. If you remember, it is the only war [in 1982] which hasn't a hero among the Israeli generals.
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Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.
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You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.
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I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.
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We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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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. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.
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We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
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Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites
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Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: Bye-bye PLO. After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: Bye-bye Brzezinski. Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?
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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.
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The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.
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