Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Military
Mistake
Junta
Power
Suicidal
Fatal
Israeli
Arrogance
Complexes
Complex

More quotes by Yasser Arafat

Image
What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Yasser Arafat
Image
In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
Yasser Arafat
Image
Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.
Yasser Arafat
Image
If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
Yasser Arafat
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
Image
We are not the Red Indians.
Yasser Arafat
Image
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
Image
Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.
Yasser Arafat
Image
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat
Image
I had support - I had started it, not to forget.
Yasser Arafat
Image
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
Image
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
Image
[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.
Yasser Arafat
Image
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
Image
Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.
Yasser Arafat
Image
This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
Yasser Arafat
Image
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat
Image
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.
Yasser Arafat