Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, popularly known as Yasser Arafator by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth24 August 1929
CityCairo, Egypt
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.
Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.
Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.
The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
is more than realistic because according to the signed agreements ... our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999.
Our duty today, the duty of all of us is to continue the work that I started with my late partner Yitzhak Rabin, to protect the peace of the brave and to continue and complete that work,
complete and immediate cessation of all military activities ... especially suicide attacks.
We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met him in Athens with the participation of the European Union's Javier Solana and we have no objection to meeting him at any time.
I would like to call on you to re-evaluate all our administrative, ministerial and security institutions after we have seen errors here and there, errors that cannot be hidden from the public opinion.