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
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.
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.
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!
The negotiators will likely continue negotiation sessions, and only after that President Clinton will decide on a date when he can invite the parties to a meeting in Washington.
I hope this will close the chapter forever,
I hope that (Netanyahu) will go to Washington with a positive response to the American initiative, and not to try again to open dialogue, to waste time,
I told Foreign Minister Ivanov that we officially accept the joint Jordanian-Egyptian initiative as well as the report of the Mitchell commission and view those documents as a basis for rapid and resolute actions towards ending the dangerous escalation of developments in the Middle East.
This was a very successful agreement, ... It is a very important start to achieve real peace and to avoid military activity.
We cannot confine the talks to security issues, ... All issues should be discussed with Ross in order to reach positive results.
to give Arafat a nudge, no -- more than that -- a push.
complete and immediate cessation of all military activities ... especially suicide attacks.
is more than realistic because according to the signed agreements ... our state should have been declared by 1998 or 1999.
This confirms what I have said from the beginning, that this is an attempt to avoid the accurate and honest implementation of what has been agreed upon,
This brutality, this arrogance is moved by a supremacist mentality, a mentality of racial discrimination.