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
Yasser Arafat quotes about
Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.
We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.
We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.
I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.
We strive to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace, ... We don't want a breakdown of the peace process.
We demanded that the United States play a role in pushing the peace process forward and we thank President Clinton and the U.S. administration for that role,
We told him that we are ready to consult and discuss with him the items of the proposals but that they should not be the only basis,
We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one alternative: to carry on with the peace process. This is our strategic target.
We would like to reiterate that all sorts of armed activities should be stopped and there should be no more attacks, especially the suicide bombing attacks that we have always condemned. We will arrest those who have planned these attacks.