Top 73 Yasser Quotes
#1. Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Martin Schulz
#2. In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.
Noam Chomsky
#3. Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.
James Taranto
#4. This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
Tom Paulin
#5. [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.
Yitzhak Rabin
#6. Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that ... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.
Mohammed Dahlan
#7. There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
Leon Charney
#8. The Palestinian people have no national identity.
I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel.
Yasser Arafat
#9. I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday.
Leon Charney
#10. Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
Elliott Abrams
#11. In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
Elliott Abrams
#12. Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
John F. Kerry
#13. Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
Yasser Seirawan
#14. The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
Yasser Seirawan
#15. Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat
#16. Smile even if your burdens are awfully heavy.Smile even if your face is seized by wrinkles.Smile even if your teeth suffer from deformity Just SMILE
Yasser Kashef
#17. 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.
Yasser Arafat
#18. Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs, ... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#19. We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American administration, not only in my name, but on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Yasser Arafat
#20. Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.
Yasser Arafat
#21. Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty
Israeli sovereignty
over the holy sites
Yasser Arafat
#22. Do not worry solitude is friendly at least it is more bearable than the company of hypocrites
Yasser Kashef
#23. Creativity is the art of being yourself through all the possible means and ways.
Yasser Kashef
#24. The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromise.
Yasser Arafat
#25. Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.
Yasser Arafat
#26. 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
#27. All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
Yasser Arafat
#28. I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
#29. To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday.
Yasser Kashef
#30. Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat
#31. I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#32. How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.
Yasser Seirawan
#33. The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.
Yasser Arafat
#34. It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat
#35. Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to.
Kholoud Yasser
#36. We play among dense fields of sugarcane
Shaking a citrus tree to taste its rain
From scorching sun, we always flee,
Panting for an old shadowy tree
Yasser Kashef
#37. 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.
Yasser Arafat
#38. I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.
Yasser Seirawan
#39. You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.
Yasser Arafat
#40. 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
#42. Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
Yasser Arafat
#43. The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#44. We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#46. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.
Yasser Arafat
#47. What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Yasser Arafat
#48. Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.
Yasser Arafat
#50. We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
#51. Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
Yasser Seirawan
#52. Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.
Yasser Arafat
#54. Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.
Yasser Arafat
#55. Arafat had said that the womb of the Palestinian woman was a "biological weapon," which he could use to create Palestine state by crowding people into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Yasser Arafat
#56. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yasser Arafat
#57. 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
#58. Be unique in your choices ... As the nightingale among voices
Yasser Kashef
#59. I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat
#60. 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.
Yasser Arafat
#61. The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
#62. Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities.
Kholoud Yasser
#63. One day u will be the message ... a message for those who still alive ...
Fayrouz Yasser
#64. The pure heart that sorrow cleaves
Is more fragile than autumn leaves
Yasser Kashef
#65. Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.
Yasser Arafat
#66. Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
#67. In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Yasser Arafat
#68. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
Yasser Seirawan
#69. 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
#70. You are on your own now , you have always been & you shall forever be .
Omneya Yasser
#71. Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
Yasser Arafat
#72. 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.
Yasser Arafat
#73. Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
Yasser Seirawan
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