Jásir Arafat citáty
Jásir Arafat
Datum narození: 24. srpen 1929
Datum úmrtí: 11. listopad 2004
Jásir Arafat , známý také jako Abu Amar , byl palestinský politik, předseda Organizace pro osvobození Palestiny a prezident Palestinské autonomie. Společně se Šimonem Peresem a Jicchakem Rabinem obdržel v roce 1993 Nobelovu cenu za mír.
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„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 until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.“
— Yasser Arafat
In a speech given on 6 August 1995, at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter, reported in Haaretz (6 September 1995) and in The Jerusalem Post (7 September 1995).
„This is my homeland; no one can kick me out.“
— Yasser Arafat
As quoted in The Daily Iowan (11 September 2003), Yasser Arafat's reply to Ariel Sharon's threat to expel him from the occupied territories. <!-- DEAD LINK http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/2003/09/12/Nation/Israel.Threatens.To.Depose.Arafat-463963.shtml -->
„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
As quoted at OneJerusalem.org (21 January 2002) <!-- DEAD LINK http://onejerusalem.org/itemDetail.asp?Language=English&ItemID=1110 -->
„What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.“
— Yasser Arafat
As quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/opinion/02karsh.html?_r=1&hp.
„All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.“
— Yasser Arafat
Many unsourced variations are attributed to Arafat. The actual origin is Richard Jeni.
„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
On Palestinian Authority Television (15 January 2002).
„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
In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996 as quoted in “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History”, by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, c.2008, pg. 682.
„I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.“
— Yasser Arafat
Quoted in the Associated Press (12 March 1979).
„Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans.“
— Yasser Arafat
Edward G. Abington, a former State Department official who is now a Washington consultant to the Palestinian Authority regarding the future of the Palestinian Authority http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17536-2004Feb29.html (2004-02-29) -->
„all our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations… Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: ‘Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.“
— Yasser Arafat
Statement from Wafa, Beirut (9 June 1974) as quoted in Journal of Palestine Studies (1974), p. 224.
„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. I’m a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel. Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can’t demolish five million Palestinians. They can’t annihilate them. We are not the Red Indians.“
— Yasser Arafat
In an interview published in "The New York Review of Books" (11 June 1987).
„Amanpour: Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to you, I understand. He has also spoken publicly. He called on you to rein in the violence. What do you make of that statement, and can you and will you rein in that violence?
Arafat: Are you asking me while I am under complete siege? You are a wonderful journalist. You have to respect your profession.… No, you have to be accurately when you are speaking with General Yasser Arafat. Be quiet! … You are covering, with such questions, the terrorist activities of the Israeli occupation and the Israeli crimes. Take care not to make these fatal mistakes. Thank you. Bye, bye!“
— Yasser Arafat
Exchange http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/29/bn.26.html with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour (29 March 2002) during Operation Defensive Shield
