Yasser Quotes

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

Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

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

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ~ Yasser Arafat

Once you hide the truth, truth will always be your unbearable burden. ~ Yasser Kashef

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel. ~ Yasser Arafat

Do not care for people and see who will care for you

Hence, you will know whether your friendship is false or true ~ Yasser Kashef

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege. ~ Yasser Arafat

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God. ~ Yasser Arafat

Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success. ~ Yasser Arafat

The most high level of freedom is death, when our bodies liberate our spirits in order to reach the transparent sea of light . Thus, do not fear death in your search for freedom. ~ Yasser Kashef

Cervantes told me history is the mother of truth.
Borges told me historical truth is not what took place; it is what we think took place.
So Billy Shakespeare was queer.
Ronnie was the greatest president in history, right up there on Mount Rushmore.
AIDS is mankind's greatest plague.
Israel only kills terrorists.
America never bombed Lebanon.
Jesus was straight. Juda and he were just friends.
Roseanne's parents molested her as an infant.
Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat deserved their Nobels.
And Gaetan Dugas started the AIDS epidemic. ~ Rabih Alameddine

They forget that the Woman is the source of mercy and joy
Many men do respect her greatness, except the playboy
We sail in life searching for fair equality
We should not focus on gender but our humanity ~ Yasser Kashef

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

People are like fingers, they are from one hand but everyone has its own shape. ~ Yasser Kashef

The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries." ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

Good deeds sometimes are a matter of overcompensation. ~ Yasser Kashef

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

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ~ Yasser Arafat

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs, ... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. ~ Yasser Arafat

You have pajamas with a dead Palestinian leader's face on them."
"I am aware," Gus said, trying not to fidget as Casey essentially stared at his crotch. "They're my Yasser Arapants."
Casey choked.
Gus waited.
"Oh my fucking god," Casey mumbled to himself. "You're like ... just ... like, this person. ~ T.J. Klune

In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. ~ Elliott Abrams

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

A smile is not only two curves at the corners of your mouth. A smile is a peaceful feeling in your heart that forces your gloomy face to be bright. ~ Yasser Kashef

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine. ~ Yasser Arafat

Let the perfectionist play postal. ~ Yasser Seirawan

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv. ~ Yasser Arafat

People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand. ~ Warren Mundine

If death is necessity life is a choice ~ Yasser Hakeem

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. ~ Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. ~ Yasser Arafat

Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to. ~ Kholoud Yasser

The Palestinian people have no national identity.
I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital. ~ James Taranto

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

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. ~ Yasser Arafat

Success is nothing without morals ~ Fayrouz Yasser

They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', said Arafat. Then he, and his guest, burst out laughing. They both knew that America had little or no involvement in the wars of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. But Arafat, at any rate, was happy to indulge the affliction of anyone who believed they had and use it to his own political advantage. ~ Douglas Murray

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. ~ Yasser Seirawan

This is my homeland no one can kick me out. ~ Yasser Arafat

Insult is like boomerang. Every time you throw it, it turns back to you. ~ Yasser Kashef

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions. ~ Yasser Seirawan

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem. ~ Yasser Arafat

If I loved you for no reasons I will hate you for more reasons ~ Yasser Hakeem

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

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl. ~ Yasser Arafat

We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed ... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations ... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects ... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else. ~ Yasser Arafat

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Dusting off your books means dusting your mind off. ~ Yasser Kashef

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend. ~ Yasser Arafat

What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. ~ John F. Kerry

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

With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr ... Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to ... in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation ... who turned his body into bombs ... the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland. ~ Yasser Arafat

The pure heart that sorrow cleaves
Is more fragile than autumn leaves ~ Yasser Kashef

You are on your own now , you have always been & you shall forever be . ~ Omneya Yasser

The PLO was founded three years before the Israelis ever occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and that the PLO wanted Israel wiped off the map. But in a ninety-second story, who has time to remind viewers that when the PLO was founded, Gaza was illegally occupied by Egypt, and the West Bank by Jordan, but Yasser Arafat did not mind those occupations? Where were the voices of the Palestinians then for their independent state? ~ Brigitte Gabriel

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience. ~ Yasser Seirawan

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth ~ Yasser Seirawan

Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. ~ Elliott Abrams

Life is too short to turn it into a court ~ Yasser Kashef

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

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

One day u will be the message ... a message for those who still alive ... ~ Fayrouz Yasser

Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

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 the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem. ~ Yasser Arafat

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

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. ~ Yasser Arafat

You carried me nine months before bringing me to life
You polished my talent when I was less than five
You always grant me mirth and surround me with angelic care
Hence, giving you the world's treasures are still not fair
God created you to be the source of mercy on this hard planet
You are the one who taught me speaking and every good habit
I always pray to God during prostration and when I kneel
That he bless your time and make me under your heel ~ Yasser Kashef

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