(Editor's note: All quotations are provided by IRIS [Information Regarding Israel's Security] To receive IRIS bulletins via e-mail, contact: iris@shamash.org )
"Oh my dear ones in the occupied lands, relatives and friends throughout Palestine and the diaspora, my colleagues in struggle and in arms, my colleagues in struggle and in jihad...Intensify the revolution and the blessed intifada...We must burn the ground under the feet of the invaders."
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--Yasser Arafat, in the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 16, 1998 |
"The rifle of Fatah, the rifle carried by the Palestinian people which ignited the revolution, will not be buried...Brothers and sisters, I swear, I swear, I swear by the blood of the jihad and the blood of our nation's martyrs."
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--Speech by Marwan Barghouti, head of Arafat's Fatah in Judea and Samaria, broadcast on Voice of Palestine radio, April 16, 1998 |
"The future is full of options... The Palestinian people expect a long and bloody phase of an overall struggle, in order to fulfill what has been agreed upon in Oslo. Israel is a state that cannot make peace, a state whose function is war."
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-- Palestinian Authority Cabinet Secretary Ahmad Abd Al-Rahman (Al-Ayyam, May 4, 1998. Translation courtesy of MEMRI.) |
"[The planned third phase of Israeli troop redeployment in the territories is] a matter of principle that would enable the [Palestinian] Authority to accumulate liberated lands... which would allow it to double its ability to confront [Israel] without harming the signed agreements or holding [renewed] negotiations over matters already agreed upon."
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-- from Statement of Our Position, the official biweekly of the Fatah movement. (Al-Ayyam, May 1, 1998. Translation courtesy of MEMRI.) |
"All options are open to the Palestinian people.... The Fatah movement did not and will not forfeit the military option, until all national lands are liberated, and the Palestinian independent state is established with Jerusalem as its capital."
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-- Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, in a speech in the Hebron region. Fatah is Yasser Arafat's mainstream faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 23 April 1998. Translation courtesy of Middle East Media and Research Institute--MEMRI) |
"If [Palestinians] do not regain their full rights and an independent state, we will not let any one in the region live in peace and security."
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-- Arafat aide Nabil Abu Radainah, Al-Ahram, May 12, 1998, via Reuters) |
"The rifle of Fatah, the rifle carried by the Palestinian people which ignited the revolution, will not be buried..."
"We must always be prepared to sacrifice our blood, as in the beginning--January 1965--as we continued, and as we will continue [to sacrifice]. Fatah is a movement of blood sacrifice.... Our people gave the world a chance, and unless the world takes this opportunity, violence and havoc will come."
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-- Othman Abu Gharbiya, Deputy Chief of the National and Political Guidance Bureau of the Fatah movement, speaking to Fatah members. (Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 9, 1998. Translation courtesy of MEMRI.) |
"I envy the martyrs and hope to become one of them."
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--Arafat, in an interview with Egypt's Orbit Television, April 18, 1998 |
Outpost - 8 - June 1998