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Danny Keren <dzk@cs.brown.edu> writes:

>Subject: Re: Arafat's Plane Missing in Libyan Desert
>Message-ID: <1992Apr8.133228.18708@cs.brown.edu>
>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:32:28 GMT

>Most recent - sources in Libya say Arafat survived the crash, although
>some of the plane's crew were killed.

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I think it is worth bringing Sam Cramer's collection of Arafat's
quotes to the attention of readers.  Who is this new media hero?  
How quickly the media and the State Department forget his terrorist 
activities, his ordering the murder of an US Ambassador, his 
ordering attacks on innocent children.

Here is the collection:


---
Arafat on PLO "recognition" of Israel:

	Q: ``Some people say that the Palestinian revolution has
	many times changed its strategies and tactics, something
	which has left its imprint on the Palestinian problem and
	on the Palestinian Liberation Front.  The
	[strategies and tactics] have not been clear.  The question
	is, is the direction of the Palestinian problem clear?  The
	Palestinian leadership has stopped, or at least this is
	what has been said in the media, this
	happened on the way to the dialogue with the United States,
	the PLO recognized something called `Israel'...''

	A: ``No, no, no!  We do not recognize the State of Israel.
	We said `recognition'---when a Palestinian state is
	established.  It will then decide if to recognize Israel or
	not.  When it is established, its parliament will convene
	and decide.''
		 --- Yasser Arafat, Libyan television interview, 7/19/19

Arafat on the ultimate PLO goal (the "phased plan"):

	``I have always said and made clear, we have two objectives: Our
	immediate objective and a long-term objective.  Our immediate
	objective is to establish a national and independent administration
	in any part of the Palestine territory that is liberated.  That is
	what was approved at our 12th National Congress [PNC] session.

	The other objective, which is in fact our ultimate objective, is to
	set up a democratic state \ldots in the Palestinian territory.
	Regarding the means to achieve this objective, I must state that we
	have the right to use all means to achieve it.''
	--- Yassir Arafat, Radio Teheran, 1/3/75,
		as quoted in FBIS Daily Report, 1/6/75

Arafat on the PLO "renunciation" of terror:

	``I did not mean to renounce... Actually, I only repeated
	what our PNC had accepted...  I am still now committed
	to what I said in Cairo [Cairo declaration said
	that the PLO would continue operations inside Israel
	and the territories.] in 1985.''
		--- Arafat, interview with Viennese TV, 12/19/88

Arafat on political pluralism:

	``Any Palestinian leader who suggests ending the intifada
	exposes himself to the bullets of his own people and
	endangers his life.  The PLO will know how to deal with
	him.''
	--- Arafat, Kuwaiti News Agency, 1/2/89

Arafat on the massacre at Tienamin Square:

	``...  on behalf of the Arab Palestinian People, their
        leadership, and myself...  [I] take this opportunity to express
        extreme gratification that you were able to restore normal order
        after the recent incidents in People's China.''
	--- Arafat in telegram sent to the head of the Chinese Communist Party

Arafat on Saddam Hussein:

	``We say to the brother and leader Saddam Hussein - go
	forward with God's blessing.''
	--- Yassir Arafat, Iraqi News Agency, 4/3/90

	``We will enter Jerusalem victoriously and raise
	our flag on its walls...  We will fight you [the Israelis] with
	stones, rifles, and 'El-Abed' [the Iraqi missile]...''
	--- Yassir Arafat, AP, 4/29/90

	``We declare our support for Iraq... to achieve liberation from
	Bagdhad to Jerusalem and from al-Faw [the southern tip of Iraq] to
	Gaza.''
	--- Yassir Arafat, Wall Street Journal, 8/24/90

	``We can only be in the camp hostile to Israel and its imperialist
	allies who have mobilized their sophisticated war machine...''
	--- Yassir Arafat, AP, 9/3/90


Yassir Arafat, humanitarian:

       ``Open fire on the new Jewish immigrants ...  be they from the
       Soviet Union, Ethiopia, or anywhere else.  It would be a disgrace if
       we did not lift a finger while herds of immigrants settle our
       territory.  I want you to shoot...  It makes no difference if they
       live in Jaffa or Jericho.  I give you explicit orders to open fire.
       Do everything to stop the flow of immigration.''
	--- Yassir Arafat, Al Muharar (Lebanese weekly), April 10, 1990

Yassir Arafat on genocide:

	``When the Arabs set off their volcano, there will only be 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...''
	--- Yasser Arafat, AP, 3/12/79