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In article <8APR199221152830@vms.huji.ac.il>, rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il (ROBERT WERMAN) writes:
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>Danny Keren <dzk@cs.brown.edu> writes:
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>>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
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>>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.
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>Here is the collection:
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>Arafat on PLO "recognition" of Israel:
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>	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'...''
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>	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
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>Arafat on the ultimate PLO goal (the "phased plan"):
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>	``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
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>Arafat on the PLO "renunciation" of terror:
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>	``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
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>Arafat on political pluralism:
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>	``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
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>Arafat on the massacre at Tienamin Square:
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>	``...  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
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>Arafat on Saddam Hussein:
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>	``We say to the brother and leader Saddam Hussein - go
>	forward with God's blessing.''
>	--- Yassir Arafat, Iraqi News Agency, 4/3/90
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>	``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
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>	``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
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>	``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
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>
>Yassir Arafat, humanitarian:
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>       ``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
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>Yassir Arafat on genocide:
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>	``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
>