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's speech at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (August 6, 1995), as quoted in "Haaretz", September 6, 1995, and in "The Jerusalem Post", September 7, 1995.