“We know only one word – jihad. jihad, jihad, jihad. Whoever does not like it can drink from the Dead Sea or from the Sea of Gaza.”
– at a rally in Bethlehem, published in Yediot Ahronot, October 23, 1996
“O my dear ones on 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.”
– statement published in the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, April, 1998)
“We Palestinians will takeover everything, including all of Jerusalem..Peres and Beilin have already promised us half of Jerusalem. The Golan Heights have already been given away, subject to just a few details…..We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps..within five years, we will have six to seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem. All Palestinian Arabs will be welcomed by us. If the Jews can import all kinds of Ethiopians, Russians, Uzbeks and Ukranians as Jews, we can import all kinds of Arabs to us…[the PLO plans] 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; Jews won’t want to live among us Arabs.”
– in a secret meeting with top Arab diplomats in Stockholm’s Grand Hote, January 30, 1996
“The commitment still stands and the oath is still valid: that we will continue this long jihad, this difficult jihad… via deaths, via sacrifices.”
– in a speech given at Al-Azhar University in Gaza on 19 June 1995 (The Jerusalem Post, 3 August 1995)
“All of us are willing to be martyrs along the way, until our flag flies over Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. Let no one think they can scare us with weapons, for we have mightier weapons – the weapon of faith, the weapon of martyrdom, the weapon of jihad.”
– in a speech given to Palestinian laborers in Gaza in January 1995 (Parade Magazine, New York Newsday, 25 June 1995)
“Our nation is a nation of sacrifice, struggle and jihad.”
– in a speech relayed by telephone to a rally in Hebron (Voice of Palestine, 14 February 1995)
“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.”
– in a speech given on 6 August 1995 at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (Haaretz, 6 September 1995; The Jerusalem Post, 7 September 1995)
“Be blessed, O Gaza, and celebrate, for your sons are returning after a long celebration. O Gaza, your sons are returning. O Jaffa, O Lod, O Haifa, O Jerusalem, you are returning, you are returning.”
– at a reception held in his honor in Gaza (Maariv, 7 September 1995)
“We are all seekers of martyrdom in the path of truth and right toward Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine.”
– in a speech given at Al-Azhar University in Gaza on 19 June 1995 (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation, 19 June 1995)
“Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Palestine whether someone likes it or not, and whoever does not like it, let him drink from the sea of Gaza.”
– in a speech given at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation, 6 August 1995)
“Yes, we are proud of the Palestinian girl, the Palestinian woman and the Palestinian child who fulfilled these miracles. The Palestinian woman participated in the Palestinian revolution. The Palestinian girl participated in the Palestinian revolution. Abir al-Wahidi, commander of the central region [al-Wahidi participated in the murder of Israeli Zvi Klein in December 1991] and Dalal al-Maghrabi, Martyr of Palestine [al-Maghrabi took part in the Coastal Road Massacre in March 1978, in which 37 Israelis were killed]. I bow in respect and admiration to the Palestinian woman who receives her martyred son with joyful cheering. The soul and blood for you, O Palestine!”
– in a speech given on 3 September 1995 at the al-Fatah girls school in Gaza to mark the opening of the school year (Israel Channel Two Television, 19 September 1995)
“When we stopped the Intifada we did not stop the Jihad [Islamic holy war] to establish Palestine with Jerusalem as our capital…. We know only one word: Jihad, Jihad, Jihad…. We are in a conflict with the Zionist movement, the Balfour Declaration, and all imperialist activity….”
– in a speech at the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, 22 October 1996 (Yediot Aharonot, 23 October 1996).
“Are there no stones left in Hebron? Where are the stones and where are the mobs? Prepare yourselves for a struggle if the Israelis do not retreat from Hebron.”
– addressing Arab legislators in Hebron, 22 October 1996 (Yediot Aharonot, 23 October 1996)
“War! War! Continue the struggle!”
– in a speech at the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, 22 October 1996 (Arutz-7 Radio, 23 October 1996)
“There is no doubt we must be prepared for all contingencies.”
– in a speech to the Palestinian legislative council in Ramallah, 10 October 1996 (The Jerusalem Post, 11 October 1996). The remark was widely interpreted as threatening future violence if his demands are not met.
“If Israel rejects our demands there will be a reaction and we have a 30,000 man armed force.”
– quoted by Israel Radio reporter Yoni Ben Menachem, 7 June 1996
“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.”
– in a speech given on 6 August 1995 at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (Haaretz, 6 September 1995; The Jerusalem Post, 7 September 1995)
“The struggle will continue until all of Palestine is liberated.”
– on Voice of Palestine Radio, 11 November 1995
The Jihad [Islamic holy war] will continue, and Jerusalem is not [only] for the Palestinian people, it is for all the Muslim nation.—-No, you have to come and to fight and to start the Jihad to liberate Jerusalem, your first shrine.—-This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our prophet Mohammed and Koraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and [considered] it a despicable truce.
– in a speech given on May 10, 1994, in a mosque in Johannesburg, South Africa (Note how Terrorfat referred to the Khudaibiya agreement made by Muhammad with the Arabian tribe of Koreish. The pact, slated to last for ten years, was broken within two years, when the Islamic forces – having used the peace pact to become stronger – conquered the Koreish tribe).
Here are quotes made by Terrorfat AFTER signing the Oslo Peace Agreement with Israel in 1993. They should leave you in no doubt that he never gave up his murderous ways.
