PA: “We are prepared to sacrifice … we will sacrifice our children""We in the Fatah Movement, regarding the struggle, the resistance, and the rules of engagement – we are open. We are prepared to sacrifice..."Oct 7, 2020
Abbas has “no reservations about any action” – taken by joint Fatah–Hamas committee"I will have no reservations about any action or committee, or about any person or organization in any committee or action"Sep 12, 2020
Top PA/Fatah official threatens Israel: “All possibilities are open,” “struggle” will escalate from peaceful to violence"Regarding the resistance in all its forms, for us in Fatah there is no problem. All of the possibilities are open and on the table."Sep 7, 2020
Top PA official promotes terror: “All the types of resistance” are valid “against all expressions of the occupation”"All the possibilities are open to all the types of resistance in the occupied lands against all expressions of the occupation"Aug 17, 2020
PA warns Israel against annexation: Defense will be “with spirit and blood”“No to the deal of the century”Jun 21, 2020 & Jul 20, 2020
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas rejects all negotiations with the US if Jerusalem and refugee problem are off the tableOfficial PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the opening event of the Jerusalem the Capital of the Islamic Youth 2018 conference at the PA headquarters in Ramallah PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “Not only have [the Americans] taken Jerusalem off the table, but they have also spoken about UNRWA...”Feb 6, 2018
Abbas: “Jerusalem is the gate to peace… only when it will be the capital of the State of Palestine, and …it is, God forbid, the gate to war, fear, and the lack of security and stability if it is not”Official PA TV, special broadcast for the Al-Azhar Conference in Cairo, on US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “After [the US] has stood unequivocally alongside the occupation and imposed a reality upon us that leaves us no choice but...”Jan 17, 2018
Day after murder of Israeli mother of 6, Abbas: “We are against spilling of blood… our resistance will remain peaceful”The day after 15-year-old Palestinian terrorist Morad Adais stabbed 38-year-old Israeli Dafna Meir to death in her home in the town of Otniel, south of Hebron, in front of her children, Abbas maintained that the Palestinian "resistance" is “peaceful,” thus denying the many shooting and stabbing...Jan 18, 2016
Abbas on cooperation with Israel: "We cannot confront the State of Israel - neither militarily or in any other way"“As for the Israeli government, it is causing a sharp escalation, and this is a new problem we are facing. The reason is the kidnapping of three boys near one of the settlements. Naturally, despite their [Israel’s] presence in Area C, which is not under our security control, and despite the fact...”Jun 18, 2014
Abbas' advisor praises murderer of 37 civilians, says negotiations not "our only choice"Mahmoud Abbas' advisor on NGOs Sultan Abu Al-Einein: "I am greatly honored to be standing [here] today, so days that are important to us all will never be erased from our memory. In March, [we mark] Palestinian Women’s Day, in March, Palestinian Mother’s Day also occurs, in March [we remember] that..."Mar 17, 2014
Fatah official: “International legitimacy allows us to resist with all means”Official PA TV Live broadcast a program under the heading, “What will happen after the negotiations?” Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rajoub: “Had Fatah not taken decision-making and the Palestinian national will into its own hands using bullets, it would not have been...”Feb 26, 2014
Fatah official: Negotiations must be reinforced by “armed struggle”An interview on Al-Mayadeen TV (Lebanon) with Tawfiq Tirawi, member of Fatah Central Committee: Tirawi: “There is no way a Palestinian state will be established in the West Bank and [the] Gaza [Strip] within the next twenty years... The negotiations are giving us nothing. The only thing that is...”Jan 23, 2014
Fatah official: Soak the land with blood to “liberate” JerusalemFatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “I say, from a position of responsibility, not a centimeter of Jerusalem will be liberated unless every grain of Palestinian soil is soaked in the blood of its brave people. For Jerusalem doesn’t need negotiations, because negotiations will not bring...”Dec 19, 2013
Because of Israel’s military superiority, PA Chairman Abbas says ”no” to armed confrontationPA chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “Then came the Intifada (PA terror campaign, 2000-2005), which was an armed Intifada. It destroyed us, completely destroyed us. I wish you could see Ramallah now, and [that you] could have seen it during the Intifada. I have said that I won’t agree to an armed Intifada...”Dec 12, 2013
PA TV glorifies Abbas' defiance of the US in seeking UN observer statusPA TV broadcast the movie ‘The appeal to the UN; secrets and hidden [facts]’ Part 1. The movie’s intro: “A clear objective and a legitimate right.”… “We chose the way and entered the conflict; we won and waved the name ‘Palestine.’ “Defiance, power, determination, the appeal to the UN; secrets and...”Nov 29, 2013
Fatah official: I "oppose negotiations"Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Al-Tirawi: "The other point I would like to say is that the Israelis say that Beit El and Ma'ale Adumim are Israeli areas, but we also haven't forgotten that Haifa, Jaffa, Acre and Nazareth are Palestinian and will remain Palestinian forever." Click to view...Aug 13, 2013
Fatah offical: "We don’t say ‘peaceful popular resistance.’ No. We say ‘popular resistance’… We have given everything for peace and we now intend to give everything for the battlefield"Official PA TV Live broadcast a ceremony honoring outstanding students from the ‘Abu Jihad’ Khalil Al-Wazir class at the An-Najah National University. Fatah Central Committee member, Abbas Zaki: “We are on the ground and we are not abandoning the field. Proof of this is that two-thirds of the...” Apr 8, 2013
Arafat compares Oslo Accords to Muhammad's Hudaybiyyah peace treaty, which led to defeat of the peace partnersSpeech by Yasser Arafat, Johannesburg: "This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and Quraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and considered it "Sulha Dania" [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad had..."May 10, 1994