All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations… Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.


Statement from Wafa, Beirut (9 June 1974) as quoted in Journal of Palestine Studies (1974), p. 224.

Yasser Arafat Quotes

All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations…...

All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations…...

All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations…...

All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations…...