Yasser Arafat (Chairman, Palestinian Authority):
   "I tell everyone who should hear me, for good or for bad, this brave people will continue to protect and defend our holy land with its blood and soul, and all its property.
   "This is a consecrated land, our land of ours, now and forever, from the cradle to the grave . . . we with the help of God will meet next time in Jerusalem, because we are fighting in order to bring the victory to our prophets, every baby, every child, every man, every woman, and every older person, and all the youngsters, we will sacrifice ourselves for our holy places, and we will establish the guard on them, and are prepared to give 70 of our martyrs for every martyr of theirs in this campaign, because this is our holy land. We will continue to fight on this blessed land, and I call to you, remain steadfast, no one will succeed in dividing us, to remove us from this holy land.
   "We will raise the flag of Palestine on the mosques and churches [of Jerusalem]."
- said during a speech in Ramallah - Dec. 18, 2001

   "To Jerusalem we will march millions of martyrs. Al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad." (Holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war.)
- said during a speech in Ramallah broadcast
on Al-Jazeera satellite television, Jan. 27, 2002
NOTE: the next day the first female suicide bomber killed 10 Israelis on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem.

   "The Oslo Agreement is a Trojan horse with which to get senior Palestinian leaders into Israel. The intifada that the Palestinians began last year represents their coming out of the inside of the horse."
- December 19, 2001

   "The Palestinian state will be established with al-Kuds al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital. By Allah, I see it coming, martyred or alive. We do not know how to retreat; we know how to advance. May Allah give me the honor of martyrdom in my steadfastness for Jerusalem."
- quoted in the Jerusalem Post, Jan. 22, 2002

Saddam Hussein (President of Iraq):
   "The Palestinians do not need proposals. Our main task should be helping them in their struggle either by offering arms of money."
- said in a meeting with Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the
Palestine Liberation Organization's political department;
Al-Iraq newspaper, March 4, 2002

Feisal Husseini (deceased Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem):
   "The [ancient] Greek Army was unable to break into Troy . . . [following the Greeks' apparent defeat], the people of Troy climbed on top of their city walls and could not find any traces of the Greek army, except for a giant wooden horse. They cheered and celebrated, thinking that the Greek troops had been routed and had left behind only a harmless wooden horse. So they opened the gates of the city and brought in the wooden horse. We all know what happened next. . . . Had the U.S. and Israel not [thought], before Oslo, that all that was left of the Palestinian National movement and the Pan-Arab movement was a wooden horse named Arafat or the PLO, they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls. . . . The Oslo accords were a Trojan horse; the strategic goal is the liberation of Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea . . ."
- in an interview for Al-Arabi newspaper,
the last interview before his heart attack, May 2001 

Friday Sermon from Al Aqsa Mosque:
   "The infidel countries, led by the United States, invented the excuse and justification of their dirty war against Islam, Muslims and Islamic movements all over the world, following the attack against it [the US]. The US, who used its criminal aggression against Afghanistan with the most destructive bombs there are . . . criminal Britain, who was directly responsible for the creation of this corrupt entity on Palestinian land . . . is demanding that the Palestinians destroy its Islamic groups. Britain has forgotten that it is the peak of terrorism and of hatred against Islam and Muslims. . . .
   ". . . Wake up Muslims, from your slumber. Unite. Forget your differences. After Afghanistan will come the turn of every one of our countries. . . . The enemies of Islam want to break your strength everywhere in the world. . . ."
- Dec. 28, 2001 sermon broadcast over Voice of Palestine Radio
translated from the Arabic by Palestinian Media Watch; Jan. 1, 2002