We shall never allow Israel to live in peace. We shall never allow it total security. Every Israeli will feel that behind every wall there might be a guerrilla who is aiming at me…Farouk Kaddoumi head of the PLO’s political department in an Interview in Stern, West Germany on July 30, 1981

Our agreements with the Israelis are like the Trojan horse. I explain to our people that this is the only way to get into the walls of Jerusalem, like the wooden horse the Greeks used against the Trojans.
— Faisal Husseini, who ran Orient House as Arafat’s representative in Jerusalem in an interview with an Egyptian magazine before his death in May 2001 quoted by Amnon Dankner in Ma’ariv, July 13, 2001

…this state will be an independent Palestinian state and will function as a base from which to liberate Jaffa, Akko, and all of Palestine… Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) interview with Al-Safir, Lebanon, Jan. 25, 1988

The right of the Palestinian nation to self-determination is expressed in the exposure and the destruction of the Zionist idea, and of Israel, which is the result of that idea. Sami el Atri, Secretary of the Palestinian Central Committee in an interview with the Kuwaiti paper Al-Kabas March 7, 1978.

We are discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it doesn’t mean that we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about Acre..we are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a certain time. It doesn’t mean that we have given up… We have announced a number of times that from a religious point of view Palestine from the sea to the river is Islamic.” [Note: Jaffa and Acre are Israeli cities.]
- - Sheikh Ikrima Sabri - The Palestinian Authority appointed Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine on Palestinian Television, 11 January 2001

Even if agreements were signed [regarding] Gaza and the West Bank, we will not forget [the currently Israeli cities of] Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, the Galilee Triangle, and the Negev. It is only a question of time.
- - Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiah, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000

All of the agreements entered into [with Israel] are temporary, until the decree comes from Allah and until the destiny from Allah is realized.
- - Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi., Palestinian Television, 28 July 2000

We exaggerate when we say ‘peace’… what we are speaking about is ‘Hudna’, a temporary ceasefire.
— Arab Knesset Member Abdel Maleh Dahamshe, Palestinian Television, 1 September 2000