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Go back even 40 years and you can't find an Israeli politician saying ""we should attack the Arabs if we think we can win."" That's just absurd and you know it. There are tons of times the Palestinian leadership has talked out both sides of their mouths, starting with Arafat's old ""Phased Plan"" (establish ""Palestine"" the state, THEN attack Israel). 

Question: How do you explain that you occasionally ask the Palestinian street not to explode? 
Arafat: When the prophet Muhammad made the Khudaibiya agreement, he agreed to remove his title ""messenger of Allah"" from the agreement. Then, Omar bin Khatib and the others referred to this agreement as the ""inferior peace agreement."" Of course, I do not compare myself to the prophet, but I do say that we must learn from his steps and those of Salah a-Din. The peace agreement which we signed is an ""inferior peace"". The conditions [behind it] are the intifada, which lasted for seven years. 

Q: For practical reasons, do you now suggest to maintain quiet despite everything? 

Arafat: Yes, I suggest we maintain quiet. We respect agreements the way that the prophet Muhammad and Salah a-Din respected the agreements which they signed.  - That was from Orbit TV, April 18, 1998. The ""Khudaibiya"" peace and the example of Saladin he speaks of are times when Islamic treaties were cut short because Muslim groups were just using them to build up their forces and lull the enemies into thinking war wasn't coming.

We signed that agreement in Oslo, and if any of you has one objection to it, I have one hundred objections. - that was Arafat in 1995 on Voice of Palestine radio, right after he again compared the Oslo accords to the Khudaibiya ""truce."" 

You can't be serious. Look at the 1974 Phased Plan of the PNC, look at all the doublespeak, especially the stuff that we have to translate because they say one thing in English and then the complete opposite to Arabic tv and radio."