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