Mr. Arafat cannot accept less than 100 percent of the 1967 border of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Nobody has the mandate to sign an agreement which violates our full rights. The right of return, full sovereignty over Jerusalem, the '67 borders ... nobody has the mandate. ... I have full confidence and trust ... Mr. Arafat will not do that.

The occupier's retreat from Gaza and northern West Bank is a result of resistance.

Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.