"Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept a single one of his conditions. Let me tell you. Arafat went to Oslo and signed [the agreement]. What did Israel do? They confined him in Muqata in one room and killed him."

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Source: 'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'. Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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