“83. Yasir Arafat, Speech in Johannesburg, 10 May 1994” in “Negotiating Arab Israeli Peace: Third Edition | Appendices”
Speech by Yasser Arafat, Johannesburg, 10 May 1994
"This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and Quraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and considered it "Sulha Dania" [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad had accepted it and we are accepting now this [Oslo] peace accord."
Arafat compares Oslo Accords to Muhammad's Hudaybiyyah peace treaty, which led to defeat of the peace partners
Private recording | May 10, 1994
The Hudaybiyyah peace treaty – former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat compared the Oslo Accords with the Hudaybiyyah peace treaty - a 10-year truce agreed between Islam's Prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh Tribe of Mecca. However, two years later, Muhammad attacked and conquered Mecca.
SOURCE: https://palwatch.org/page/8
We use cookies to analyze our traffic. Please decide if you are willing to accept cookies from our website. You can change this setting anytime in Privacy Settings.