“Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

—  Yasser Arafat

1970s, Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)

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