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If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.

— Gamal Abdel Nasser A Mandate for Terror : The United Nations and the PLO (1989)

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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.

Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!

Now with our concentrations in Sinai, the chances of war are fifty-fifty. But if we close the Strait, war will be a one hundred percent certainty.

We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. [If war comes] it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.

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