"Two-stage plan" to ensuring a "national Palestinian state:" 1) terrorist operations to inform Israel that they "stole the land," 2) "recognition of Palestine
Official PA TV, a film is shown about Salah Khalaf “Abu Iyad,” former head of the Black September terror organization
Salah Khalaf “Abu Iyad”: “After 1948, after the exile and the uprooting, and after 18 years of suffering, we saw that there is no choice for us – not as Palestinians, but as Arabs and the Arab nation – but to turn to weapons and force. We knew that the operations (i.e., terror attacks) that the self-sacrificing fighters were carrying out could not on their own liberate the land, but all of the fighting force and the material forces of the Arabs were capable of constituting a mighty force that would compel the enemy, in the first stage, to believe that this people whose land it stole has a right to have a national state. Afterwards, in the second stage, the enemy would necessarily recognize that it came as a thief, and that Palestinian flags will necessarily wave above all of Palestine.”