http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=711&fld_id=723&doc_id=486 Yasser Arafat denounces the Oslo accords in a speech given in Johannesburg, publicly stating that he does not consider the accords valid or binding. He equates the Oslo agreement with the peace treaty that was made between Islam's Prophet Muhammad and the Quraish tribe -- a treaty which Muhammad violated several years later when his army was stronger. Transcript: Yasser Arafat: "This agreement - I am not considering it any more than the agreement which was signed between our prophet Mohammad and Quraish (Meccan tribe). And you remember that the Caliph Omar rejected this agreement and considered it 'Sulha Dania' [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad accepted it, and we are now accepting this peace accord." [Private recording, Johannesburg, May 10, 1994]