Suleiman Haddad wrote that peace is almost impossible, and urged the U.S. and the international community to pressure Israel to implement the U.N. resolutions. Otherwise, he said, "the region will face difficult choices, and resistance will be the only [possible] option for the Arab and Palestinian people..."

Haddad went on to distinguish several groups within the Arab world: "Some," he wrote, "have accepted a mistaken and unacceptable formula of peace with Israel for no reward, while others are still hesitating between moving ahead and withdrawing [from previous agreements]. [These people] need to take a decision, [and] we call upon them, in the name of justice, history, and the millions of shahids who have fallen since 1948, not to sacrifice the [Arab] cause.

"There is yet another group who is now standing up and calling out loud not to relinquish a single [Arab] right or a single grain of soil. This group knows that the Arabs have given more than is possible, and that their consent to [a Palestinian state] within the 1967 borders is a concession that we never imagined we would give. [But even] this concession has been rejected by the enemy that has come from the ends of the world to occupy our land, kill our people, and defile our holy places while uttering lofty [slogans] about [its] rights. This enemy believes that peace will only be achieved through the muzzle of the gun, [and] we are informing it today that we too have become convinced that peace will only be achieved through the muzzle of the gun..."