“Today we say it clearly. Armed resistance and armed struggle are the strategic way to liberate the Palestinian land from the sea to the river.”Fares Akram, “At a Rally for Hamas, Celebration and Vows,” New York Times, December 14, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/on-anniversary-hamas-repeats-vows-on-israel-and-violence.html.

“The American administration abandons its followers and allies at the first crossroad to search for its interests. Our Arab and Islamic nations should know that the American administration is the enemy and the threat.”Nada Bakri, “Hezbollah Leader Backs Syrian President in Public,” The New York Times, December 6, 2011, accessed August 4, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/middleeast/hassan-nasrallah-hezbollah-leader-showcases-defiance-in-rare-appearance.html.

“All Palestinian factions within the PLO have aimed at liberating Palestine, not establishing a state; a state comes after liberating Palestine.”Rami Almeghari, “PA Goes to UN without Palestinian Consensus behind It,” Electronic Intifada, September 20, 2011, http://electronicintifada.net/content/pa-goes-un-without-palestinian-consensus-behind-it/10405.

“We believe that Zionism, the United States, and England are gangs that kill children and women and men and destroy houses and fields. Zionism is a gang, not a country. So we will resist them until they don’t have a country.”Eric Trager, “The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood: Grim Prospects for a Liberal Egypt,” Foreign Affairs, 90 (2011): 114, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68211/eric-trager/the-unbreakable-muslim-brotherhood.

“Yes, it will be an armed confrontation, as well as all other forms of struggle, including civil Intifdada against the occupation, against the wall, and against the Judaization of Jerusalem. There is no doubt, however, that the armed confrontation will continue to be the main effort and the backbone of the resistance, until the liberation of Palestine.”MEMRI, “Osama Hamdan, Head of the Hamas Foreign Liaisons: Armed Confrontation Will Continue to Be ‘the Backbone of the Resistance’, the Israelis Must Return to Their Countries of Origin,” Internet Archive, May 4, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110605010923/http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2949.htm.

“I have hope that as God has delighted me to see a liberated Egypt, [so too will God] delight me with a conquered Al Aqsa [Jerusalem].”“Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror,” Anti-Defamation League, last modified March 15, 2011, http://archive.adl.org/nr/exeres/788c5421-70e3-4e4d-bff4-9be14e4a2e58,db7611a2-02cd-43af-8147-649e26813571,frameless.html.

“We cannot agree to a programme that is intended to poison the minds of our children… Holocaust studies in refugee camps is a contemptible plot and serves the Zionist entity with a goal of creating a reality and telling stories in order to justify acts of slaughter against the Palestinian people.”Harriet Sherwood, “Hamas Fights UN’s ‘Poisonous’ Holocaust Lessons in Gazan Schools,” Guardian [U.K.], February 28, 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/28/hamas-un-holocaust-lessons-gaza.

“I’m demanding to the resistance not to spare any effort to kidnap more soldiers. The Jews only understand one language—the language of force.”Ernesto Londoño, “Prisoner Swap with Israel Emboldens Hamas,” Washington Post, October 18, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/gilad-shalit-prisoner-swap-israel-prepares-for-the-captive-soldiers-release/2011/10/17/gIQAZ2lFsL_story.html.

“It is the mujahidin who are fighting America which is supporting Israel and are fighting their way to get through to Israel, and the ones that are standing in the way of the mujahidin and fighting Israel is the Arab states. Allah has blessed the mujahidin from ahl as-sunnah to strike rockets at variant times at Israel under the instruction of Shaykh Usama.”“Q&A with Shaykh Adil al-Abbab,” Inspire Magazine 4 (2010): 22.

“The motto of every honorable one should remain that Israel must be eliminated from life.”Fares Akram, “Gaza: Palestinian Islamic Jihad Vows Resistance,” New York Times, October 29, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/world/middleeast/30briefs-GAZA.html.