“The resistance efforts are carried out by individual actors in the West Bank, and the shooting and stabbing of soldiers and settlers represent a significant change that will have implications for the future. Hamas supports these operations and encourages their perpetrators. It believes that their continuation is an important step for ensuring that dealings with the Israeli occupation return to their natural status, as a prelude to an overall direct confrontation.”Adnan Abu Amer, “Hamas: Israel security measures won’t stop attacks on settlers,” Al-Monitor, August 25, 2015, http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/west-bank-hamas-armed-attacks-israel-security-measures.html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+Newsletter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_campaign=32314a85b0-August_26_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28264b27a0-32314a85b0-102352589.

On the unveiling of a Hamas-designed dirt road near the Gaza-Israel border:

“We built this road in spite of the Jews. Now we are closer to the Jews, only meters between. The Jews’ road is straight, and the Jakar road is straight. We can watch each other during cease-fires and during wars.”Jodi Rudoren, “A Dirt Road in Gaza, Devised by Hamas as a Message to Israel,” New York Times, August 4, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/middleeast/a-dirt-road-in-gaza-intended-to-send-a-message.html.

“I wish to be a mujahid akhi. I am willing to fight. I want to be taught what it really means to have that heart in battle!”(Facebook message, suspected)“United States of America v. Jaelyn Delshaun Young and Muhammada Oda Dakhlalla,” United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, May 21, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/opa/file/705906/download.

In reference to the murder of Egypt’s top prosecutor Hisham Baraket that the Brotherhood has blamed on Sisi’s regime:

“The current Egyptian situation has exceeded everyone’s capacity. There is no way to stop the bloodshed except by breaking the military coup and reviving the revolution.”“Muslim Brotherhood holds Sisi regime responsible for assassination,” Middle East Monitor, June 30, 2015, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/19548-muslim-brotherhood-holds-sisi-regime-responsible-for-assassination.

“[The Shiites] are advancing towards you… your war with them is undoubtedly approaching… either march forth,…drive [the Shiites] back, or remain asleep and wake up to what the people of Iraq, Sham [Syria], and Yemen awoke to of killing, imprisonment, exile, the destruction of their homes, the looting of their wealth, and the violation of their women.”Thomas Joscelyn, “Islamic State spokesman calls on other factions to ‘repent,’ urges sectarian war,” Long War Journal, June 23, 2015, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/06/islamic-state-spokesman-calls-on-other-factions-to-repent.php.

“We’re waiting in Raqqah to behead the PKK. We can smell their blood already. #IS ;)”Qa’qa’ al-Baritani, Twitter post, June 23, 2015, 7:48 p.m., https://twitter.com/an_Najdee/status/613493982857924608.

“Slowly but surely the hadith is being fulfilled. 70 countries against the IS heading towards final conflict @ Daqbiq.”Abu Jandal, Twitter post, June 22, 2015, 8:03 a.m., https://twitter.com/protocol_siyaam/status/612954026590760960.

“Let me open a secret. You radicalize me when u suspend me. So DIE IN YOUR RAGE!!!”Bint Stranger, Twitter post, June 17, 2015 9:13 a.m., https://twitter.com/Bnt_Str___111/status/611204906574311425.

“Alhamdulillah an American snake killed by THE islamic state fighting for the Kurds. HAhaha.https://youtu.be/5x5Gk_ccCx4” (Tweet accompanied by a YouTube link containing a slideshow of photos of a deceased American)Abuqital ibn tauheed, Twitter Post, June 12, 12:52 p.m., accessed June 17, 2015, https://twitter.com/abuqitall24/status/609448313771851776.

“Prepared to fight as a mujahid and afterwards die as a shaheed. #Shahada.”Just Muhajirah, Twitter post, June 8, 2015, 4:42 a.m., https://twitter.com/JustMuhajirah/status/607830021550575616.