Anti-Israel

Ismail al-Wahwah, 2017

Date
2017
Body

In response to U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital:

“The very knife with which you cut Palestine is a criminal, infidel, hypocritical knife, and it will be turned against you and will cut your bodies and behead you. This knife will sever your heads from your bodies, just like you severed East Jerusalem from West Jerusalem.”Anna Caldwell, “Ismail al-Wahwah: Muslim speaker’s horrific speech referred to police,” Daily Telegraph (Sydney), September 7, 2020, https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/ismail-alwahwah-muslim-speakers-horrific-speech-referred-to-police/news-story/afcb9484b456b4cdb5db247169b332ae.

Rhetoric Category

Hussein al-Houthi, Founder, 2004

Date
2004
Name of Author
Hussein al-Houthi
Body

“[To then-President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh:] I do not work against you, I appreciate you and what you do tremendously, but what I do is my solemn national duty against the enemy of Islam… America and Israel.”Barak A. Salmoni, Bryce Loidolt, and Madeleine Wells, Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2010), 121, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG962.pdf.

Rhetoric Category

Houthis slogan

Author
Body

“God is great! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curse upon the Jews! Victory to Islam!”Nabih Bulos and Patrick J. McDonnell, “‘Death to America! Death to Israel!’ Say Houthis in Yemen,” Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-death-to-america-death-to-israel-say-houthis-in-yemen-20150220-story.html.

Date
Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, June 2016

Date
Jun. 2016
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, are from the Islamic Republic of Iran.” …

“As long as Iran has money, we have money… Just as we receive the rockets that we use to threaten Israel, we are receiving our money. No law will prevent us from receiving it.”Agence France-Presse, “Hezbollah brushes off US sanctions, says money comes via Iran,” Times of Israel, June 25, 2016, http://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-brushes-off-us-sanctions-says-money-comes-via-iran/.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, March 21, 2016

Date
March 21, 2016
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“There will be no ceiling, limits or red lines. We can strike any target we want inside occupied Palestine.”“Hezbollah chief warns Israel there will be ‘no red lines,’” Associated Press, March 21, 2016, http://bigstory.ap.org/article/72978c5085ef44eeb757f7a1d2c9a5a7/hezbollah-chief-warns-israel-there-will-be-no-red-lines.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Threat

Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman, March 8, 2016

Date
March 8, 2016
Name of Author
Sami Abu Zuhri
Body

“Hamas congratulates the three heroic operations this evening, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Jaffa, and considers this proof of the failure for all these theories to abort the Intifada (uprising), which will continue until the realization of its goals…Hamas celebrates the martyrs that have ascended through these operations, and confirms that their pure blood will, God willing, be the fuel for escalating the Intifada.”Jack Moore, “Hamas Hails Surge of Israel Attacks That Left U.S. Tourist Dead as ‘Heroic,’” Newsweek, March 9, 2016, http://www.newsweek.com/hamas-lauds-surge-israel-attacks-killed-us-tourist-heroic-435009.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Threat

Husam Badran, spokesman, March 3, 2016

Author
Date
March 3, 2016
Name of Author
Husam Badran
Body

“The next phase of the ‘Jerusalem intifada’ will cause great fear among settlers, who will no longer enjoy security… In the next days, the West Bank's settlers will witness additional surprises from Hamas.”Maayan Groisman, “Hamas: Infiltrations into Israeli settlements to manifest the next phase of the 'intifada,’” Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2016, http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-Infiltrations-into-Israeli-settlements-to-manifest-the-next-phase-of-the-intifada-446905.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, February 16, 2016

Date
February 16, 2016
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“Israel knows Hezbollah has missiles and rockets that can strike anywhere in its territory. The inhabitants of Haifa are afraid of an attack... that will lead to the death of tens of thousands of inhabitants out of a population of some 800,000. What does this mean? It means that a few missiles on this ammonia site could have the result of a nuclear bomb.”Vasudevan Sridharan, “Hezbollah's Nasrallah threatens nuclear-like attack on Israeli ammonia storage facility,” International Business Times, February 17, 2016, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hezbollahs-nasrallah-threatens-nuclear-like-attack-israeli-ammonia-storage-facility-1544324.

Date
Rhetoric Category
Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, November 11, 2015

Date
Nov. 11, 2015
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“We are proud that US and Israel consider Hezbollah a threat. When the Great Satan and its puppets say that Hezbollah poses a threat, then we are certain that we are in the right place.”“Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah Proud of Being a ‘Threat’ to US-Israel,” Al-Manar TV, November 11, 2015, http://archive.almanar.com.lb/english/article.php?id=238500.

Rhetoric Category
Threat

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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