“[Quds Day] is a reflection of the fact that no other way exists apart from resolve and strength to completely eliminate the aggressive nature and to destroy Israel.”Herb Keinon and Joanna Paraszczuk, “Senior Iranian Official Threatens Israel with Destruction,” Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2012, http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Senior-Iranian-official-threatens-Israel-with-destruction.

“To our brothers in religion, men of Islam, companions on the road in jihad against international Zionist Crusades and their agents on the land of Somalia. Peace and prayers be upon you.”“Al-Malahim Media Presents a New Audio-Visual Message from Al-Qa’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s Shaykh Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi (Sa’id Al-Shehri): ‘Greetings and Support for the Mujahidin in Somalia and the Islamic Maghrib,’” Jihadology, July 27, 2012, http://jihadology.net/2012/05/22/al-mala%E1%B8%A5im-media-presents-a-new-audio-visual-message-from-al-qaidah-in-the-arabian-peninsulas-shaykh-abu-sufyan-al-azdi-said-al-shehri-greetings-and-support-for-the-mujahidin.

“The fruit was unripe, green, and bitter; the Oslo accords were bitter and we were made to swallow the bitterness. The result of this premature step was the Palestinian Authority… So what is our strategy today? We consider ourselves on a path to national liberation and therefore proclaim ourselves a movement of national and Islamic liberation from Israeli occupation. This requires us to adhere to the motto of resistance and continue with that option to reclaim the land… At all events, it must be made clear that this land is occupied and that resistance, jihad, and liberation are the only paths to restore our rights, while rejecting all compromise with Israel… They knew they were fighting Islamic Jihad, and that Islamic Jihad has nothing to lose, controls its own decisions, and does not count its casualties…. [So] trying to match Islamic Jihad in battle would entail great losses, particularly if Jihad extended the range of its missiles.”Mouin Rabbani, “Between Hamas and the PA: An Interview with Islamic Jihad’s Khalid Al-Batsh,” Journal of Palestine Studies 42, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 61–70.

Hamas can obtain its goals “only through fighting and armed resistance and no compromise should be made with the enemy.”“Haniyeh: No Compromise, Only Armed Resistance,” Jerusalem Post, February 13, 2012, http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Haniyeh-No-compromise-only-armed-resistance.

“Gaza is the human shield between Israeli aggression and Egypt.” “Meshaal: Palestinian State Will Be the Fruit of Liberation,” Middle East Monitor, November 28, 2012, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140217-meshaal-palestinian-state-will-be-the-fruit-of-liberation/.

“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.