Anti-Israel

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Brotherhood spiritual and intellectual leader, February 18, 2011

Date
Feb. 18, 2011
Name of Author
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Body

“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.

Rhetoric Category

Hamas Ministry for Refugee Affairs, February 2011

Date
Feb. 2011
Name of Author
Hamas Ministry for Refugee Affairs
Body

“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.

Threat

Akram Abdullah Kassem, one of the Hamas prisoners released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, 2011

Date
2011
Name of Author
Akram Abdullah Kassem
Body

“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.

Threat

Adil al-Abab, Former Chief Religious Cleric, Winter 2010

Name of Author
Adil al-Abab
Body

“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.

Ramadan Shallah, PIJ secretary-general, on PIJ’s anniversary, October 2010

Date
Oct. 2010
Name of Author
Ramadan Shallah, PIJ leader, on PIJ’s anniversary, October 2010
Body

“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.

Rhetoric Category

Mohammed Morsi, former Egyptian president, September 23, 2010

Date
Sep. 23, 2010
Name of Author
Mohammed Morsi
Muslim Brotherhood
Body

“These futile [Israeli-Palestinian] negotiations are a waste of time and opportunities. The Zionists buy time and gain more opportunities, as the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the Muslims lose time and opportunities, and they get nothing out of it... This [Palestinian] Authority was created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests…”“Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with the Blood-Sucking, Warmongering ‘Descendants of Apes and Pigs’; Calls to Boycott U.S. Products,” MEMRI, accessed May 30, 2014, http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3702.htm.

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Mohammed Morsi, former Egyptian president, September 23, 2010

Date
Sep. 23, 2010
Name of Author
Mohammed Morsi
Muslim Brotherhood
Body

“No reasonable person can expect any progress on [negotiations]. Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war. This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine know – these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.”“Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with the Blood-Sucking, Warmongering ‘Descendants of Apes and Pigs’; Calls to Boycott U.S. Products,” MEMRI, accessed May 30, 2014, http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3702.htm.

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Mohammed Morsi, former Egyptian president, September 23, 2010

Date
Sep. 23, 2010
Name of Author
Mohammed Morsi
Muslim Brotherhood
Body

“We should employ all forms of resistance against them. There should be military resistance within the land of Palestine against those criminal Zionists, who attack Palestine and the Palestinians. There should also be political resistance and economic resistance through a boycott, as well as by supporting the resistance fighters. This should be the practice of the Muslims and the Arabs outside Palestine. They should support the resistance fighters and besiege the Zionist wherever they are. None of the Arab or Muslim peoples and regimes should have dealings with them. Pressure should be exerted upon them. They must not be given any opportunity, and must not stand on any Arab or Islamic land. They must be driven out of our countries.”“Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with the Blood-Sucking, Warmongering ‘Descendants of Apes and Pigs’; Calls to Boycott U.S. Products,” MEMRI, accessed May 30, 2014, http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3702.htm.

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Mohammed Morsi, former Egyptian president, September 23, 2010

Date
Sep. 23, 2010
Name of Author
Mohammed Morsi
Muslim Brotherhood
Body

“[T]hese negotiations must stop once and for all. Everybody must turn to the support of the resistance, which is the option chosen by the Palestinians and by us all – the Arabs and the Muslims, Palestinians and others. We must all realize that resistance is the only way to liberate the land of Palestine.”“Morsi in 2010: No to Negotiations with the Blood-Sucking, Warmongering ‘Descendants of Apes and Pigs’; Calls to Boycott U.S. Products,” MEMRI, accessed May 30, 2014, http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/3702.htm.

Rhetoric Category

Said al-Shihri, Former Deputy AQAP Leader, August 2010

Name of Author
Said al-Shihri
Body

“Know…that the upcoming war is a war against Islam and the Sunni Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula and the Sham [Levant]. Treaties and alliances have been formed for that. The Jews want to build the Temple of Solomon and the state of Israel…The Jews and apostates from the rulers of the Peninsula are in an alliance that was set up by America. Iran and their Arab Shi'i supporters in the region are another alliance… It is expected that the Jews will begin the war against Iran, in which the battlefield will be the Peninsula and its citizens. The Jews are in the Sham and Iran in the Peninsula… [Saudi soldiers] Disavow your support for the tyrant, the agent of the Crusader campaign in the region, which places you in the realm of non-belief…”Murad Batal Al-Shishani, “Al-Qaeda’s Sa’id Al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military,” Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor 8, no. 34 (2010): 3-4.