“The United States is the best place in the world to live in. But, unfortunately, the gang in the White House sees everything through Israel's eyes, and the government manipulates the people's vision of what is going on outside the country.” Scott Atran and Robert Axelrod, “Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Perspectives on Terrorism, November 29, 2010, http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/95.

“But I will never, under any conditions, accept the existence of the state of Israel.” Scott Atran and Robert Axelrod, “Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Perspectives on Terrorism, November 29, 2010, http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/95.

“The US and Israel heighten Iranophobia to gain the support of Arab regimes, which fear Iran.” Scott Atran and Robert Axelrod, “Interview with Ramadan Shallah, Secretary General, Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Perspectives on Terrorism, November 29, 2010, http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/95.

“The American administration's unlimited support to Israel ... places the American administration in the position of the enemy of our nation and our peoples.”Nadim Ladki, “Hezbollah Cuts Islamist Rhetoric in New Manifesto,” Reuters, November 30, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/30/us-lebanon-hezbollah-idUSTRE5AT3VK20091130.

“We do not recognise Israel as a legitimate entity within this region and see it as an invading body that was cultivated in this area as a representative of Western interests and colonial powers.” “‘Two-State Solution Is a Disaster,’” Al Jazeera, October 14, 2009, http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/10/2009101451842607440.html.

“I consider that the entire land of Palestine is ours and that the Israelis have no right to build so-called Israel as a Jewish state on that land… I do believe that Israel is an alien entity and they have no right to live as a legal part of this region.”“‘Two-State Solution Is a Disaster’,” Al Jazeera, October 14, 2009, http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/10/2009101451842607440.html.

“First of all, we do not believe in negotiations with Israel. We do not recognise Israel as a legitimate entity within this region and see it as an invading body that was cultivated in this area as a representative of Western interests and colonial powers. Israel is an occupier and they expelled the indigenous people of the land—the Palestinian population who are now living as refugees throughout the world… We do not trust the so-called peace process. From our point of view, nothing has been achieved since the Madrid conference and the Oslo Accords signed by Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian president, in 1993.”“‘Two-State Solution Is a Disaster’,” Al Jazeera, October 14, 2009, http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/10/2009101451842607440.html.

Adding the Holocaust to UNRWA’s curriculum in Gaza would be “marketing a lie and spreading it… I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime, because of how it serves the Zionist colonizers and deals with their hypocrisy and lies.”Diaa Hadid, “Hamas Leader Denies Holocaust, Objects To UN Plan To Teach Gaza Children About Holocaust,” Huffington Post, August 31, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/hamas-leader-denies-holoc_n_273078.html.

Abu Zuhri objected to adding the “so-called Holocaust” to Gaza’s curriculum. “We think it's more important to teach Palestinians the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”Diaa Hadid, “Hamas Leader Denies Holocaust, Objects To UN Plan To Teach Gaza Children About Holocaust,” Huffington Post, August 31, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/hamas-leader-denies-holoc_n_273078.html.

“Our rockets have the precision capabilities to target all the Israeli nuclear sites.”Elisabeth Bumiller, “Gates, in Visit to Israel, Will Find Iran Looming,” New York Times, July 26, 2009, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E6DF173DF935A15754C0A96F9C8B63.