Addressing Hezbollah’s stance toward Israel, Nasrallah issued the following statement: “This stand is firm, permanent, and final, and it does not tolerate any retreat or compromise even if the entire world recognizes Israel.”Jonathan Masters and Zachary Laub, “Hezbollah (a.k.a. Hizbollah, Hizbu’llah),” Council on Foreign Relations, January 3, 2014, http://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155.

“We don't deny the Holocaust, but we believe the Holocaust was exaggerated by the Zionist movement to whip people.”Tim Marshall, “Hamas Leader Talks Exclusively To Sky,” Sky News, March 31, 2008, http://news.sky.com/story/591531.

“We agree on the [Palestinian] state with the borders of June 4, 1967, Jerusalem as its capital, fully sovereign without settlements, the right of return, but without the recognition of Israel.” “Hamas: No Plan to Recognize Israel,” CNN, April 21, 2008, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/21/carter.hamas/index.html.

After accusing Israel of assassinating a Hezbollah bomb maker: “You crossed the borders. Zionists, if you want an open war, let it be an open war anywhere.”Robert F. Worth and Nada Bakri, “Hezbollah Threatens Attacks on Israeli Targets,” New York Times, February 15, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/world/middleeast/15lebanon.html.

“Let the whole world hear us: We will not relinquish a centimeter of Palestine, and we will not recognize Israel.”Isabel Kershner and Taghreed El-khodary, “Hamas Urges Taking Hard Line Against Israel,” New York Times, November 27, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/world/middleeast/27mideast.html.

“This is Islam, that was ahead of its time with regards to human rights in the treatment of prisoners, but our nation was tested by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation...”“Hamas in Their Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 2, 2011, http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/muslim-arab-world/c/hamas-in-their-own-words.html.

“Be certain that America is on its way to utter destruction, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine... Make us victorious over the community of infidels... Allah, take the Jews and their allies, Allah, take the Americans and their allies... Allah, annihilate them completely and do not leave anyone of them.”“Hamas in Their Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 2, 2011, http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/muslim-arab-world/c/hamas-in-their-own-words.html.

“...the Jewish faith does not wish for peace nor stability, since it is a faith that is based on murder: 'I kill, therefore I am'... Israel is based only on blood and murder in order to exist, and it will disappear, with Allah's will, through blood and Shahids [martyrs].”“Hamas in Their Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 2, 2011, http://www.adl.org/anti-semitism/muslim-arab-world/c/hamas-in-their-own-words.html.

“Why should any Palestinian ‘recognize’ the monstrous crime carried out by Israel's founders and continued by its deformed modern apartheid state...” Moussa Abu Marzook, “Hamas’ Stand,” Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2007, http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-marzook10jul10-story.html#axzz2wYFiHYTy.

“They [the Jews] have taken part in actions and movements that serve global Zionism first and foremost, and are working diligently at corrupting people and making them abandon their values, their moral and religious values, and spread all kinds of abominations throughout society... Our Islam religion compels us to fight the corrupt and denounce them.”Roee Nahmias, “Yemenite Jews under threat,” Ynetnews, January 22, 2007, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355506,00.html.