On Israel

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, November 2009

Date
Nov. 2009
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

"The (resistance) is a permanent national necessity that should last as long as the Israeli threat, and in the absence of a strong, stable state in Lebanon.”Nadim Ladki, “Hezbollah Cuts Islamist Rhetoric in New Manifesto,” Reuters, November 30, 2009, accessed August 4, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/30/us-lebanon-hezbollah-idUSTRE5AT3VK20091130.

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Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman, August 2009

Date
Aug. 2009
Name of Author
Sami Abu Zuhri
Body

In reference to the U.N.’s suggestion to include what Zuhri calls the “so-called Holocaust” in Gaza’s school curriculum: “We think it's more important to teach Palestinians the crimes of the Israeli occupation.”“Hamas leader denies Nazi genocide of Jews,” USA Today, August 31, 2009, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-31-hamas-holocaust_N.htm.

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Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzouk, 2007

Date
2007
Name of Author
Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzouk
Body

“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.

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Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, September 2006

Date
Sep. 2006
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“It was an American war by providing the arms and the planning and by giving deadline after deadline to the enemy. What stopped the war was the Zionists' failure to defeat us."“Hezbollah Leader: Militants ‘Won’t Surrender Arms’,” CNN, September 22, 2006, accessed October 23, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/lebanon.rally/.

Threat

Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, September 2006

Date
Sep. 2006
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“Today the resistance owns more than 25,000 missiles. ... The resistance has been able to regroup and rearm and regain its capability.”“Hezbollah Leader: Militants ‘Won’t Surrender Arms’,” CNN, September 22, 2006, accessed October 23, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/22/lebanon.rally/.

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Ismail Haniyeh, then–Hamas-designated disputed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, August 2006

Date
Aug. 2006
Name of Author
Ismail Haniyeh
Body

“We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem.” “Palestinian Prime Minister Vows Not to Recognize Israel,” Associated Press, December 8, 2006, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-12-08-palestinian-pm_x.htm.

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Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General, July 2006

Date
Jul. 2006
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

One day after a suicide bomber explodes in Tel Aviv: “There is no other means for the Palestinians to defend themselves. That is why I cannot condemn this type of operation in occupied Palestine."Robin Wright, “Inside the Mind of Hezbollah,” Washington Post, July 16, 2006, accessed October 28, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401401_pf.html.

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Khaled Meshaal, Hamas political bureau chief, February 3, 2006

Date
Feb. 3, 2006
Name of Author
Khaled Meshaal
Body

“Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.” ““Hamas Leader Khaled Mash’al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse When It Is Too Late,” MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute, February 3, 2006, http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1024.htm.

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Ali Khamenei, January 31, 2002

Author
Date
Jan. 31, 2002
Name of Author
Ali Khamenei
Body

“Ever since the emergence of the cancerous tumor of Zionism in Palestine, the Western countries have been acting in collusion with the Zionist regime. In other words, Israel has been tasked with protecting the regional interests of the Western powers by posing a constant threat to the security of the Islamic countries in the region. And the Western countries, in return, have pledged to fully support this cancerous tumor. Today, it is the United States that is playing a major role in supporting the Zionist entity.” “Leader's Statements in a Meeting with Participants in IWMC,” The Center for preserving and Publishing the Works of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, January 31, 2002, http://english.khamenei.ir//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=31.

Hassan Nasrallah, 2002

Date
2002
Name of Author
Hassan Nasrallah
Body

“If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”Badih Chayban, “Nasrallah Alleges ‘Christian Zionist’ Plot,” The Daily Star. October 23, 2002, accessed June 3, 2014, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2002/Oct-23/21779-nasrallah-alleges-christian-zionist-plot.ashx#axzz33cF0Jcty.

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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