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HAMAS IN ITS OWN WORDS:
- "We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on
oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the
assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to
offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs." (Source: Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip commenting on the killing of Osama Bin Laden, May 2, 2011)
- "Whoever is killed by a Jew receives the reward of two martyrs,
because the very thing that the Jews did to the prophets was done to
him. (Source: Sermon delivered by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of
culture, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV, April 8, 2011, translation by
MEMRI).
- "The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl
upon the face of the Earth, because they have displayed hostility to
Allah. (Source: Sermon delivered by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of
culture, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV, April 8, 2011, translation by
MEMRI).
- "Allah will kill the Jews in the hell of the world to come, just like they killed the believers in the hell of this world. (Source: Sermon delivered by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of
culture, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV, April 8, 2011, translation by
MEMRI).
- "The Jews kill anyone who believes in Allah. They do not want to see any peace whatsoever on Earth." (Source: Sermon
delivered by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of culture,
which aired on Al-Aqsa TV, April 8, 2011, translation by MEMRI).
- “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." (Source: Statement
from Hamas Ministry of Refugee Affairs on U.N. Relief and Works Agency
plan to include Holocaust education in the curriculum taught Palestinian
refugees, February 28, 2011)
- "The lie of the Zionist Holocaust crumbles with countless holocausts
committed by the Zionists in Beit Hanoun, al-Fakhoura school and other
places in Palestine." (Source: Hamas
leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, speaking at a memorial service for
Palestinians killed during the 2008 Israeli war in Gaza, January 6, 2011)
- "Palestine is Islamic, and not an Islamic emirate, from the river to
the sea, that unites the Palestinians. Jews have no right in it, with
the exception of those who lived on the land of Palestine before World
War I." (Source: Hamas official Halil Al-Hayya, Al-Hayat newspaper, November 11, 2010)
- "We have liberated Gaza, but have we recognized Israel? Have we
given up our lands occupied in 1948? We demand the liberation of the
West Bank, and the establishment of a state in the West Bank and Gaza,
with Jerusalem as its capital – but without recognizing [Israel]. This
is the key – without recognizing the Israeli enemy on a single inch of
land. ... Our plan for this stage is to liberate any inch of Palestinian
land, and to establish a state on it. Our ultimate plan is [to have]
Palestine in its entirety. I say this loud and clear so that nobody will
accuse me of employing political tactics. We will not recognize the
Israeli enemy. " (Source: Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, Future News TV, June 15, 2010, Source: MEMRI.org)
- Hamas "must lay the foundation for a tomorrow without Zionists." (Source: Hamas leader Mahmoud a-Zahar, Al-Aqsa TV, January 4, 2009)
- "This is the time for the third uprising... Resistance will continue through suicide missions." (Source: Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal, Damascus, Syria, December 27, 2008)
- "Hamas will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood." (Source: Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, calling for a resumption of suicide attacks on Gaza radio, December 27, 2008)
- "Israel will pay a heavy price for its crimes against the
Palestinians. Israel's actions enhance our determination to pursue the
path of resistance through all means available. … [Israel is] committing
a holocaust as the whole world watches and doesn't lift a finger to
stop it." (Source: Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, December 25, 2008)
- "We won't succumb to the logic of threats made by the Zionist war
criminals. Today we are prepared more than ever to foil any aggression
against our people." (Source: Leaflet issued by Izzadin Kassam, the armed wing of Hamas, December 25, 2008)
- "It is our right as an occupied people to defend ourselves from the
occupation by all means possible including suicide attacks." (Source: Hamas leader Ayman Taha, December 22, 2008)
- "...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]." (Source: Dr. Yussuf Al-Sharafi, Hamas representative, April 12, 2007; as reported by Palestinian Media Watch, April 23, 2007)
- "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... 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." (Source: Sheikh
Dr. Ahmad Bahar, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council,
April 20, 2007; as reported by Palestinian Media Watch, April 23, 2007)
- "We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of
Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of
Palestine. . . So be assured doctor Ayman, and all those who love
Palestine like yourself, that Hamas is still the group you knew when it
was founded and it will never abandon its path. (Source: Hamas statement in response to criticism by Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri, March 12, 2007)
- "[The Tel Aviv suicide bombing] is an an act of self defense... [it
is] a natural result of the continued Israeli crimes against our
people." (Source: Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman, April 17, 2006)
- "[Hamas will] never recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist state that was founded on our land." (Source: Khaled Mashaal, Hamas leader, February 3, 2006, Al-Hayyat al-Jedida)
- "[Hamas] will not change a single word in its covenant [which is calling for the destruction of Israel]." (Source: Mahmoud Zahar, Hamas leader, after casting his vote in the Gaza Strip, January 25, 2006, Ha'aretz)
- "They have tried to pressure Hamas to abandon resistance and to
abandon arms. They tried to pressure Hamas to abandon its strategic
choice in Palestine, all of Palestine. They tried to pressure Hamas to
recognize the legitimacy of the occupation. But they failed... We say
Hamas will not change its constant principles." (Source: Ismail Haniyah, Hamas leader, at an election rally in Gaza, January 20, 2006, Reuters)
- "The constants and the strategy of Hamas do not change according to
circumstances. Hamas will stay faithful to jihad, to resistance, to
guns, to Palestine and to Jerusalem." (Source: Ismail Haniyah, Hamas leader, at an election rally in Gaza, January 20, 2006, Gulf Daily News, Bahrain)
- "Hamas is not hostile to Jews because they are Jews. We are hostile
to them because they occupied our land and expelled our people.... We
did not say we want to throw the Jews in the sea or feed them to sharks.
We just said that there is a land called occupied Palestine. It was
burglarized and it needs to be returned to the Palestinian people." (Source: Ismail Haniyah, Hamas leader, January 18, 2006, AP)
- "We do not recognize the Israeli enemy, nor his right to be our
neighbor, nor to stay (on the land), nor his ownership of any inch of
land.... We are interested in restoring our full rights to return all
the people of Palestine to the land of Palestine. Our principles are
clear: Palestine is a land of Waqf (Islamic trust), which can not be
given up." (Source: Mahmoud Zahar, Hamas leader and candidate to the Palestinian legislative council, Palestinian TV, January 17, 2006, Newsday)
- "The program [of Hamas-backed list to legislative council] sets out
the details and means for its implementation over the next four years,
while the [Hamas] charter talks about vision and strategy…The movement
is adhering to the constants and strategies outlined in the [Hamas]
charter." (Source: Hamas
spokesman, Sami Abu-Zuhri, explains to Al-Sharq al-Awsat that there is
no contradiction between Hamas' platform for the election and its
charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, January 13, 2006,
BBC Monitoring)
- "The Taliban are 1,000 times more honorable than the American
occupation and its collaborators… We are not a copy of the Taliban...
Judge us according to what we are. Everyone must stop blaming the
Taliban for things that in fact characterize the people of the West, who
seek to turn the international community into a swamp of corruption and
destruction, and to spread abomination and disease in the name of
absolute freedom.... We are part of Allah's promise that Islam will
enter Palestine and every home in the world, with a revelation of the
power of Allah the Omnipotent, and a revelation of the inferiority of
the infidels. Hamas is leading this plan in Gaza, the West Bank, and the
1948 territories, and the Muslim Brotherhood is leading it everywhere
else. This is part of Allah's predestination." (Source: Dr. Mahmoud Zahar, interview in Arabic with elaph.com, October 11, 2005, MEMRI)
- "The vanquishing of the enemy in Gaza does not mean that this stage
has ended. We still have Jerusalem and the pure West Bank. We will not
rest until we liberate all our land, all our Palestine. We do not
distinguish between what was occupied in the 1940s and what was occupied
in the 1960s. Our Jihad continues, and we still have a long way to go.
We will continue until the very last usurper is driven out of our land."
(Source: Sheik Nizar Rayan, Hamas "political" leader, at a rally in Gaza, Al-Jazeera TV on September 16, 2005, MEMRI)
- "We stand here on our liberated land, near the armistice borders. We
remember when Sharon said that Netzarim is like Tel Aviv. Hamas has
said, via the lion of Palestine [Rantisi], that Gaza is like Tel Aviv.
The promise that has been fulfilled and will be fulfilled in the future,
oh Sharon, is the promise of Allah, and the promise of Hamas. Behold,
Palestine is being liberated, Allah willing.... We have come here in
multitudes to proclaim that Hirbiya and Ashkelon will be taken by the
mujahideen. We have come here to say that the weapons of the resistance
that you see here will remain, Allah willing, so that we can liberate
Palestine – all of Palestine – from the Sea to the River, whether they
like it or not." (Source: Mushir al-Masri, Hamas spokesman, at a rally in Gaza, Al-Jazeera TV on September 16, 2005, MEMRI)
- "We knew that Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and
Muslims. America declared war against God. Sharon declared war against
God, and God declared war against America, Bush and Sharon." (Source: Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi (killed in April 2004) at a rally in Gaza, March 28, 2004, AP)
- "The Zionists didn't carry out their operation without getting the
consent of the terrorist American Administration, and it must take
responsibility for this crime. All the Muslims of the world will be
honored to join in on the retaliation for this crime. (Source: Hamas statement issued after the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2004)
- "She [first Hamas woman suicide bomber] is not going to be the last
because the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic flag is
raised, not only over the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the whole
universe." (Source: Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, at funeral of Reem Raiyshi, who murdered 4 people, January 15, 2004, AP)
- "By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine. We will fight them
with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews..." (Source: Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas leader, June 10, 2003, interview with Al-Jazeera, Jerusalem Post)
- "You will have no security except outside the homeland Palestine....
We have Allah on our side, and we have the sons of the Arab and Islamic
nation on our side." (Source: Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas leader, June 10, 2003, interview with Al-Jazeera, Jerusalem Post)
- "America is implementing Zionist Israeli policy to serve the Zionist
project in Palestine. The battle America is undertaking is designed to
allow Israel to remain in the Palestinian homeland...." (Source: Sheik Ahmed Yassin -- killed in March 2004 -- January 30, 2003, Teheran Times)
- "Zionist Israeli and Jewish policy is to strike every power emerging
in the Arab and Muslim world… Any country that develops power
threatening to this entity (Israel), they want to smash it." (Source: Sheik Ahmed Yassin -- killed in March 2004 -- January 30, 2003, Teheran Times)
- "Suicide attacks and jihad reinforce national unity in the
ranks....Our voice is one of struggle, of jihad and of suicide....Iraq
could win if it equipped its citizens with explosive belts and turned
them into human bombs." (Source: Sheik Ahmed Yassin, interview with the Muslim website Alskifa, January 10, 2003, translated by Israel Defense Forces)
- "Because the Israeli and American enemies are ravaging the earth;
they do not believe in anything besides power. The Ummah must adopt the
principle of Jihad and fighting the enemies." (Source: Sheik Ahmed Yassin, interview with Australian Muslim youth magazine, Nida'ul Islam, June/ July 2002)
- "The Movement within two months [after the intifada broke] was able
to launch qualitative operations that shook the world… there are
qualitative Jihad operations such as those in Natanya and Khadera. We
are proud of such operations and the next days will witness better and
bigger ones.... I say that the final battle will result in our victory
and that this land will reject this enemy similar to its predecessors...
It is not a must that it would be in 2027 for it could be five years
earlier or ten years later. The important thing is that the equation
revolves round 2027 and the Hebrew state would end Insha'allah [God
willing]. (Source: Early Hamas communiqués distributed by Islamic Association for Palestine)
- "Come to jihad, come to jihad, come to martyrdom..."
"Those thirsty for Jihad all over the world. For the sake of Allah. For
liberating the land of Palestine and Jerusalem.... We declared and
continue to declare now, that a Jew is a Jew... [do not trust them when
they say they want peace because they act only] to serve their religion
and their people." (Source: Hamas communiqué, March 9, 1989, translated and distributed in the U.S. by the Islamic Association for Palestine)
- "The Jews: killed the prophets…slaughtered the innocent…imprisoned our pious... NO PEACE WITH THE MURDERERS." (Source: Hamas communiqué, October 5, 1988, translated and distributed in the U.S. by the Islamic Association for Palestine)
- "The Nazi Jews tried different methods.... Let everyone know that
Hamas ... is only against Jews and those twisted in their manner ... it
realizes the Jews' methods in trying to cause hostility and friction
between people.... We should lend punches to the Jews wherever possible
[to commemorate Muhammad's defeat of one of the Jewish tribes of
Arabia]." (Source: Hamas communiqué, September 8, 1988, translated and distributed in the U.S. by the Islamic Association for Palestine)
- “‘I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so
strike them over the necks, and smite all their fingers and toes.You
have killed them not, but Allah killed them’.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Truly, the destruction of the state of Israel is a Quranic inevitability.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “The language of bullets and bombs is the only language that the Jews understand.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “We tell them [the Israelis]: in as much as you love life—the Muslims love death and martyrdom.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas!” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “The Jews are a cancer that is spreading and is threatening the entire Islamic world.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “[Jews are] brothers of the apes, assassins of the prophets,
bloodsuckers, and war mongers. . . . Only Islam can break the Jews and
destroy their dream.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “They [the Zionists] established a state to protect the Jews from death
and murder. If death and murder chase them in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,
Netanya . . . then they will say: I want to flee and go back to Europe
and America.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “The Islamic Movement gives its condolences to the hero [a suicide bomber] of the attack [at
Beit Lid in January 1995], which led to the killing of twenty pigs [Jews] and
injuring of sixty monkeys [Jews].” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “The war is open until Israel ceases to exist and until the last Jew in the world is eliminated.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “You [America] will face the mirror of your history for a long time to
come. . . . [With the 9/11 attacks] Allah has answered our prayers.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “We are in love with the color of blood.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Palestine is a green tree whose thirst can only be quenched with the blood of martyrs.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Our words remain dead until we die in their cause.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “Hamas has won the
election on the Israeli body county ticket.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- “When the blood of martyrs
irrigates the land, roses appear.”
- “The children are the holy martyrs of
tomorrow.” (Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
- "Israel is not a legitimate entity, and no amount of pressure can force us to recognize its right to exist." (Dr. Mahmud Al-Zahar, Hamas leader in Gaza, Washington Times, February 4, 2006)
- "Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah
willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and
degradation every day." (Dr. Mahmud Al-Zahar, Hamas leader in Gaza, Washington Times, February 4, 2006)
- "Neither the liberation of the Gaza Strip nor the liberation of the
West Bank or even Jerusalem will suffice us. Hamas will pursue the armed
struggle until the liberation of all our lands. We don't recognize the
state of Israel or its right to hold onto one inch of Palestine.
Palestine is an Islamic land belonging to all the Muslims." (Dr. Mahmud Al-Zahar, Hamas leader in Gaza, The Jerusalem Post, August 18, 2005)
- "Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is
not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the
world, Allah willing." (Khalid al-Mish'al, leader of Hamas, Al-Jazeera TV, February 3, 2006)
- "She [Hamas suicide bomber Re'em Al-Riyashi] is not going to be the
last because the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic
flag is raised, not only over the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the
whole universe." (Dr. Mahmud Al-Zahar, Hamas leader in Gaza, Associated Press, January 15, 2004)
- "To hell with you all." (Khalid al-Mish'al, leader of Hamas, speaking about German Chancellor Merkel's call for Hamas to recognize Israel, Al-Jazeera TV, February 3, 2006)
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