Wars and Rumors of War

Islamic Jihad: “The Zionists and the Americans are coordinated 100%. It doesn’t matter who attacks Iran, we are planning to hit them both.” —A senior leader of Islamic Jihad, February 26, 2007

Hamas: “Hamas will never show flexibility over the issue of recognizing the legitimacy of the occupation [Israel].” ––Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, January 15, 2007

PRC: “We are preparing the tomb that Allah is digging for the Zionists and Americans…The war will be a war on more than one front. It will be everybody against everybody. Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, and the Palestinian organizations will work together. War with Iran is coming, and it means the Middle East will not remain the same after it.” —A senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committee terror group, February 27, 2007

Israel: “Road maps, capitulation, gestures, disengagements, convergences, deportations, and so forth do not bring peace. On the contrary, they bring war, just as we saw last summer. These things send a clear signal to our ‘cousins’ [the Arabs] that we are tired. That we no longer have spiritual strength, that we have no time, that we are calling for a time-out. They only whet their appetites. It only encourages them to pressure us more, to demand more, and not to give up on anything…Capitulations bring about war; determination and readiness bring about peace. We must tell our ‘cousins’ that we are staying here. We are not moving. We have time; we have patience; we have stamina…We must not simply say it to our cousins but feel it within ourselves. This and only this will bring peace. We can really live in peace and unity and cooperation with our cousins. But only after they understand and internalize that the Zionist state will be here forever.” —Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Israel J. Aumann, Herzliya Conference, January 2007