Hassan Nasrallah

Today, the Israelis tightened the noose on the mass media in northern occupied Palestine and occupied Palestine. No one can report any news or broadcast any footage. [News reports] are subject to the Israeli censorship which permits and disseminates them. Even you at Al-Jazeera Channel were subjected to arrests, interrogation, restricted activities, and the like. Why do the Israelis resort to concealing the truth on the other side? Why? Do they do that only because they accuse the media outlets of setting the coordinates? This is nonsense. We have the coordinates of these Israeli settlements and military positions in the north, centre, or in any part of occupied Palestine. We do not need anybody to give us information, images, or the like. In that case, they want to conceal the true scene of the war on the other side because it will have definite impact on the Israeli street and media and the morale of the Israelis.

Hassan Nasrallah, Al-Jazeera interviews Hezbollah chief Al-Jazeera (20 July 2006), 2006

"It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent [...] To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them."

Interview with Robin Wright, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401401_pf.html The Washington Post (16 July 2006), 2006

Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.'"

Al-Manar television (2 February 2005), 2005

[T]he Jews will gather from all parts of the world into occupied Palestine, not in order to bring about the anti-Christ and the end of the world, but rather that Allah the Glorified and Most High wants to save you from having to go to the ends of the world [to kill them], for they have gathered in one place–they have gathered in one place–and there the final and decisive battle will take place.

Source: Speech Transcription and translation, 2002

Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute [...] Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America.

Al-Manar, BBC Monitoring. (27 September 2002), 2002

It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy that should be listed in the terrorism list.

United Press International. (4 November 2001), 2001

Even if [an agreement] is signed we will continue to view [Israel] as an illegitimate and illegal entity”

Al-Hayat (2 January 2000), 2000

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful.

The Washington Post. (2 February 2000). Interview conducted by Antoine K. Kehdy of Middle East Insight magazine., 2000

As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.

On Egyptian television (6 February 2000), 2000

And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood.

Speech at a Hezbollah rally in Beirut (31 December 1999)., 1999