Middle East Hate Quiz megoldókulcsa:

1. D
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. D
11. A
12. C

Érdeklődők (és kételkedők) számára pedig íme az eredeti idézetek:

1.

[those killed] were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things which should not be done. They had been reincarnated in order to atone.

D. Ovadia Yosef rabbi, szokásos szombat esti prédikációinak egyik 2009-es rádióközvetítésében.

2.

Anybody who wants to damage this fortress and other fortresses we are establishing will have his head smashed against the boulders and walls.

C. Jichak Samir izraeli miniszterelnök a palesztin fegyveresekről, 1988.

3.

The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.

B. Jasszer Arafat, lánya 1995-ös születésnapi ünnepségén.

4.

We will defend our children. If the hand of any two-footed animal is raised against them, that hand will be cut off, and our children will grow up in joy in the homes of their parents.

B. Menachem Begin izraeli miniszterelnök az általa kilátásba helyezett terrorelhárítási módszerekről, 1982.

5.

As for us, we are training because we have no military experience and since we lack this experience we have to handle that for our youth has turned soft and needs physical training as well as intellectual.That's the idea behind the military training and that's what we are doing now. And this will be never used against democracy. What we are doing isn't fascism, fascism is impossible in this country.

B. Camille Chamoun, volt libanoni elnök, 1975.

6.

Civilization does not mean that you face a rocket with a stick or a jet-fighter with a kite, or a warship with a sailboat. . . .One must face force with equal or superior force. If it is legitimate to defend self and land and destiny, then all means of self-defense are legitimate

B. Mohamed Husszein Fadlallah ajatollah, a Hezbollah spirituális vezetője, 1984.

7.

Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: "Ye shall blot them out to the last man." We are particularly far from having any qualms with regard to the enemy, whose moral degradation is universally admitted here.

But first and foremost, terrorism is for us a part of the political battle being conducted under the present circumstances, and it has a great part to play: speaking in a clear voice to the whole world, as well as to our wretched brethren outside this land, it proclaims our war against the occupier.

A. Jichak Samir, a Hehazit c. újság egy 1943-as számában.

8.

The Zionists wish to lend their malicious actions a religious guise, when [the fact is that] there is no connection whatsoever between Israel's racist regime and the [religious] mantle of Judaism. [The Zionist regime] wishes to realize its evil and dangerous political ideas by using Judaism and its laws. Until Zionism is destroyed, there will be no peace and quiet in the world.

C. Dzsafar Mosen Zadeh, khayrabadi vallási vezető egy pénteki imában, 2013.

9.

The European races are barbaric. They wear freshly pressed suits and ties, and they smell of eau de cologne, but deep down, they still have the same barbaric nature known from history. They kill with ease. They murder people without any problem. Therefore, beating women in their homes is of no consequence to the [Europeans] and Americans, whereas in an Islamic environment, it is unimaginable.

D. Ali Khamenei, az európaiakról és amerikaiakról, egy nők ügyeivel foglalkozó 2010-es konferencián.

10.

There is no question whether a reaction is necessary or not. The only question is when and where. Blowing up a house is not enough, especially if it's not the right one. There is a need for a brutal and firm response. We need precision in time, place and casualties. If we definitely know the (culpable) family – hit without mercy, including the women and children of this family who might be there. Otherwise the reaction will not be effective. In the actual place of action, there is no need to distinguish between guilty and innocent.

D. Részlet David Ben-Gurion egy 1948-as naplóbejegyzéséből.

11.

It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. […] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

A. Ovadia Yosef rabbi egy prédikációjában.

12.

Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland.....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation

C. Hafez al-Aszad szír honvédelmi miniszter nyilatkozata az 1967-es arab-izraeli háború előtt.