Militant Tactics Quotes

If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

'Black bloc' is a tactic that Antifa and other militant movements use where they adopt, essentially, a uniform of wearing black clothing, long sleeve, and mask and sunglasses completely.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

I want people to be confronted by the brutality of the Antifa movement.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

Stop the normalisation of political violence against the Right!

Be it Resolved, That we urgently call upon the wage earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be effective: Violence.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.

Notice that the leaders of Hamas do not send their own sons and daughters, and their own grandchildren, to blow themselves up …

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

Some definitions of ‘terrorist’ are so broad that they can be stretched to include anything from strikes to land occupations.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

All we wanted to do was fight against Israel. But the Jordanian government saw us as a problem. This was their problem. We thought that the way to attract the world’s attention to our problem was to hijack airplanes.

Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

My coverage of Antifa has been critical: not just critical of the hooliganism and the street violence because violence, of course, is easy to condemn. I am critical of the underlying ideology as well.