Other terrorist groups and their supporters have joined Hamas and Al Qaeda in threatening Israel and the Jews during Israel's military action in Gaza. For example:

• The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called for the "takeover of embassies of Israel and its allies" on their English language Web site. Ahmad Sa'adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of PFLP, issued a statement also called for "Gaza to be turned into a graveyard for the occupiers," according to the Web site.

• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that "northern Israel will burn as Gaza is burning" and expressed that "Israel is the enemy of the world of Islam." He also said, "We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our brothers and sisters, our children, our loved ones for what we believe in."

• Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group named for its location in North Africa, has issued explicit calls for Muslims to attack Jews "wherever they are found." The leader of AQIM, Abdelmalek Droukdel, stated that "chasing Jews away and closing down their embassy, is a debt on our shoulders and we have to give our all to pay it back or die." He also announced that their next target is the Israeli Embassy in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, which was attacked by AQIM in February 2008, wounding three bystanders. 

• Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Muslim Brotherhood ideologue in Qatar, has increasingly been lashing out at Jews and Israel, including calling on God to "kill them, down to the very last one." Qaradawi gave a Friday sermon, which aired on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009, in which he incited violence against the Jews. "Oh Allah," Qaradawi said, "Take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people…do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one." Qaradawi also called on Muslims to boycott Starbucks and other stores that he said support Israel. During a rally in Doha, Qatar, on the same day, Qaradawi urged Arab and Muslim leaders to "fear God and defend Palestine, or you will be swept away by history."

• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fugitive Afghan warlord who has been designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the U.S., has offered to send thousands of Afghan volunteers to fight in Gaza. Following Hekmatyar's announcement, more than a thousand Afghans reportedly signed up to fight Israel, gathering in a library lined with banners reading "Death to Israel." Hekmatyar, who is chief of the Islamic Hezb-e-Islami party that opposes NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, continued his effort to recruit fighters after Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, calling for Muslims to attack American troops in Afghanistan because of the U.S.'s financial and military support for Israel. "This war, which we are helping, is not just a war by Tel Aviv, but rather a new American war against Islam," he said.

• Iranian leaders have also used anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric in response to Israel's military presence in Gaza. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, declared that "anyone who dies in this holy struggle against World Zionism [is] a martyr."  Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously threatened to "wipe Israel off the map," has urged Arabs and Muslims around the world to "confront these aggressors." He even went so far as to address the Israeli soldiers, encouraging them to "protest against your commanders and disobey their orders."

• Several radical Web sites have posted messages calling to attack Israeli and American interests worldwide as well. On the Shumukh Al-Islam forum, a Web site commonly used by Islamic militants, a post reportedly called for attacks on American and Israeli embassies worldwide, and asked for members of the message board to provide information about these embassies. Several posts followed with addresses, links to the embassies Web sites and pictures.