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Hezbollah giving up its weapons … would leave Lebanon exposed before Israel.”
Nasrallah repeatedly turned down calls for his group’s disarmament, saying The deep entanglement between Lebanon and Hezbollah is now being tested and interrogated by those who have long opposed Hezbollah
Dr Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security at the Royal United Services Institute defence and security think tank (RUSI), added We are here paying the price for our front of support for Gaza, and for the Palestinian people, and our adoption of the Palestinian cause,
Nasrallah said in the August 1 speech We are facing a great battle,
Nasrallah said in an August 1 speech at the funeral of Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut In the absence of removing Hezbollah’s military capabilities, or at least promising to contain Hezbollah, I doubt Israel can be reined in by the U.S. government,
There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach,
Better to succeed using new technology and tactics and avoid old rules of invasion because that is a tried and tested method of failure in Lebanon based on previous attempts,
We have prepared for the fleets with which you threaten us."
As regional tensions escalated after the eruption of the Gaza war, Nasrallah issued a thinly veiled warning to U.S. warships in the Mediterranean, telling them Don’t bet on a war against Iran because they will destroy you,
he said in a message directed at Riyadh It (Israel) has a nuclear weapon and the strongest air force in the region, but in truth, it is weaker than a spider’s web.”
In a famous speech marking the Israeli withdrawal, he said America will remain the dreadful enemy and Israel a cancerous growth that should be uprooted.”
Like Musawi, Nasrallah was committed to the struggle against Israel and Khomeini’s anti-Western teachings, and famously declared His eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general had joined his fellow great martyrs whom he had led for 30 years from one victory to another,
Hezbollah said in a statement You ask me, if I had known ... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not,
Hezbollah will not collapse if Nasrallah is killed or incapacitated, but this will be a major blow to the group’s morale. It would also underline Israel’s security and military superiority and access,
said Lina Khatib, an associate fellow at the Chatham House policy institute in London They are breaking Hezbollah's power. There's no need to kill every member of Hezbollah but if you destroy its combat structure and force them to surrender. It loses credibility,
Israel has declared war. It is a full-scale war, and Israel is using this opportunity to eliminate the leadership structure and destroy Hezbollah's infrastructure,
said Fawaz Gerges, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics Israel will want to translate this pressure into a new status quo in which its north is secure, but this will not happen quickly even if Nasrallah is eliminated,
He became a legendary figure, kind of, for the Lebanese Shia,
Let (the enemy) prepare himself to cry and wail,
He has been the glue that has held together an expanding organisation,