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| November 4, 2012
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Hezbollah under fire, but its hold is solid

Despite Syria’s conflict & depleted funding, terror group unlikely to loose strangle-hold on Lebanon

By the Associated Press

A maze of military bunkers and tunnels carved into a mountain near the border with Israel hints at why the Shiite Hezbollah movement is unlikely to lose its grip in Lebanon despite the setbacks it has suffered because of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Mleeta, a former staging ground for Hezbollah’s battles with Israel that has been turned into a sprawling tourist attraction, is emblematic of the base of its power: its arsenal and military prowess.

That base ultimately remains firm, even if Hezbollah has faced sharper criticism among Lebanese for its siding with Syria’s regime in the civil war and even if it has reportedly suffered some reduction in aid from its top patron, Iran, squeezed by Western sanctions. Continue Reading »

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| August 8, 2012
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Apparently, Hassan Nasrallah Gets a Taste of his own Medicine

Hezbollah’s support of the Assad regime is no longer a secret. One can assume that these senior Hezbollah people were not innocent pilgrims, but rather on a mission to Iran, to coordinate operations of the Assad regime & its allies, Hezbollah & the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

By Avi Melamed

 
While the world continues to witness the ongoing tragedy in Syria, there is another “mini-drama” simultaneously taking place in that country which is no less significant.

Hassan Nasrallah tells Israel to keep its hands off Lebanon’s oil & gas.

On May 22nd reports began to flow in from different sources that Lebanese Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran had been kidnapped inside Syria. Continue Reading »

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| August 2, 2012
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Is Nasrallah Being Recalled to Iran?

Report in A Siasa, a Kuwaiti newspaper: Iran has ordered Hizbullah head to leave Lebanon if Assad falls.

By Gil Ronen

 

Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has instructed the head of Iranian proxy Hizbullah to leave Lebanon and move to Iran if Syria’s Bashar Assad falls from power, a Kuwaiti newspaper reports.

The paper, A Siasa, explains that the Iranian leadership has been weighing two possible courses of action, in case Iran’s protégé and partner Assad is toppled.

The first option includes supplying Hizbullah with state-of-the-art heavy weapons and enlarging the number of Iranian soldiers in Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| July 29, 2012
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Goldwasser’s widow: ‘May Nasrallah Never See the Light of Day’

Karnit Goldwasser, widow of Ehud Goldwasser who was kidnapped & murdered by Hizbullah terrorists, attacks the terror group.

By Elad Benari

 

Karnit Goldwasser, whose husband Ehud was kidnapped and murdered by Hizbullah terrorists in 2006, attacked the terror group and the European Union after a Lebanese television station showed a video which documents the Hizbullah squad as it attacked her husband’s jeep.

“This is another manipulation by [Hizbullah head] Nasrallah,” Goldwasser said in an interview on Channel 2 News on Saturday evening. “The first manipulation was when he kidnapped our loved ones for vile purposes. That’s the difference between human beings and those who say they are human beings. Continue Reading »

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| July 19, 2012
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Hezbollah’s missiles are Syrian, boasts Nasrallah

In his speech marking Second Lebanon War’s 6th anniversary, Nasrallah says ‘shahids’ killed in Damascus blast were ‘our comrades in struggle against Israeli enemy’

By Roi Kais

 

 

“Israel is rejoicing today because the pillars of the Syrian Army were hit. That’s what Israel wants – that Syria won’t have a strong army, only a police force,” Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah told supporters in Beirut Wednesday via video feed.

Nasrallah's address Photo: AFP

Nasrallah’s address
Photo: AFP

Nasrallah, who addressed the crowd to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, pointed out the ties between his organization and the Syrian regime and praised the top Syrian officials who were killedin Wednesday’s blast in Damascus for their support of the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| June 27, 2012
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Leading Lebanese TV station attacked in Beirut over critisism of Nasralla

Al-Jadeed TV station attacked with burning tires after airing interview with Sunni cleric who threatened Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

By Associated Press

 

Masked men attacked the headquarters of a leading Lebanese TV station with burning tires after it hosted a hard-line Sunni Muslim cleric who harshly criticized the country’s Shiite Muslim leaders, police said Tuesday.

Sheik Ahmad al-Aseer (archive) Photo: AP

Sheik Ahmad al-Aseer (archive) - Photo: AP

Video footage of the Monday night attack taken by security cameras and broadcast on local television showed five masked figures assaulting the headquarters of Al-Jadeed TV in Beirut.

The attackers also fired several shots at the building, police said, leaving it damaged only lightly and causing no casualties. Continue Reading »

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| May 26, 2012
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Nasrallah: Fences Won’t Ensure Israel’s Existence

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatens Israel (from his hiding place) as Lebanon marks 12 years since Israel withdrew its troops.

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel on Friday, saying the Jewish State is hiding behind walls and fences and that these cannot ensure its future existence.

Nasrallah addresses supporters via video in Bint Jbeil

Nasrallah addresses supporters via video in Bint Jbeil - Reuters

Nasrallah made the comments during a video speech which was broadcast during a rally in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, marking 12 years since Israel withdrew its troops from Lebanon.

“The Israelis withdrew from southern Lebanon, began to build a fence in the West Bank, and now they are talking about building a fence along the border with Egypt or building a fence along the border with Jordan,” Channel 2 News quoted Nasrallah as having said in the speech, which was recorded from his hiding place. Continue Reading »

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| May 12, 2012
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Nasrallah: Hezbollah able to strike anywhere in Israel

Amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Hezbollah chief claims Lebanese militant group is capable of striking any target in Israel, including Tel Aviv.


Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his militant group was capable of striking any target in neighboring Israel, saying “the days when we fled and they did not are over.”

“Today we are not only able to hit Tel Aviv as a city but, God willing, we are able to hit specific targets in Tel Aviv and anywhere in occupied Palestine,” Nasrallah said in a televised address.

“For every building destroyed in Dahiya, a building will be destroyed in Tel Aviv,” he said, referring to Hezbollah’s stronghold in a suburb of southern Beirut.

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