2006 War Made Hezbollah Regional Power, Syria Crisis To Make it Intl. One: Nasrallah

Speaking in an exclusive interview with al-Manar on Friday, Nasrallah said he is “confident” that Hezbollah “would emerge victorious from any new war with Israel."
 
Hezbollah chief said the Lebanese movement fought one of world's most powerful armies during the 2006 war and achieved the victory, while the military force used by Tel Aviv Regime in 33-day war was larger than that 'Israel' employed during all the Arab-Israeli wars.
 
Nasrallah slammed some former Lebanese officials and Arab states for providing Israel with the political, media and military support.
 
 “In 2006 Israel agreed on holding the ceasefire agreement, but some Lebanese factions and Arab regimes insisted on disarming Hezbollah before ending the war. Do they consider Israel as an enemy? Does the dignity of the Ummah (unified Muslim world) and Al-Quds (Jerusalem) mean anything to them? They do have different calculations.”
 
Sayyed Nasrallah said that the Lebanese army stuck to its patriotic creed during 2006 war, sacrificed scores of its soldiers and supported the Resistance in the battlefield, but that PM Fad Siniora wanted the army to disarm and clash with Hezbollah.
 
"Siniora ordered the Army to confiscate the trucks which used to move Hezbollah missiles from Bekaa to the South, revealing that the party's leadership, President Lahoud and Speaker Berri threatened the PM to undo his orders."
 
The Secretary General also revealed that the missiles that Hezbollah fired against Israeli regime during the 2006 war came from the Syrian military industry, and they were not manufactured in Iran.
 
"The Lebanese army has all the weaponry, equipment and human conditions to defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens, but the political decision of the government is not resolute."
 
"The other party claims that the Lebanese army can confront the Zionist aggression but says that it cannot defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens", he added.
 
Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the Lebanese army can defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens, but that Nusra Front has allies in the Lebanese government.
 
"The war was aimed at eliminating the resistance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, and eventually isolating Iran. What is happening in Syria is a form of revenge for that war,” he said, referring to the foreign-backed militancy against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
 
 "The Israelis knew that a direct military confrontation would not lead to Hezbollah’s defeat and that a war with Iran was not helpful. That is why they chose to take out Syria from the axis of resistance,” Nasrallah said.
 
Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized that Hezbollah has gained a vast military experience from Syria war, which frightens the Israelis and will help the Resistance in its Galilee operation.
 
"If Hezbollah emerged from 2006 war a regional power, it will emerge from Syria crisis an international power."
 
Sayyed Nasrallah also said that if Turkey blocks its border with Syria, most of the crisis would be ended as the military and human support to the terrorists would be stopped, adding the pro-terrorism states plan to get rid of all the gunmen after the end of their missions.
 
Touching on Saudi Arabia's destructive role in the region, Sayyed Nasrallah said  "The former Saudi security official Bandar bin Sultan visited Moscow to convince Putin to send terrorists from Chechnya and Dagestan to fight the Syrian army in order to kill them there."
 
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that the deal according to which the Zionist entity was established includes the Arab kings who are charged with protecting Israel, adding that the Arab militaries have been always powerful, except for the regimes which ban fighting the Zionists.
 
"If chaos pervades in the region and the Arab regimes collapse, people will certainly wipe out the Zionist entity, liberate Palestine and pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque."
 
Sayyed Nasrallah confirmed the solid relations with the Palestinian resistance factions, saying that Palestine is grander than all the other causes.
 
"I think that the resistance factions cannot accept the normalization of the relations with the Zionist entity."
 
About the Islamic unity, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the situation is not tragic, noting that what is going on in Syria is not a Sunni-Shiite confrontation as scores of those who fight for the Army are Sunnis.
 
"Those Who liberated Fallujah are the Sunni tribal forces. But the Gulf media has sought classifying the battle as sectarian."
 
Sayyed Nasrallah considered that Syria crisis pervades awareness, exposes the mean and prepares the Umma for the major victory of liberating Palestine.
 
Israel is facing a strategic dilemma after defeating its scheme, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who expected that the Zionists flee the Palestine as they did when they escaped from Lebanon in 2000.
 
"The US and Zionist schemes will fail to involve the Arab people in confronting the Resistance, which will eradicate the Zionist enemy."
 
Tackling media siege imposed on Al-Manar TV, Sayyed Nasrallah vowed to break it, asserting Hezbollah channel will keep performing its major duties via all the technological means, eliminating the possibility of renaming the outlet due to its symbolic and historical position.