In Any Upcoming War, Hezbollah Will Displace Millions Of
Israelis
By Hassan Nasrallah
" What awaits you today is much
worse than what you experienced in 2006"
June 07, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" -
Speech of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, on June 5,
2015
Translation from Arabic : Sayed Hasan
The first point concerns the Israeli enemy.
A few days ago, we have seen, in occupied Palestine, that the enemy government
conducted military manoeuvres on the home front called “Turning Point 8”. The
number 8 refers to the fact that we are in 2015, and after the July War (2006),
after analysing the situation, everyone in Israel agreed unanimously that Israel
was defeated – with unanimity, no one claims Israel won the war. Of course, in
Lebanon, there are some who claim that Israel won, but in Israel, nobody claims
it, and they recognize that they have suffered a failure, that they were
defeated and crushed, etc. And you remember that they organized an Investigation
Commission [Winograd], and since then, they discovered that something was over,
that in the July War (2006), something new had entered the equation, namely
strikes against the home front of the enemy entity which could now be targeted
and hit.
Previously the Israeli home front was always – or at least most of the time –
preserved from wars: Israeli wars were taking place (exclusively) in our
territories. But during the July War (2006), and after it, of course, during the
wars in Gaza, Israel has discovered that this was not the case anymore, and that
the war was going on inside enemy territory, the Palestinian territory occupied
by the enemy.
Israel has been forced to conduct manoeuvres on the home front: when missiles
fall on Haifa, Tel Aviv, on the North, the Centre and the South, how is it
supposed to deal with populations? How it will operate its hospitals, roads,
schools, commercial activities, airports, ports, etc? So these manoeuvres were
done on the home front to prepare for the situation.
On the occasion of these manoeuvres – of course, they do so each year, with the
exception of last year, but this year they led them; maybe they did not do so
last year due to differences in the budget. So they conducted these manoeuvres
for this year.
On the occasion of these manoeuvres, a number of Israeli military and political
leaders made statements and expressed threats against Lebanon. They threatened
to destroy it, to devastate it, to create a mass of refugees… Someone talked of
pushing 1.5 million people to evacuate. 1 million Lebanese would be forced to
leave their region.
For this first point, I want to comment on these statements.
First, they are part of the psychological warfare. This is part of the
boastfulness and psychological warfare which we have been accustomed to since
the establishment of this enemy entity. Since before 1948, and since 1948, among
the weapons of the enemy that enabled it to defeat the Arab armies and peoples
of the region, there has always been this psychological warfare, bluster, and
boasting. It’s a part of it and the same old thing, so first, there is nothing
new there.
Second, Israel declares that it is about to destroy, devastate, ruin, accomplish
such and such things in the field, evacuate people by hundreds of thousands or
1.5 million… What is new in this? Since this entity was established, it has been
based on killings, destruction, displacement, devastation, massacres… Such is
its nature, its identity. Israel is only repeating itself.
Of course, it is positive that it would remind the Lebanese and peoples of the
region: “O people, there is an enemy called Israel and whose nature is that
nature (criminal) which they do not try to change, they do not even try to
represent something else. Such is the aggressive and terrorist nature they
describe themselves through these statements.”
Third, I now declare myself to the Israelis: You know well that the world has
changed… Things are not as they were before. And we can give as proof your
manoeuvres themselves, why have you been doing manoeuvres on the home front
since the July War (2006)? Because you found out that you are an army that has
been defeated, an army that can be defeated, that when your entity attacks, we
will retaliate by striking at the heart and to the ends of its territory. And it
is in relation to this new situation you lead these manoeuvres. Do you come to
threaten us even while you’re doing manoeuvres on your home front that
constitute a complete and unquestionable admission that the Resistance can hit
all those places where you lead these manoeuvres on your home front?!
Fourth, the time has passed… – not just from today, but since 2000 and 2006 and
also during the wars in Gaza. The time when Israel destroyed our homes while
their houses remain intact is over. The time when our infrastructure was
destroyed while their infrastructure remained intact is over. The time when our
people became refugees while their settlers remain in the settlements and
usurped towns has passed. Those days are gone. Since 2006, it has been over.
But what awaits you today is much worse than what you experienced in 2006, on
this level and at other levels also. And I say very clearly to those Israelis:
If you threaten to force the evacuation of 1.5 million Lebanese, the Islamic
Resistance in Lebanon is threatening to force the evacuation of millions of
Israelis. Millions of Israelis will be forced to evacuate their homes and flee
if war is imposed on Lebanon. [Audience: At Thy service, O Nasrallah!] It is an
obvious reality, incontestable, as the enemy leaders know very well. And the
enemy people know it all too well.
This is why all these empty words, all these empty threats have absolutely no
impact, no bearing. You know very well that we do not fear your wars, then what
about your threats? And if by chance you consider that we are busy in Syria, in
the Qalamoun, around Ersal and other places, if you think all this can change
anything in regards to combat with the Israeli enemy, know that we have stated
on more than one occasion that this changes nothing. And on the contrary, it
(our successes and experience) should frighten and worry you.
In any case, I declare to the Lebanese and the Lebanese people: Do not pay
attention to these threats, and I know they have no effect on your will and
determination, neither at close range, or from far away. They are only a part of
this boasting which is a sign of concern and fear from the enemy, and a part of
its weapons of deterrence that they use to confront the Resistance which it
dreads and fears, as they are convinced of its ability, much more than some
people (among the Lebanese and the Arab-Muslim).
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