Hezbollah's Nasrallah: ' The Zionist Entity Can Be Wiped Out Of Existence '

Once again I ask the question: Why is Hassan Nasrallah still walking this earth? Certainly, it would be ten times easier to take out Nasrallah than it was Mughniyeh. Anyway, I digress. Hezbollah's Lebanese leader stated the following in a speech in Lebanon:

"The Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence," Nasrallah said in his address via video link, referring to Israel. "Our nation is stronger now than ever before," he added.
"There is a military political victory termed the withdrawal of the occupation army from southern Lebanon, but there is also an ideological victory in the battle of consciousness," he said.
"The battle's end is nowhere on the horizon because Israel is smart and cannot be defeated," Nasrallah continued. "However," he added, "we too have waged a war of consciousness with the Zionists, both in our defensive and offensive actions. Today, your sons and Imad Mughniyah and Jihad, who fight in Palestine and Lebanon, are creating a new Zionist consciousness.

Now, I do want to point out an interesting part of this that perhaps you might have missed (I did the first time I read it). Let's look at that first statement about Nasrallah's speech:

"The Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence," Nasrallah said in his address via video link, referring to Israel.

See that? Big old tough guy Hassan Nasrallah, the fearless Lion of Hezbollah, now is cowering in his basement while he addresses his throngs of jihadist supporters. What's the matter, Nasrallah? You a little nervous after Mughniyeh ended up in 1000 pieces?

Make no mistake about Nasrallah though. He is intent on an operation against Israel and I still claim that from the Israeli standpoint, taking the offensive is often your best defense. Here's the full story from Haaretz.

Nasrallah: The Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday told tens of thousands of supporters in Beirut that Israel could be eliminated and that the prowess of its army had been exaggerated by "Zionist-American propaganda." "The Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence," Nasrallah said in his address via video link, referring to Israel. "Our nation is stronger now than ever before," he added. Nasrallah's speech was broadcast live at a rally marking the end of the 40-day mourning period for slain Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyah, who was assassinated in a car bombing in Damascus last month.

The Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah has repeatedly blamed Israel for the assassination of the group's second in command, but Israel has categorically denied any involvement. Nasrallah also addressed the negotiations over the release of the Israel Defense Forces soldiers held by Hezbollah, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, and confirmed the report in Haaretz Monday that the talks were continuing. "Although the Israelis have killed the pillar of the resistance, we did not halt the negotiations on a prisoner exchange," he said, disclosing that meetings were recently held with United Nations mediators. "We will not stop the negotiations ... because we want to achieve one of the aspirations of martyr Imad Mughniyah, that is, to see our prisoner brothers free among their parents and loved ones," Nasrallah said. In addition to the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah in July 2006 triggered a summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, Nasrallah said in January his group had the remains of other soldiers killed in the fighting. There are believed to be seven Lebanese prisoners in Israeli custody. The Hezbollah leader also criticized what he called joint American and Israeli efforts to distort the truth through the media, saying "Zionist-American propaganda is aiming to harm our nation's consciousness. They, using their violent system, are trying to tell us that we are weak and powerless. They want to tell us that we don't have any hopes of winning." He argued that the victories presented by the Israeli military are blown out of proportion by this propaganda machine, that has been operating for 60 years (since the establishment of the state of Israel.) "The media has aggrandized this army and the Israeli soldier, officer and general," he said.