Nasrallah: "Call us terrorists"

Hezbollah's Al Manar translated parts of Hassan Nasrallah's Quds Day speech last Friday. It is worth watching for those who mightily try to find "moderation" in the worst terrorists.

There is nothing moderate in his words. (There was no audio for some reason.)



He thanks Syria and Iran for their help in funding terrorist groups, and says that Hezbollah will continue to help all terror groups that fight against Israel.

Some more of the speech:

Palestine which we are talking about is the whole of Palestine from the sea to the river, which should return fully to its people no one of the world's Sheikh or Sayyed or Prince nor King or President or a government to give up or abandon one grain of sand from the soil of Palestine, or a drop of its water, oil, or a piece of its land and does not have a mandate to do so....

Imam Khomeini had described Israel accurately when he called it a cancerous tumor, and it is really a tumor that kills, the only solution is to eradicate it without giving it any opportunity or surrender and eradicate. ...Israel represents a constant and enormous threat not only on Palestine and the Palestinians, this is an illusion and misinformation and ignorance. Israel is a threat to all peoples and countries of the region, with its security and sovereignty and he who denies this is arrogant.

...Some might think that the demise of Israel is a Palestinian interest, it’s rather a national interest of each country of the region, and [Israel] is a threat to Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, thus the disappearance of Israel is a national Jordanian, Syrian, Egyptian and Lebanese interest....

...On al-Quds Day, which is the last Friday of Holy Ramadan, we the twelver Shiites will not abandon Palestine, the Palestinian people and sanctities.

Hezbollah, the Islamic Shiite party, will not abandon Palestine, al-Quds, and the holy sites of the nation. We were born and arisen on bearing the responsibility of defending Palestine and Al-Quds. We - the Shiites- won't abandon this cause never ever. Call us rejectionists, call us terrorists, call us criminals, say whatever you want and keep killing us at every front, at the door of every mosque, we the Shiites of Ali bin Abi Taleb will not abandon Palestine.

Now, does Nasrallah represent the "political" or the "military" wing of Hezbollah?

This speech was also notable for being performed live, rather than via closed circuit TV as Nasrallah usually does.

Which means it is a real shame that at the moment he said "keep killing us at every front" the IDF didn't do exactly that.