Hezbollah's leader Naim Qassem's speech yesterday - Nasrallah's lies without the charisma ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Hezbollah's leader Naim Qassem's speech yesterday - Nasrallah's lies without the charisma

It used to be when the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech, it would be covered closely in Lebanese media. Every sentence would be live-blogged on news sites. The Lebanese realized that their lives were dependent on Hezbollah and Nasrallah was the most powerful man in Lebanon.

How times have changed.

Yesterday, Nasrallah's successor Naim Qassem gave his second major speech since taking over, and even pro-Hezbollah media didn't give it wide coverage.

While Qassem made the same kinds of statements and threats Nasrallah used to, no one is too impressed with Hezbollah's power anymore, and Qassem does not have the same charisma that Nasrallah had.

Here are some highlights of Qassem's speech, including some that admit Hezbollah's weakness.

"We hope that this new party in power [in Syria] will see Israel as an enemy and not normalize relations with it."

"Hezbollah lost a military supply line via Syria. The resistance must adapt to the circumstances."

Israel was able to assassinate “Hezbollah leaders, headed by His Eminence the Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and committed its brutal crimes against civilians, but it was unable to break the den of the resistance.”

He again declared victory, saying, "three factors of strength and steadfastness made us victorious. The first is the legendary steadfastness of the resistance fighters in the field, the second is the blood of the martyrs, headed by Sayyed Nasrallah, and the third factor is the integrated and effective political management with the management of the resistance of the brave." He claimed that Hezbollah has “thwarted the enemy's goal of eliminating and crushing the Resistance.”

Of course, Israel never stated that was a goal.

But that was not Israel's only imaginary goal that was thwarted. According to Qassem, Israel wanted to take over all of Lebanon and move Jewish settlers there.

He won't mention that Hezbollah was decimated by Israel and accepted a humiliating ceasefire forcing it to agree to lose everything it has been building for 18 years in southern Lebanon.

This weakening of Hezbollah has had a huge impact on the Lebanese psyche. You can see the change in their media. No longer are the journalists frightened of criticizing Hezbollah or of talking about a Lebanon that is not dominated by the Shiite minority,.