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Sayyed Nasrallah: Our Nation Stronger Now than Ever

24/03/2008 Thousands of Hezbollah supporters made their way to southern Beirut Monday in order to take part in a rally in the honor of Hezbollah’s top commander, Haj Imad Mogniyeh, assassinated in Damascus in February. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called the martyr leader as the 'leader of both victories' referring to the Israeli withdrawal from the South of Lebanon on 25 May, 2000 and the Israeli defeat in July 2006 war against Lebanon victories. Speaking via satellite, Sayyed Nasrallah told the crowd "we found in our enemy nothing but concern and fear of Mogniyeh's spirit, blood, revenge, way, and pledge. "We are celebrating 40 days to the death of the martyr commander. These are festive days for Muslims and Christians," he said. His eminence charged that people should be free to question the Holocaust. "Why is it that when it comes to the Zionists everyone is silent?" Sayyed Nasrallah said. "When a great philosopher arrives and raises questions about the Holocaust, he is being judged. We condemn that." Sayyed Nasrallah added, "We see unprecedented Zionist and American infiltration of the media. They want to undermine our nation's consciousness. They want the end result to be our surrender." His eminence said that "the Zionist entity can be wiped out of existence," adding that "our nation is stronger now than ever before." "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," his eminence continued. Sayyed Nasrallah argued that the victories presented by the Israeli occupation military are made bigger than they are in the Israeli-American 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. Hezbollah Secretary General stressed repeatedly the fact that Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 was a tremendous victory for Hezbollah, both on military and psychological terms. "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. However, he continued, in the summer of 2006 a powerful new answer became apparent: "in the July war we were attacked by the [Israeli] army and the resistance withstood the great attack, breaking and shattering the army. We found and we saw the true picture of the Israel and the leaders, generals, officers, soldiers and the Israeli tank. The nation that isn't facing bombings and banishment, lived in bomb shelters for 33 days. Could Israel be wiped out of existence? Yes and a thousand times yes." Sayyed Nasrallah also said that the battle being waged by Israel utilizes not only logic and science, but also killing and terror. Addressing the crowd, he said "you are being told that the entire world has abandoned you, your women and your children. The world remained silent when you were massacred in Qana and in Gaza." His eminence was referring to over 50 Lebanese civilians killed in an Israel Air Force strike during the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and the hundreds of Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip. "The battle's end is nowhere on the horizon because Israel is smart and cannot be defeated," Sayyed 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 Moghniyeh and Jihad who fight in Palestine and Lebanon are creating a new Zionist consciousness.