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If Israel hits Lebanon!

Saturday, August 15, 2009 BEIRUT: Hizbullah has the power to hit any location in Israel with its weapons and has more “surprises” up its sleeve in the event of a future Israeli attack, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday. The Hizbullah leader also encouraged the authorities to continue their search for networks of Israeli spies in Lebanon, claiming that there are “agents in every village and every neighborhood.” Nasrallah made the comments during a speech in front of thousands of supporters via a large screen in Beirut’s southern suburbs, to celebrate the third anniversary of the party’s “divine victory” in the July-August war of 2006. “We no longer hear about the ‘new Middle East,’” Nasrallah said, arguing that the local, regional and international situation today “is not worse” than three years ago. Nasrallah was defiant in the address, mocking the Israeli army’s military capability on several occasions, and urging the Lebanese to show national solidarity to prevent an outbreak of conflict, which he said Hizbullah didn’t want, but didn’t fear. Nasrallah said that since the 2006 war, the Israelis have “been training and getting weapons, and changing their military leaders … if this is a ‘victorious’ army, what would a defeated army look like?” Israel’s verbal campaign against Hizbullah in recent weeks has rebounded against the Zionist state, as the resistance party is now “three times stronger” than it was in 2006, Nasrallah said.

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