BEIRUT (Dispatches) –
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance front thwarted the so-called Greater Middle East project through its victory in the 2006 war on Lebanon.
Speaking at a televised address, Nasrallah said the 2006 war was a key part of America’s Greater Middle East project, which he said aimed to solidify Israeli dominance and American influence in the region.
In an address on the 17th anniversary of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, he said the victory of the resistance front in 2006 also foiled the so-called greater Israel project.
Nasrallah said the 2006 war’s goal was to crush the Lebanese resistance and to subjugate Lebanon, but it was never realized and the Zionists and the Americans both admitted the failure of the war on Lebanon on several occasions.
He said the 2006 victory marked a defining moment in Lebanon’s history, shaping its destiny in the region for the years to come.
The victory also laid the groundwork for putting up deterrence that continues to exist to this day and has led to the erosion of Israeli deterrence, he added.
Nasrallah, meanwhile, said the occupying regime of Israel had suffered defeat in its recent operation against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
“The goal sought by the Israelis in the aggression against Jenin was deterrence,” he said, adding the “continuation of the resistance’s operations in the West Bank serves as the evidence of the defeat of the incursion into Jenin.”
Nasrallah condemned the Zionist regime’s setting up of barbed wires and erection of a wall in the border village of Ghajar, considering the move to be a “re-occupation” of the village in question.
“Sovereignty cannot be divided up,” he said, warning that the resistance

would not remain silent on the issue. “The village is part of Lebanon’s soil and should return to Lebanon without any condition.”
Commenting on the recent desecration of a copy of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden, the Hezbollah chief said the act of sacrilege was committed with the goal of “sowing division between Muslims and Christians.”
The perpetrator of the heinous act of profanity “is in liaison with Mossad and sought to create division between” the people of the two faiths, Nasrallah stated.
The Christian clergy, however, stepped in and condemned the sacrilege, thus contributing much towards the prevention of sedition, he noted.
The Hezbollah chief, meanwhile, called on the people of the region to demand their respective governments to adopt more decisive stances on the issue of the desecration of the Muslim holy book.