Nasrallah Asks For Help: "There Is Danger Israel Will Defeat Hamas and Hizbollah"

It looks like Hassan Nasrallah has had a taste of reality. Joshua Pundit has the scoop:


Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was on the air at Hezbollah's al Manar TV station 12 hours after reports claim he was wounded in the Israeli air strike that flattened his headquarters compound in Beirut last night, July 15.

It was hard to determine whether he had been wounded or not. The recording shown by al Manar television was roughly edited, could have been made anywhere - like a hospital- and was of very poor quality.

He spoke clearly, but appeared to be shaken up badly and actually called on his fellow Muslims for help for the first time. After some of the usual bluster about the `surprises we have for the Zionists' Nasrallah said: "Our campaign has only just begun. We all (the Arab nation) saw how the Arab League foreign ministers’ meeting ended Saturday. Therefore we have never relied on them and they are of no interest to us. But,” Nasrallah stressed, “Today there is a danger that Israel will defeat Hamas in Gaza and Hizballah in Lebanon and then the entire Arab world will pay the price."

"Where are you?” Nasrallah ended his peroration with an appeal: “The battle is not Hizballah’s alone. This war belongs to the entire Arab and Muslim nation, for the sake of this world and the next."


Joshua Pundit's analysis is right on, if you ask me:


This was a pretty thinly veiled appeal to Syria and Iran to get into the fight.

Nasrallah perhaps realizes now that he and Hezbollah were just pawns used by Iran and Syria to deflect attention from the dispute on Iran's nuclear weapons and sow dissension between the US and the EU. *Sigh* ....what a motard.


You know what they say about swimming with the sharks.