Hassan Nasrallah

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was the Secretary General of the Lebanese paramilitary and political party Hezbollah from 1992 to 2024.

• Hezbollah will never accept the existence of Israel.
  • On al-Manar Television (7 May 1998).

• And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood.
  • Speech at a Hezbollah rally in Beirut (31 December 1999).
  • Source: Bruns International / Associated Press.

• Even if [an agreement] is signed we will continue to view [Israel] as an illegitimate and illegal entity”
  • Al-Hayat (2 January 2000)
  • Source: Britain Israel Communication & Research Centre

• I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful.
  • The Washington Post. (2 February 2000). Interview conducted by Antoine K. Kehdy of Middle East Insight magazine.
  • Source: Interview

• As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.
  • On Egyptian television (6 February 2000)
  • Source: Britain Israel Communication & Research Centre

• It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy that should be listed in the terrorism list.
  • United Press International. (4 November 2001)
  • Source: Camera: Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words.

• Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute [...] Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America.
  • Al-Manar, BBC Monitoring. (27 September 2002)
  • Source: Camera: Hassan Nasrallah: In His Own Words.

• [T]he Jews will gather from all parts of the world into occupied Palestine, not in order to bring about the anti-Christ and the end of the world, but rather that Allah the Glorified and Most High wants to save you from having to go to the ends of the world [to kill them], for they have gathered in one place–they have gathered in one place–and there the final and decisive battle will take place.
  • Source: Speech Transcription and translation

• Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.'"
  • Al-Manar television (2 February 2005)
  • Source: Britain Israel Communication & Research Centre

• There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.
  • The Age. (15 July 2006)
  • Source: Little choice for a defiant Israel.

• The elite are the men of religion, political leaders, media and press people, and teachers. Everyone can understand the truth and know what is right. These have the responsibility of showing this right and truth to the people. They should not remain silent....It is the responsibility of people to look for right and truth. As they hear me now, they should not accept everything I say. Even the masses of Hezbollah and the resistance should not do so....Forget what my faith is and what yours is. Hear what I say and see what I do and hear what others say and see what they do, and then decide.
  • Interview with Al-Manar television (31 October 2006)

• Today, the Israelis tightened the noose on the mass media in northern occupied Palestine and occupied Palestine. No one can report any news or broadcast any footage. [News reports] are subject to the Israeli censorship which permits and disseminates them. Even you at Al-Jazeera Channel were subjected to arrests, interrogation, restricted activities, and the like. Why do the Israelis resort to concealing the truth on the other side? Why? Do they do that only because they accuse the media outlets of setting the coordinates? This is nonsense. We have the coordinates of these Israeli settlements and military positions in the north, centre, or in any part of occupied Palestine. We do not need anybody to give us information, images, or the like. In that case, they want to conceal the true scene of the war on the other side because it will have definite impact on the Israeli street and media and the morale of the Israelis.
  • Hassan Nasrallah, Al-Jazeera interviews Hezbollah chief Al-Jazeera (20 July 2006)

• "It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent [...] To have Iraqis confronting the occupation army, this is natural. But if there are American tourists, or intellectuals, doctors, or professors who have nothing to do with this war, they are innocent, even though they are Americans, and it is forbidden. It is not acceptable to harm them."
  • Interview with Robin Wright, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401401_pf.html The Washington Post (16 July 2006)

• For if Iran remains exalted, we too shall be exalted. I am a lowly soldier of the Imam Khamenei. Hizbullah youths acted on behalf of the Imam Khomeini, with the aid of Imam Hussein, and sent their blessings to the Iranian people.
  • On the anniversary of the Second Lebanon War; "Iran censors Nasrallah to protect Lebanese sensibilities". YNetNews. 18 August 2007. Retrieved on 19 August 2007. 

• No one has a greater motive for these assassinations than Israel, their ambition is to drag Hizbullah into an internal war in Lebanon. There are those inside Lebanon who blame Hizbullah for the murders and this serves Israel's agenda. Israel is trying to drive a wedge between Syria and Lebanon and these killings weaken Syria and its allies in Lebanon.
  • "Nasrallah: We have remains of soldiers killed in Second Lebanon War". YNet News. January 3, 2008. 

• The elimination of Israel is not only a Palestinian interest. It is the interest of the entire Muslim world and the entire Arab world.
  • The Iranian Regime on Israel's Right to Exist The Atlantic

• "The United States has announced a clear and shameful project, which it embraced and is promoting day and night. It has to do with spreading homosexuality around the world. It calls for abnormal, deviant, and depraved relations between two men or two women."
  • Translation into English from Arabic by MEMRI, Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah On Quran-Burning Incident: Like Imam Khamenei Said, Sweden Has Gone Into 'Battle-Array For War' With The Islamic Nation; Swedish Government Should Consult With Shari'a Expert On What That Entails (22 July 2023)

• This glorious, blessed large scale operation was one hundred per cent Palestinian in terms of decision and execution [...] The Palestinians had kept it secret.
• We are entitled to take pride in them. We must remain firm with certainty that they are rewarded in paradise... Those fallen martyrs are alive in God’s paradise.
  • "Hamas's attack on Israel was a 'glorious jihadi operation', says Hezbollah leader - follow latest", The Telegraph (London, 3 November 2023)
  • On the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel

• The presidency's most crucial duty is the protection of American national security. Yet, interviewed by Hugh Hewitt months into his campaign, Donald Trump did not know the key leaders of the global jihad. The man who would be commander-in-chief was unfamiliar with Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader who has been murdering Americans for over 30 years; Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's longtime deputy who has quite notoriously commanded al-Qaeda since the network's leader was killed by U.S. forces in 2011; and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (ISIS) and a jihadist so globally notorious that many teenagers are aware of him. Of course a man who wants to be president should make it his business to know such things.
  • Andrew C. McCarthy, "Conservatives Against Trump" (21 January 2016), National Review’'.

• Naim Qassem

• Profile: Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah

• Hizbullah Nasrallah: Israel Is Weaker Than a Spider Web (January 2007)
• Nasrallah speaking on Martyrs Day [Eng Sub]