During a televised speech Feb. 16, on the occasion of the Commemoration of the Martyr Leaders, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah focused noticeably on the Palestinian issue and hostility toward Israel. Nasrallah allocated nearly a quarter of the speech, which lasted more than two hours, to this topic.
The Hezbollah leader remarked that some people might be surprised that he would be talking about the Palestinian cause and the Israeli threat to Palestine, Lebanon and the region when the world is focused elsewhere, that is, on the situation the Arab world finds itself in today. According to Nasrallah, this is the very situation "that the US and Israel wanted the people of the region, its regimes and states to reach, after all of the victories and achievements made by the resistance, from Palestine to Lebanon, Syria and Iran."
