* In 2006 Nasrallah said " There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel ".

* In a television interview with Julian Assange on 17 April 2012, Nasrallah said that Israel “ is and will be an illegal state … It was established on the basis of occupying the lands of others .” He added, “ If I occupy your house by force it doesn't become mine in 50 or 100 years .” While “ Hezbollah does not want to kill anyone ”, the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he argued, was to establish a democratic state on Palestinian land where Muslims, Jews and Christians live in peace but that the US “ won't let people listen to Hezbollah .”

Nasrallah urged dialogue as the solution: " There is fighting in Syria – when one party retreats, the other will advance, it will go on as long as doors to dialogue are shut ".

On July 3, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah rejected the indictment and denounced the tribunal as a plot against the party, vowing that the named persons would not be arrested under any circumstances.

* In an interview with The Washington Post, in 2000, Nasrallah said " I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah called for a " massive popular gathering " on Tuesday against UN Resolution 1559 saying " The resistance will not give up its arms ... because Lebanon needs the resistance to defend it ", and added " all the articles of UN resolution give free services to the Israeli enemy who should have been made accountable for his crimes and now finds that he is being rewarded for his crimes and achieves all its demands ".

Nasrallah also reiterated his earlier calls for the destruction of Israel saying " To this enemy we say again: There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us.

* Lebanese writer, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb quotes Hasan Nasrallah as saying, " If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew.

Almalaf, an Iraqi news source on 15, October 2008, quoted sources in Lebanon saying Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah had been poisoned the previous week and that he was saved by Iranian doctors who went to Lebanon to treat him.

* Journalist Badih Chayban in an October 23, 2002 article in The Daily Star, wrote that Nasrallah said, " If they Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after  them worldwide.

" Nasrallah stated that " in occupied Palestine, there is no difference between a soldier and a civilian, for they are all invaders, occupiers and usurpers of the land.

Including these is the Maronite Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – the most eminent religious figure for Maronites – and the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.

" Nasrallah went on to praise Garaudy for exposing " alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany " and stated that Garaudy " proved that this Holocaust is a myth.

Consequently, Nasrallah is widely credited in Lebanon and the Arab world for ending the Israeli occupation of the South of Lebanon, something which has greatly bolstered the party's political standing within Lebanon.

" If you hit Beirut, the Islamic resistance will hit Tel Aviv and is able to do that with God's help ," Nasrallah said in a televised address.

Following the Nasrallah and Hezbollah great victory, came what is known as the " Green Flood " ( Al-sayl al-akhdhar ), according to Iranian-born journalist Amir Taheri.

* Despite declaring " death to Israel " in his public appearances, Nasrallah said in an interview to The New Yorker, " At the end of the road no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on.

* On November 30, 2009, while reading the party's new political manifesto, Hasan Nasrallah declared " Our problem with Israelis is not that they are Jews, but that they are occupiers who are raping our land and holy places.

Nasrallah called for balance on the Syrian issue as " armed groups in Syria have killed very many civilians " although international blame is leveled solely at President Assad.

Nasrallah said that without it, " civil war is the only alternative ".

* According to the US-Israeli organisation MEMRI, in a speech aired on Al-Manar and Al-Jazeera in 2006, Nasrallah expressed support for alleged Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy calling him a " great French philosopher " who " proved ( sic ) that this Holocaust is a myth ".

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Patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (, ; born May 15, 1920 ) is the patriarch emeritus of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.

The current Patriarch ( since March 2011 ) is Bechara Boutros Rahi, while Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir is Patriarch Emeritus.

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Nasrallah also played a major role in a complex prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hezbollah in 2004, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners being freed and many bodies, including that of his son, being returned to Lebanon.

During the conflict, Nasrallah came under intense criticism from pro-Western Arab regimes, including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.

On July 25, 2012, al-Manar launched an application through Apple's iTunes app store, directing users to various content produced by the Hezbollah television station, including speeches by Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

* According to Israeli military source Shaul Shay, Nasrallah has often made anti-Semitic statements that not only revile Israel as a state, but also the entire Jewish people, while using themes taken from classic and Muslim antisemitism.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the government's decision to declare the group's military telecommunications network illegal was a " declaration of war " on the organization, and demanded that the government revoke it.

Rachel Corrie was a US citizen allegedly killed by a bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) while involved in direct action ( based on the non-violent principles of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi ) to prevent demolition of the home of local Palestinian pharmacist Samir Nasrallah.

Hasan Nasrallah was born the ninth of ten children in Bourj Hammoud, Matn District ( an eastern suburb of Beirut ) on August 31, 1960.

Nasrallah replaced Musawi as Hezbollah's leader after the latter was killed by an Israeli airstrike.

The agreement was described across the Arab world as a magnificent victory for Hezbollah, and Nasrallah was personally praised for achieving these gains.

A December article in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat stated that command of the organization's military wing was transferred from Nasrallah to his deputy, Na ' im Qasim in August 2007.

* In a 2011 televized speech, Nasrallah voiced support for the popular uprisings which took place in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain ; he was more outspoken towards the Bahraini issue, expressing strong support for the popular movements, a feat which fueled tensions between Lebanon and Bahrain.

** In a 1998 speech marking the Day of Ashura, and published in what was Hasan Nasrallah's official website at that time, Nasrallah referred to Israel as " the state of the grandsons of apes and pigs – the Zionist Jews " and condemned them as " the murderers of the prophets.

On October 25, 2008 in an interview with the Hezbollah owned Al-Manar channel, Nasrallah denied the assassination attempt, accusing the Israelis and Americans of fabricating the story and considering it as part of the ongoing psychological war against Hezbollah that aimed to imply that the party was suffering from internal disputes and assassination plots.

Israel was initially unsure who that person might be, until Nasrallah confirmed it was Tannenbaum a few days later.

It was founded on April 30, 2001 by total of 29 individuals, representing political parties and civic organizations, as well as independents, with the blessing of the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and under the leadership of the region's bishop Youssef Bechara.

For several decades, Adel Nasrallah was the wealthiest and most dangerous drug dealer / gangster operating on the West Coast ( MacDonell 2003 ).

His death was followed by a huge turnout in Lebanon, visits by virtually all major political figures across the Lebanese spectrum ( except for Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir ), and statements of condolence from across the greater Middle East region ( with a notable exception of Egypt ); but it also led to controversy in the west and a denunciation in Israel.

Al Musawi was succeeded as Secretary General of Hezbollah by Hassan Nasrallah.