Qaouk: Paper tiger "Israel" can’t fight Hizbullah

Source: Press TV, 05-10-2008

A senior Hizbullah commander has downplayed the remarks made by the ‘Israeli' regime threatening to destroy Lebanon in case of another war.

"The resistance is completely ready and ‘Israel's' threats do not scare [us]," Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, Hizbullah's commander in the south told the UAE-based daily Al-Hilaj on Sunday.

His remarks came shortly after, Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, a senior ‘Israeli' military commander, threatened Lebanon with destruction. Eizenkot said that Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah would need to "think 30 times" before giving an order to attack ‘Israel'.

The Hizbullah commander, however, said "Israel, which is frustrated by its many internal problems, is not capable of launching a new war against Lebanon," adding that Eizenkot's comments were nothing but propaganda.

"This paper tiger state will collapse at the hands of resistance fighters," Qaouk added.
The regime launched a military attack against Lebanon in summer 2006 but it failed to destroy Hizbullah's military power.