"Israel" calls for assassination of Nasrallah. Blah!

The Headline: ‘Israeli' Transport Minister Yisrael Katz calls for the assassination of the chief of Lebanon's Hizbullah movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Nothing new there.

"Nasrallah deserves death and I hope that those who know what to do with him will act and give him what he deserves," AFP quoted the intimidated ‘Israeli' minister as saying on Sunday.

Kaztz is a close aide of hawkish ‘Israeli' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Nasrallah's popularity in the world especially Muslim countries hit record high after a 33-day war between ‘Israel' and Hizbullah. Hizbullah managed to successfully resist against the well-equipped Israeli military.

'Israeli' military offensive killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly women and children. But they failed in assassinating Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah throughout the years since he headed Hizbullah despite all the ‘Israeli' attempts and declarations of those attempts. In light of that failure, the ‘Israelis' are left with nothing to do but holler empty threats.

The remarks by the ‘Israeli' minister is indicative of how ‘Israel' is panicked by the Hizbullah leader's political clout and the movement's military might.

Recently a top ‘Israeli' official Major-General Amos Yadlin said that Hizbullah has not given up plans to avenge the assassination of its military commander Imad Moghnieh.

Moghnieh was killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus. While ‘Israel' denies any involvement in the attack, Hizbullah says it has evidence of ‘Israel's' role in the assassination.

Elaborating on how the new ‘Israeli' government is to deal with Hamas resistance group in the Gaza Strip, Kaztz also said that "rules of the game must change".

"We will soon set out a new policy. We should erect a wall between the Gaza Strip and ‘Israel' and we should no longer exercise the slightest responsibility for civil affairs in the Gaza Strip, such as allowing the passage of merchandise." He added.

"All responsibility for civil affairs must be exercised by Egypt," which controlled Gaza before ‘Israel' captured the tiny territory in the 1967 Arab-‘Israeli' war, Katz said.