A Hezbollah supporter, holds a poster of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, right, and in the left a poster showing an Israeli tank with the Arabic words reading, " The era of defeat is gone", during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan NAsrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

A Hezbollah supporter, holds a poster of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, right, and in the left a poster showing an Israeli tank with the Arabic words reading, " The era of defeat is gone", during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan NAsrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.

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  1. A young Hezbollah supporter holds two posters showing the slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, right, and in the left for the slain Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas al-Musawi, during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyrs Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
  2. Hezbollah members, parade during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyrs Day, in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. At left is a banner with the image of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh and at right a banner with the image of slain Hezbollah leader Sheik Abbas al-Musawi.
  3. In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, an Israeli flag is seen in the Israeli town of Metulla, as on the other side of the border a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, top, and top commander Imad Mughniyeh, is seen displayed in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time.
  4. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: Wearing protective suits, Israeli police evacuate the 'victim' of a chemical warfare terror attack at a shopping mall during a training exercise on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  5. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: An ultra-Orthodox Jew plays the role of a fatality of a chemical warfare terror attack in the food court of a shopping mall during a training exercise on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  6. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: Israeli rescue workers rush to wear their DuPont protective suits on arrival at a shopping mall at the start of a training exercise simulating a chemical warfare terror attack in the mall's food court on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  7. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: An Israeli rescue worker wears a DuPont protective suit as she deploys outside a shopping mall during a training exercise simulating a chemical warfare terror attack in the mall's food court on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  8. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: Wearing a protecive suit, an Israeli fireman looks for signs of life in an ultra-Orthodox Jew who plays the roles of a fatality of a chemical warfare terror attack in the food court of a shopping mall during a training exercise on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  9. JERUSALEM - NOVEMBER 15: Ultra-Orthodox Jews play the roles of fatalities of a chemical warfare terror attack in the food court of a shopping mall during a training exercise on November 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel. With the Lebanese Hezbollah militia threatening that all of the Jewish State is in range of its missiles, and the Islamic group Hamas in Gaza test-firing missiles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv, Israeli security forces all over the country have held recently civil defence exercises with both mass casualty and chemical warfare scenarios.
  10. Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah delivers a televised speech during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut on September 18, 2009. Quds Day, held each year on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is the brainchild of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a display of solidarity with the Palestinians.
  11. A woman holds at portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a rally marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on September 18, 2009. Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a keynote address to the annual mass rally of solidarity with the Palestinians at Tehran university, saying the Holocaust was a 'myth' and Israel was on its way to collapse.
  12. Two Indonesian UN peacekeepers stand next to a huge portrait of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the border with Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on September 12, 2009. UN peacekeepers were monitoring the Lebanese border with Israel on September 12, a day after rockets launched from south Lebanon slammed into Galilee, but the situation was 'calm,' a spokeswoman said.
  13. In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, an Israeli flag is seen in the Israeli town of Metulla, as on the other side of the border a picture of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, top, and top commander Imad Mughniyeh, is seen displayed in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time.
  14. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (on screen) addresses supporters during a rally marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Beirut's suburbs September 18, 2009. Al-Quds Day, held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, is observed as a show of support for the Palestinian people.
  15. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah broadcasting on a giant screen from a secret location, speaks to thousands of supporters during a ceremony marking "Jerusalem Day" that was called for by the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the group's stronghold south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Nasrallah said no Arab state has the right to recognize Israel adding that his group will never recognize the Jewish state.

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