Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah celebrated the second anniversary of the end of the Second Lebanon War Thursday by scoffing at Israel and the IDF, which he also blamed for Georgia's being crushed by the Russian army this week.
He declared in a televised speech on the Hizbullah-based Al Manar television network that he is not afraid of Israel but added, "We know you are planning to assassinate leaders of the resistance... but you do not frighten us." Hizbullah' senior mastermind terrorist Imad Mughibyeh was assassinated in a Damascus car bombing earlier this year. Israel has denied involvement in the killing, which revealed serious faults in Syrian security. 
We know you are planning to assassinate leaders of the resistance... but you do not frighten us.
Nasrallah reveled in recalling Israel's failure to vanquish his terrorist army in the war in 2006 and mocked former Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his "hasty departure" from the southern Lebanon security zone in 2000.
The Hizbullah leader echoed Israeli critics who have cited Ehud Barak's retreat as leaving a vacuum that Hizbullah used for six years to prepare for the war by building an underground network of bunkers with advanced weapons smuggled from Iran and Syria.
Next in line for Nasrallah's sarcasm was Labor Knesset Member Amir Peretz, who was Defense Minister during the war and whose name Nasrallah pretended to forget. The jibe was double-edged because Peretz threatened during the war that after an IDF victory, Nasrallah would remember his name.
The speech targeted not only Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for failing as a leader but also made stinging remarks aimed at the IDF and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who he said "do not scare us."
He blamed former IDF officers, in particular Brigadier General Gal Hirsch who quit the IDF while admitting his failures in the war, for the heavy losses of Georgia's armed forces at the hands of an unmatched Russia army.
He declared, "Israel exported failed generals in order to train the Georgian armed forces," including Hirsch, who now operates a company that trained Georgian security forces. "Relying on Israeli experts and weapons, Georgia learned why the Israeli generals failed" against Hezbollah, he said.