Nasrallah's speech reactions

"Khaled Saghiyeh, editor of the daily Al-Akhbar, noted in Wednesday's paper (in Arabic) that Nasrallah's speech took the enmity between Hezbollah and Israel to a new level by vowing not only to retaliate, but to exact equal damage on Israel in case of war. "Either intentionally or unintentionally, Nasrallah hit a very sensitive chord by mentioning by name the Beirut and Tel Aviv airports, which are named for Rafik Hariri and David Ben Gurion," he wrote. "As if instead of just putting an airport [up against] another airport, he put a Lebanese symbol up against an Israeli symbol." He concluded, "Nasrallah’s new equation is not intended to merely overcome Israel’s military advantage and arrogance, but above all else to [reverse] Arab and Lebanese defeatism." I just want to add that comrade Khalid also noted that there are different degrees of consensus around those symbols. (thanks Dina)