When the «Nasrallah» Fish Occupies the Shores of «Israel» & Its Consciousness

Yehya Dbouk

There is no doubt that Hezbollah's Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been deeply engraved into the "Israeli" consciousness, not only because he is the person who leads the front that represents "Israel's" first strategic threat, but also because he is a symbol of credibility and deep knowledge of its society, military and politics to the extent that his name has become part of the Hebrew vocabulary used in public and private as a sign of all that threatens "Israel" and the "Israelis", individually or as a group.

Years ago, the "Israeli" Maariv newspaper published a report about the "Nasrallah Fish". It is a fish that started appearing in the territorial waters of occupied Palestine in 2007. The fish has a beautiful appearance, but it has a poison that cripples humans and can sometimes be fatal. There is no antidote for this toxin. At the time, the report was addressed or overlooked depending on the position of the "Israeli" media towards Hezbollah.

According to the Jewish media, the fish no longer appears just in isolated cases as in previous years. It has become a serious threat, increasing in number after it invaded the Mediterranean, coming from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal. The "Israeli" authorities had to place pictures of the "Nasrallah Fish" with a special warning, on the beaches frequented by the public and inside diving clubs, under the title: Wanted.

The "Nasrallah Fish" is now returning to the Jewish media, after becoming a concrete and actual threat outside its social connotations associated with the naming -although bringing up the topic again links "Israeli" fears and anxieties with the Secretary General of Hezbollah.

A while ago, Haaretz published an article on the personality of Hezbollah's secretary-general, in which it analyzed the effect of his personality on the "Israeli" conscience. The newspaper wrote that the "Nasrallah phenomenon" was not related to the collective awareness of the "Israelis" as a result of the wars that it waged in several confrontations, but in the image it accumulated over the past years as a person with credibility, firmness and specialized on the "Israeli" issue.

It added that the Nasrallah phenomenon would not be what it is now had it not been for the "Israeli" media seeing Sayyed Nasrallah- for many years- as a person who managed to secure the image of the reliable man who uprooted the "Israeli" army from Lebanon and created a great state of deterrence in the face of "Israel" that has no parallel in any Arab country.

In short, the newspaper carries on to say that for the first time Nasrallah was able, as an Arab leader, to break the stereotypical image of the Arab leaders, proving that he does not babble uselessly, does not lie, but is accurate in his words and trustworthy.

The newspaper reveals that due to this fact, the "Israeli" media authorities decided to deal with Nasrallah's speeches as a real weapon against "Israel". It is this undisguised fact of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah that has led him to say that the "Israelis" believe him more than they believe their leaders.

Source: Al-Akhbar Newspaper, Translated and Edited by website team