"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist"
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The line also builds a closed loop of justification. Israel “proved” it “unable to coexist” because of “the scope of the massacres” it has committed; the alleged crimes aren’t presented as reasons to change Israel’s behavior but as evidence that Israel’s very presence is incompatible. That rhetorical move is strategic: it shifts the debate from accountability (which implies courts, facts, proportionality) to existential diagnosis (which implies removal). Even the stuttered “because the, the” reads less like hesitation than like an improvisational ramp-up, a live-performance cadence designed to land emotionally.
Context matters. Nasrallah speaks as the leader of Hezbollah, a militia-party forged in resistance to Israeli occupation in Lebanon and sustained by a regional narrative of anti-colonial struggle. His audience includes constituencies for whom “coexistence” can sound like surrender or normalization. By invoking massacres at “scope,” he recruits collective memory and grievance into a single conclusion: reconciliation is not merely naive, it’s disloyal. The subtext is a directive: treat the conflict as permanent, and treat compromise as betrayal.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Nasrallah, Hassan. (2026, January 18). Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/israel-remains-a-foreign-body-in-this-large-area-18905/
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Nasrallah, Hassan. "Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/israel-remains-a-foreign-body-in-this-large-area-18905/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/israel-remains-a-foreign-body-in-this-large-area-18905/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.


