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"15/08/2007 Israel must take seriously Hezbollah Secretary General (Sayyed) Hassan Nasrallah, a senior Israeli minister said on Wednesday.
"We have to take (Sayyed) Nasrallah seriously, he has never lied," Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a member of Israel's security cabinet, told army radio.
"He is arrogant, but he does what he says," he said. "If he says he has 2,000 rockets, I believe him, but I do not know what surprise he is alluding to."
He was referring to a speech by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday marking the Divine victory, one year after the Israeli army was defeated by Hezbollah during last year's aggression.
"If you, the Zionists, are considering attacking Lebanon, I am reserving a surprise for you that will change the fate of the war and the region as a whole," his eminence said. Ben-Eliezer also said Israel did not want a conflict with Syria, but was preparing for any possibility. "Our problem is that we do not know what Syrian officials have in their heads," he said. "The Syrian leaders proclaim they do not want a war, but their country does not stop arming itself. That is why we have to be ready for the worst. "A war on two fronts, in Lebanon and in Syria cannot be excluded," he said.
The United States decided to increase Israel's yearly military aid to 30 billion USD as part of a controversial package of US military aids to other Arab states. "
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