Nasrallah’s ambitions go back a long way. Journalist Badih Chayban in a 23 October 2002 article in The Daily Star wrote that Nasrallah said, “If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”
Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s second in command’s ideas go back a long ways and once said “History proved that, regardless of the Zionist question, Jews are people with evil ideas”.