Dan Gillerman

As we know, the Hezbollah is really just a proxy of Iran and Syria. This is not just about this horrible terror organization in the south. It's about Iran and Syria, who are financing it and using it in order to destabilize the region.

Well, I must say that this is very, very good news, except I'm very skeptical about the Lebanese government actually implementing it.

This war is not just about the safety of Israel or the freedom of Lebanon, it is about preserving civilization as we know it.

Syria is a perpetrator and harborer and financer and initiator of terror.

I beseeched and urged my colleagues at the Security Council not to play into the hands of the Hezbollah and Iran and Syria, because that's what they want.

Israel truly feels that it has to do as much as it can to degrade the capability of the Hezbollah.

I think that the statement made by the secretary general was very unworthy of such a seasoned diplomat. I think it was premature, hasty, deplorable and irresponsible.

This is why we have to see to it that Hezbollah is eliminated, and that threat is removed, both from Israel, from Lebanon, and from the region, and ultimately, the world, because Hezbollah, together with the Hamas, Syria, and Iran, do…

This man is ruthless. This man has no compunction about killing women and children. It is, in fact, his declared aim, to kill as many Israeli citizens as possible, and, ultimately, to destroy the state of Israel.

We will do whatever is necessary, by whichever means are necessary, in order -- in order to incapacitate the Hezbollah, and making it unable to terrorize us and Lebanon.

We will continue to seek them wherever they are. We will continue to try and make Israel safer and Lebanon freer.

You cannot leave this to fester in the cesspool of terrorism, neither for the sake of Lebanon nor for the sake of Israel or for the sake of civilization as we know it.