Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday made a rare public appearance in Beirut, in which he claimed that Israel is the "contractor" of the United States in the Middle East. "The ongoing war is not for the sake of reforms, democracy, human rights, poverty or countering ignorance but it is rather aimed at subjugating those who rejected the U.S. scheme and punishing those who defeated the New Middle East scheme in 2006," Nasrallah said, according to Iran's Press TV . "The U.S. wants us to accept Israel under the threat of waging all kinds of wars against us," he claimed, adding, "Washington launches proxy wars against those countries that seek to become independent and strong."
