●Quds Day 1999: "the enemy before you is weaker than a spider's web", to the Palestinians before the liberation

On 31 December 1999, the last day of the century, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah opened the Quds Day speech with the verse "the feeblest of houses is the spider's house", the day after Ammar Hammoud's martyrdom operation, honouring his father who was present ("I have kept my pledge") and drawing a "sharp separation" between the humanitarian file (the prisoners and the bodies, and the five freed men present) and the political file. He declared that the party "does not recognise the existence of a state, a village or a farm called Israel even if the whole world recognised it", that no settlement would make it legitimate or a neighbour, and that the land is "not only the pieces recently annexed to the strip, nor the Shebaa Farms alone: the seven villages are part of Lebanon", urging the Lebanese "we are in no hurry… do not give up any right". He then addressed the Palestinians, contrasting the resistance's model with "Arafat's begging": "Even if the whole world abandoned you, you are able, because the enemy is feebler than a spider's web", five months before the Bint Jbeil speech; and he quoted Imam Khamenei at the Tehran Friday prayer, "no solution but the disappearance of Israel", and Imam al-Sadr, "the honour of Jerusalem refuses to be liberated except at the hands of the believers".