Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem: We lost this thanks to Assad's fall

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem issued a statement today (Saturday) where he conceded that the fall of the Assad regime in Syria to rebel forces meant that the terrorist group lost one of their supply lines.

He did note, however, that "these are just details within the resistance's activity. The new regime may allow this and the route will return naturally, and we may find another way. Resistance is a flexible thing which does not stop at one border," a reference to developing other smuggling routes, possibly via Jordan which Israel is very worried about at present.

Regarding the regime itself, Qassem said that "we cannot judge these new forces until there is stability and they take a clear stance...we hope the new regime in Syria and the Syrian people will have cooperation between the people and the governments in Lebanon and Syria."

He further expressed his hope that "the new government will consider Israel to be an enemy and not normalize its relations with it. It is the right of the Syrian people to choose its government, leaders, and constitutions, that no other country has ambitions to control it save Israel, that it not control its decisions."