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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who as a young boy used to sit eagerly in the front row at elementary school, now sits comfortably at the forefront of the Arab-Israeli conflict after having shaken the myth of Israel's invicibility for the second time. In five weeks of war, and through five televised speeches, the Hizbullah leader boosted his stock at least five-fold.

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