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He added Hezbollah, which has admitted that being placed on the EU’s terrorism list would destroy it, raises money from supporters in Europe as “if it were the Red Cross.”

“How much longer must this absurdity continue? How many more innocents must fall victim to Hezbollah terror before Europe acts?” he asked.

I know that there is no shortage of those willing to express their ‘commitment to Israel’s security’ in these halls

“It is time for all responsible nations to call Hezbollah exactly what it is: a global terrorist organization.”

Hezbollah, a powerful military and political group backed by Syria and Iran, was established with the help of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

It last fought Israel in 2006 during a 34-day war in which 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.

In his speech, Mr. Prosor also accused Hezbollah and Iran of complicity in the continuing massacre of civilians in Syria.

Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s head, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, “sit on Bashar Assad’s advisory board, offering the Tyrant of Damascus guidance on how to butcher the Syrian people more efficiently,” he said.

His speech came just days after Mr. Nasrallah claimed responsibility on Hezbollah’s behalf for an unmanned drone that penetrated 55 kilometres into Israeli territory before being shot down. The aircraft’s parts were manufactured in Iran and assembled in Lebanon, he said.

Tensions have increased in the Middle East with Israel threatening to bomb the nuclear sites of Hezbollah’s patron Iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail to stop Iranian nuclear activity the West says is meant to develop a weapons capability. Tehran says it is seeking only civilian nuclear energy.