Hezbollah Hezbollah does not distinguish between its political/social activities within Lebanon and its military/"jihad" activities against Israel. "Hezbollah has a single leadership," according to Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's second in command. "All political, social and jihad work is tied to the decisions of this leadership ... The same leadership that directs the parliamentary and government work also leads jihad actions in the struggle against Israel." In 2010, Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said, "Iran takes pride in Lebanon's Islamic resistance movement for its steadfast Islamic stance. Hezbollah nurtures the original ideas of Islamic Jihad." He also instead charged the West with having
Hezbollah foreign relations bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government. Two EU countries have imposed partial or complete prohibitions on Hezbollah. The Netherlands has proscribed the organisation fully, while the United Kingdom has proscribed Hezbollah's paramilitary External Security Organization, but not the organisation's political wing. Switzerland, owing to its Swiss neutrality, does not regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Its government only uses the Sanctions List provided by the United Nations. Dan Gillerman, the Israeli representative at UN, referred to Hezbollah as a "cancerous growth" that must be removed. The Israeli Government considers the use of military