Sayyed Nasrallah: Resistance Stronger than Ever!

[Mac Seafraidh]

Hussein Assi

11/11/2008 With pride, honor, and dignity, Lebanon celebrated on Tuesday the Martyr's Day, paying tribute to those who have drawn the Resistance path with their pure blood, and pledging to continue the same path until achieving complete victory...
 
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech through a large screen marking the Martyr's Day in the Sayyed al-Shouhada'a complex in Beirut's southern suburb where Resistance supporters were gathering long hours before the festival started.
 
The Resistance leader started his speech by paying tribute to all martyrs who paid high sacrifices, including their pure blood, in order for others to live with glory and honor. "In this day of every year, we meet to celebrate a precious occasion and to renew our pride and glory for our martyrs alongside honoring them," Sayyed Nasrallah said. "We always remember our martyrs, secretly and publicly, in sorrow and in joy, we always remember our martyrs at all occasions, we remember our martyrs in everything we do, we learn from their sacrifices and blood," his eminence noted, adding that those martyrs were the ones who drew our path and allowed us, through their soul and pure blood, to live without a favor from anyone."
 
"A few are the Resistance movements and states that actually appreciate their martyrs and consecrate them," Sayyed Nasrallah noted, adding that this wasn't strange. "Perhaps our belief in the value and the worth of our martyrs makes us so committed to our martyrs," his eminence said.
 
Hezbollah Secretary General then exploited the opportunity to remember all the martyrs from the Resistance leaders who have fallen in more than 26 years since the creation of the Resistance movement. In this context, Sayyed Nasrallah recalled the "the Sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance", Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was the first martyr among the Resistance founders, followed by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi, and of course, Islamic Resistance top commander Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan) who has joined the procession in 2008.
 
His eminence also remembered Ahmad Kassir, the one who opened the martyrdom legend and was at the origin of the Martyr's day, the day which was transformed into a title for every martyr and Jihad as well as the title of the Resistance's victories and the enemy's lesions. Sayyed Nasrallah said that Kassir's martyrdom operation of 1982 was the one that set up all the Resistance's victories, whether the 2000 Liberation or the Divine victory of July 2006.
 
"Why November 11, 2008?" Sayyed Nasrallah wondered to quickly answer that this was the date of the first operation... "and it was the cry of the population and the nation, it was the foundation of the path of Resistance against the enemy." His eminence pointed out that 11/11/1982 has become the martyrs' day whether a leader, a secretary general, a jihadist or a member killed on the battle field.
 
SAYYED NASRALLAH: WE ARE COMMITTED TO OUR ALLIANCES IN OPPOSITION LINE
Hezbollah Secretary General then moved to the Lebanese internal politics and declared once again Hezbollah firm support to all reconciliation efforts as well as all forms of honesty and frankness between the various political factions. "We support extending our hands to all, no matter in which position they are located," Sayyed Nasrallah stressed, reiterating that the calm political atmosphere should be in everybody's interest. "Everybody has an interest in a calm political atmosphere, especially after all what happened since the election of the president and the formation of the cabinet and the heading to the parliamentary elections," his eminence explained.
 
"Reconciliation does not only prevent sedition and removes tensions, but it also helps in finding positive climates we need especially that it puts an end to instigation and provocation between rival political factions," Sayyed Nasrallah said, pointing out that that each party has the right to criticize the others' political stands, but this freedom stops when it becomes a strategy to offend others.
 
Sayyed Nasrallah also tackled the forthcoming 2009 parliamentary elections, saying that Hezbollah insists the mentioned elections must take place on their due date regardless of everything. "It is illogical for anyone to expect something else from us, no matter what the polls say," the Resistance leader pointed out. "If these elections were not held on time, this would be very dangerous for Lebanon," his eminence warned, calling on all factions to keep away of mutual accusations of postponement or obstruction since "it is everybody's inertest to have proper elections."
 
Meanwhile, Hezbollah Secretary General made sure to affirm once again that reconciliations taking place lately would not change political alliances. "We are committed to our alliances in the opposition line and they shall not be affected by any reconciliation," Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out.
 
Always speaking about elections, Sayyed Nasrallah also renewed the opposition's serious demand to lower the voting age to 18, calling on Lebanese MPs from all parliamentary blocs to introduce amendments. His eminence remembered here, once again, martyr Ahmad Kassir who opened the martyrdom legend, but, however, was below 18 and therefore not eligible to vote!
 
Meanwhile, the Resistance leader announced Hezbollah support for security coordination between Lebanon and Syria, calling on to strengthen it to unveil crimes. His eminence asked for serious and transparent investigations to reveal the truth in all security incidents in Lebanon and Syria, renewing Hezbollah demand that justice be removed from politics.
 
SAYYED NASRALLAH: WE INSIST ON ENDING DISCUSSIONS ON NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY
Turning to the defensive strategy to protect the country against the Zionist entity, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the Zionists have been performing, since the July war, continuous maneuvers in the occupied Golan Heights and Northern Palestine. "Israel is increasing communication with agents and recruiting new agents," Sayyed Nasrallah noted.
 
His eminence tackled the latest achievements of the Lebanese Army, noting mainly the discovery of an Israeli Mossad-linked terrorist network in the Bekaa. Sayyed Nasrallah expressed hope that the day will come when the evidence shows that Israel has been implicated in the bombings and assassinations that have occurred in Lebanon.
 
On the defense strategy, Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated Hezbollah openness to all figures, denying the Resistance party was seeking to postpone its discussion. "We insist on ending discussion of national defense strategy," Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out, explaining that settling the issue was one of the strength points in confronting Israel.
 
"But what's happening at the dialogue roundtable?" Sayyed Nasrallah wondered. "During the last session of the national dialogue, the president requested that General Aoun present his vision of national defense strategy. Disappointedly, information was leaked and the media started discussing and attacking the proposal," his eminence regretted.
 
Indeed, according to Sayyed Nasrallah, national defense strategy is being turned into a political issue, exploited for electoral purposes, "and this is unacceptable." His eminence told the masses that were listening to his speech that equipping the army was a priority. "Despite the dispute over the defense strategy, there is absolutely no disagreement that the army should have a basic role in the defense of Lebanon," Sayyed Nasrallah noticed.
 
"I read the finance minister's statements saying his ministry does not have sufficient funds to defend the country's air space, and that this should be remedied by resorting to international resolutions. If this is the position of the political group he belongs to, it is a catastrophe," Sayyed Nasrallah said, warning that international resolutions do not protect anyone. "What protect you are your army, resistance, and population," Sayyed Nasrallah declared.
 
SAYYED NASRALLAH: RESISTANCE STRONGER THAN IT HAS EVEN BEEN BEFORE
The Resistance leader, of course, addressed the Israelis, reassuring them once again that defeat would be their fate if they think of any new adventure in Lebanon.
 
Sayyed Nasrallah assured the Israelis that the Resistance was stronger than it has even been before. His eminence said that there were, in Lebanon, great men who work day and night so that the country remains the strongest and the most capable, adding that the Resistance was always ready to accomplish its missions with intense seriousness.
 
"The Israeli tentacles that stretch into Lebanon will be cut just like the Israeli foots were cut in Anssarieh in South Lebanon earlier," Sayyed Nasrallah vowed, telling Zionists that "we'll star here in our land and with our determination and commitment to our land and people." His eminence emphasized that the "psychological war Israelis were launching against the Resistance would find no results at all."
 
SAYYED NASRALLAH CALLS ON ARAB, ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO PREVENT CRIMINAL PERES OF ATTENDING CONFERENCE ON RELIGIONS!
Sayyed Nasrallah also tackled the Conference on Dialogue among Religions and Civilizations and the invitation of the criminal Israeli President Shemon Peres to take part in it.
 
The Resistance leader expressed gratification for the Saudi ambassador Abdel Aziz Khoja clarification. Yet, his eminence called on all Arab and Islamic representatives in the conference to expulse and banish the Israelis out of the conference and prevent all those who were similar to the killer and extremist Peres to attend such a conference and, worse, to talk about the dialogue among civilizations!
 
SAYYED NASRALLAH: US ELECTIONS INDICATOR OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION FAILURE
And at the end of his speech, Sayyed Nasrallah tackled the US presidential elections and the victory of Democrat Barack Obama against Republican John McCain. Sayyed Nasrallah found in the voting results an indicator of Americans' disapproval of outgoing President George W. Bush internal and external policies. "The Americans told the whole world that their government's policies have failed," Sayyed Nasrallah said, adding that the US failure has been achieved, in its major part, thanks to the Resistance movements and region people.
 
Yet, Sayyed Nasrallah called on everybody not to exaggerate hopes in Obama. "This will protect them from the ensuing immense disappointment," his eminence said.

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