Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallahis the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary party Hezbollah since his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces in February 1992. Hezbollah has since been designated a terrorist organization, either wholly or in part, by the United States, European Union and other nations. Nasrallah is often referred to as "al-Sayyid Hassan", the honorific "Sayyid" denoting descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson Husain ibn Ali...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionRevolutionary
Date of Birth31 August 1960
CountryLebanon
We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.
Our policy is clear, we are fighting in an area that is still under occupation in Lebanon. And beyond that area, we are on the defensive.
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Efforts for compromise are being made while the offensive campaign is gathering steam and more newspapers are publishing the cartoon. There will be no compromise before we get an apology.
What is illegal cannot be legal just because it has been 50 years. Occupation remains occupation, even if it's for hundreds of years.
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
The Sharm el-Sheikh summit did not produce an agreement. It was a failure. They brought them together just to tell them - stop fighting.
There will be no compromise before we receive an apology.
But with regards to Hezbollah, we are in a state of confrontation with Israeli occupiers and the battle is not over yet. It is still going on.
When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.
The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.