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
The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.
The Sharm el-Sheikh summit did not produce an agreement. It was a failure. They brought them together just to tell them - stop fighting.
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 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.
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that 'I'm a cleric, you need to pray behind me.'
We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
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.
The protests must be pursued everywhere. Bush and Rice should keep quiet and we tell them that we will not forgive those who offend our Prophet.
We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.
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.
There will be no compromise before we receive an apology.
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.