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 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.
Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.
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.
As we see, this is an illegal state; it is a cancerous entity and the root of all the crises and wars and cannot be a factor in bringing about a true and just peace in this region. Therefore, we cannot acknowledge the existence of a state called Israel, not even far in the future, as some people have tried to suggest. Time does not cancel the legitimacy of the Palestinian claim.
America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with one another. There will be no return to civil war. All the political powers as well as the media must work to reduce religious tensions and make everyone understand that they will not allow Lebanon to be destroyed again.
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.
We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.
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.