Qassem: Lebanon Cannot Exist without the Resistance
Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed on Tuesday that the equation of the army, people, and resistance has granted Lebanon its stability.
He said during a Ashuora sermon: “The Resistance is no longer an element in Lebanon, but one of its major components.”
“Lebanon cannot exist without the Resistance because in the past it used to be weak without it, but now it has become a force to be reckoned with,” he remarked.
“The Resistance has preserved the Lebanese state and people and it has established a unique relationship with the army,” he noted.
“The army, people, and Resistance equation is unique in the world just as Lebanon is unique in its sects,” Qassem continued.
Furthermore, he said that the Resistance will not respond to the criticism against it, stressing that despite the local and regional developments, the party is not fearful over the future.
“Any hardship can be resolved as long as we are performing our duties correctly,” the Hizbullah official stated.
“We are certain that victory will always be on our side,” he said.
He renewed the party’s accusations of espionage against the American Embassy, saying that it is spying for Israel and stirring strife in Lebanon.
Reports last week said Hizbullah had uncovered several operatives within the movement working for the CIA.
In the first acknowledgement of infiltration since the group's founding in the 1980s, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in June had said members of his group confessed to being CIA agents.
Nasrallah accused his arch-foe Israel of turning to the U.S. spy agency after failing to infiltrate his party, slamming the American embassy in Beirut as a "den of spies."
The U.S. embassy in Beirut dismissed the accusations as "empty."
More than 100 people in Lebanon have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel since April 2009, including military personnel and telecoms employees.
over 12 years
hizbushaitan problem is they cannot realize how vulnerable the country is due to their presence in this manner :)
this proves one thing only: they are so happy they control the country with their weapons that they lost sight of anything else, like the cost these weapons will be on lebanon in the near future.
when weapons need to be defended, they lose their value, especially that weapons are normally there to defend us.
over 12 years
The resistance of lies and hell, helping the Zionist dream to become true and helping them to use it for their continues violation by air, sea and Land.
This resistance is a big lie and cover helping the enemy of Lebanon to violate the Lebanese unity. The only resistance is the united Lebanese and their united army, Hezboshaitan is a gang, just like the Drug Cartel of America
over 12 years
I am glad we can now put to rest the naive and absurd claims of some that the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon will hand over it's weapons to the state once the remaining Lebanese occupied territories are liberated.
over 12 years
I beg to differ
Lebanon can do without resistance by strenghening it's National Army.
The same rockets that Hizb uses for retaliation can be handed to the Army and they can retaliate against Israel if Lebanon is attacked.
A national cross sect resistance would be a stability. But an armed party belonging to one sect is a cause of internal civil war. Soon other sects will seek arms to defend themselves against the Hizb who has been threatening and jeopardizing democracy to promote his agenda
over 12 years
hizb will not exist without its illegal weapons...
over 12 years
Is he kidding us or kidding himself? The resistence is the cause of all problems in Lebanon and without it lebanon would have been a stable and properous counttry. On the other hand, what's the role of this clergy in resistence and killing. I guess God that he says he represent will pit him in the last corner of hell to suffer from his transgressions. What this man should do is refrain from being a nuthead and act like a clergyman who should coach people towards peace and love not to killing and resistence.
We have become fed up from these people who want to impose their will on all of us even though we categorically disagree with them. They want us to believe that resistence is an integral part of Lebanon. No sir and a million no. Resistence can't stay for centuries until huzbullah maybe liberates the USA from the infidels. I bet you that if tommorrow Israel disappears, huzbullah will still find a cause to remain as a resistence. Maybe, until he conquers the devil.
over 12 years
Mr Qassem. ALL off Lebanon with all it's sects will coexist fine without your criminal organization. You are doing nothing for Lebanon except dividing it even more.
over 12 years
Again with these autocrats equating the country to themselves.
"Lebanon cannot exist without the resistance" translated means: "Hezbollah cannot exist without the resistance".
As such, it may well be a true statement. What is Hezbollah without its arms. It has never developed into a ruling party or even a political party that can win heats and minds through its ideas. It wins supporters by serving as a medium for transfer of oil money from its Iranian patrons, and by pointing its weapons at the others and daring them to object.
This is not a political party with staying power, but a mafia operation that will melt like the snow on Sannine in the spring time when its patron cuts it off from funds and when its supply of weapons dries up.
over 12 years
Your weapons weaken our country, threatens co-existence, and unbalence the sects equilibrium!
PS: Aren't your weapons getting rusty? They have been sleeping in caves for over 5 years now...Resistance my a..!!
over 12 years
user, actually lebanon can survive just well without the shia, something it did before they came here from iran, kurdistan, east saudi arabia, syria and bahrain.
over 12 years
looking forward to not seeing armed people with turban in Lebanon. Holy people do holy things and for the rest, go somewhere where it is cool to wear a turban and call for jihad !
over 12 years
Blah, blah, blah......the irrelevant towel head is speaking the same tired line again. He isn't waving his finger though.
over 12 years
The compliance of Lebanon with the Arab sanctions is yet another defeat for M8, even if it is just verbal, what happened today from temweel to this is no small matter. This is the "law kuntu a3lam" mode.. soon there will be "law kuntu a3lam" that the nizam in syria will fall i would not have said what i said about the Syrian people. hahahah
over 12 years
Blah blah....u just funded the STL....u my friend are irrelevant
over 12 years
blah blah resistance blah blah Israel blah blah Zionist
over 12 years
That is not a Lebanese face....look at him
over 12 years
I think that now it is called resistance because it is trying to resist IN Lebanon, and not FOR Lebanon.
Get the difference Sir Qassem??
over 12 years
well said user!!
No Sir Qassem,
Lebanon CAN'T live without the shiaa, but it CAN live very well without the resistance, actually it can live better without it!
Just stop brainwashing people and admit that you are losing!