Nasrallah's speech is characterized by a political and comprehensive world and strategic view.
Two years
ago, during the second Israeli war against Lebanon, we published not a few
texts of the Hizbullah, including speeches by Sheikh Nasrallah. This was
necessary, in light of the crucial role played by the Hizbullah in thwarting
the American-Israeli comprehensive war in West Asia,
and in transforming the region into one of the most humiliating defeats of this
American-Israeli strategy.
If Israeli
politicians would take the time to read the words of Nasrallah and other
Hizbullah leaders, it is possible they would better understand the meaning of
the Israeli defeat; if peace activists took more of an interest in the
political thought of the Lebanese organization, it is reasonable they would be
less surprised by the results of the 2006 military adventure. However, both of
these groups are stuck in stereotypes and prejudices and will therefore, time
after time, be surprised.
For our
part, we will not stop taking an interest in one of the most important
political movements in the Arab world, and to translate some of what is written
and said by its leaders so that the Israeli women and men activists, at least
them, will understand what is occurring on the regional political stage. Below
is a selection from a speech given by Nasrallah on the occasion of the prisoner
exchange and freeing of Samir Kuntar. The speech is characterized by a
political and comprehensive world and strategic view far removed from the image
of “religious fanaticism” which is affixed to his words by the Israeli media,
“commentators” and “experts in Arab matters”.
“[…]We must
emphasise that resistance movements in this region, and particularly in
Palestine and Lebanon, complement each other, represent one continuity while
their efforts, experience and victims are accumulative, all in order to attain
the same goals: freeing of land, the people and the holy places.
Brothers
and sisters. From the place on which we are standing, and at the side of the fallen
from the past thirty years, we are reminded of the sacrifices of all the
resistance fighters, Lebanese, Palestinian and Arabs, Islamic, national or
pan-Arab, from the entire intellectual rainbow and from all the organizations.
We are proud of them, and we respect and cherish all the organisations, parties
of resistance and all the activists and fallen who came before us on the path
of resistance and struggle. We benefit from your experience, receive
inspiration from your sacrifice and preserve your respected place in the past,
present and future of the resistance.
In this
context, I wish to repeat what I have said in the past: the real identity of
the peoples in our region, their deep and continuous identity, is resistance,
the desire to resist, the culture of resistance, the opposition to the
occupation, the oppressors and oppression, whoever the occupiers, oppressed and
rulers may be. This is the reason you will always find, throughout entire
decades, those who will take up the flag of resistance, a flag that will not
slip as it is passed from hand to hand, from group to group, from organization
to organization, from party to party. The names of these organizations and
their addresses are nothing but a superficial and passing phenomenon. The real
character of the people is the resistance and refusal to accept injustice and
the oppressors […]”
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