Nasrallah Honoring Yakan: We Will Continue on the Same Path and Spread Culture of Resistance among Muslims
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah repeated Monday calls by the late Muslim leader Fathi Yakan for the expansion of the culture of resistance among the Muslims, in a televised speech aired during an event to commemorate the prominent cleric.
Nasrallah also issued a stern warning against attempts to incite sectarian sedition in the country and called on the Lebanese to put their weight behind the resistance.
Remembering Yakan, Nasrallah said: "Lebanon is witnessing a difficult, complicated and dangerous phase that needs someone with Yakan”s courage, devotion and commitment.
"We will continue on the same path. We are required to work toward spreading out the resistance in the Muslim arenas as Yakan wished."
Nasrallah”s focus on the resistance came as tensions escalated along Lebanon”s southern border with Israeli tanks approaching an area of Kfarshouba Hills where civilians marched on an Israeli post last week. According to Lebanese media reports, the Lebanese army has been placed on high alert.
Addressing the Israeli threats, Nasrallah said: "We hear of a new war being planned against Lebanon as Israel escalates its tone.
"The Israelis have learned from their mistakes (in the July 2006 war) and have been correcting their points of weakness.
"They are speaking of a new war to eradicate the resistance from the Lebanese territories. This means it is a war against Lebanon and to displace the Palestinians of 1948."
"I say that our enemies have done all that can be done to harm the resistance and have failed," he added.
Nasrallah called on the Lebanese to "once again embrace the resistance and the culture of resistance" as a way to combat the Israeli schemes.
He recalled the national disunity that prevailed in Lebanon during and after the 2006 war and criticized those who "conspired against the resistance" then.
"The past years witnessed the climax of conspiracy against the resistance," he said.
"The battle against the resistance was not limited to its arsenal. It went to the level of belittling the culture of resistance and its martyrs. It was a comprehensive and broad attack," he said.
However, he said, the division was "political, although some were promoting it as sectarian."
"I tell all of those who are betting on sectarian strife in Lebanon that we will not let them take over our national arena," he said.
"Our speeches have always adhered to a patriotic and national tone. We have always been keen to bring people together and to shun all sectarian speeches that some have released," he said.