Moussawi: Resistance Can't Wait for National Approval, Its Sacrifices Made Independence Day Possible

Hizbullah MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi stated on Friday that the resistance has never asked for national consensus since its establishment, noting also that there would have not been Independence Day if it weren't for the party's sacrifices.

"If it weren't for the resistance, no one would have thought about celebrating Independence Day and if it weren't for the resistance, the land would have been still under occupation and most of the people in prisons,” al-Moussawi said in a speech he gave at a funeral in Deir Amass town.

He added: “If we waited for national consensus in 1982, the resistance would have not been founded because a large group of Lebanese adopted policies that made them strategic allies to Israel.”

"What is known historically is that the resistance since its establishment and through its work, it never sought national consensus and if it did, we wouldn't have liberated the land.”

Therefore, waiting for national accord as a requirement to face dangerous threats is a condition that has no basis, according to the Hizbullah official.

"When we perceive a threat we cannot wait for national consensus over confronting it.”

However, al-Moussawi pointed out that independence is incomplete because “a country is dictating a group of Lebanese and confiscating national decision.”

"By this, this country is obstructing the work in the constitutional institutions, preventing the formation of a new cabinet and the convening of the parliament.”

Al-Moussawi was hinting at Saudi Arabia in his speech.

He stressed that what protects Lebanon is eliminating Takfiris in Syria to preserve diversity in the country.

"If the Takfiris triumph in Syria, Lebanon will not longer exist,” he warned.

Lebanon celebrated on Friday 70 years of independence amid the growing threat of terrorism, the widening gap between Lebanon's political parties and the huge burden of the Syrian refugees.

A string of deadly bombings and sectarian gunbattles linked to Syria has left hundreds of casualties in several areas, mainly Hizbullah strongholds - Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa - and the northern city of Tripoli.

The latest bombings targeted the Iranian embassy in the Beirut neighborhood of Bir Hassan, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Tuesday. An al-Qaida-linked group claimed it carried out the twin suicide bombings, raising fears of Iraqi-style attacks in the country.

Also, there has been no functioning government since premier-designate Tammam Salam's appointment in April because of divisions between the March 8 and March 14 alliances over Syria.

Moreover, for the past 2 and a half years, Hizbullah has been involved in the fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces in the neighboring country's war, amid wide local and international opposition to its interfering in Syria's turmoil.