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.
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