Nasrallah says polls a 'political July War', urges voting for 'resistance, allies'
The May 15 parliamentary polls will be a "political July War" and Hizbullah “will practice political resistance in the elections in order to preserve the military resistance,” Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday.
“Those who want to defend Lebanon, extract its oil resources and protect its waters must vote for the resistance and its allies,” Nasrallah told a Hizbullah electoral rally via video link.
“I call on you to stand by the resistance and by its allies, because they are also targeted,” he urged.
“Some are saying that they won't vote for the resistance due to the economic crisis, but we say that the resistance will guarantee extracting oil and gas from the territorial waters in order to resolve the crisis,” Nasrallah added.
Accusing political rivals of seeking to abandon Lebanon’s “biggest strength for extracting its oil and gas,” Nasrallah said, addressing the Lebanese state and people, that “they have a brave resistance that can prevent the enemy from exploring for oil and gas.”
“Hundreds of billions of dollars are present in our sea and waters,” Nasrallah said of the potential oil and gas reserves.
He added that those “calling for disarming the resistance” want Lebanon to be “exposed to the Israeli army.”
“Does Israel dare to bomb any area in Lebanon today?” Nasrallah asked, attributing the deterrence to Hizbullah’s presence.
“We respect the army and it has a national creed and competent officers and soldiers, but is it capable of shouldering this responsibility at the moment?” he asked.
Moreover, Nasrallah said that his party is ready to discuss a national defense strategy because it has “reason and evidence.”
He added that those calling for disarming Hizbullah have not offered “an alternative” in the face of Israel.
“Who will protect the South and Lebanon if the resistance abandons its duties… The resistance is what's protecting Lebanon today,” Nasrallah went on to say.
Lamenting that some politicians “do not consider Israel an enemy” and do not believe that “it has ambitions regarding Lebanon's water and gas,” Hizbullah’s leader strongly emphasized that “no one will be able to disarm the resistance.”
“I want all Lebanese to know that those calling today for disarming the resistance do not know what the South has gone through since 1948,” he said, decrying that “some political forces have unfortunately made the issue of the weapons of the resistance the main topic of their electoral campaigns.”
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09 May 2022, 18:48
Nasrallah: Those who want to defend Lebanon, extract its oil resources and protect its waters must vote for the resistance and its allies.
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09 May 2022, 18:45
Nasrallah: Some are saying that they won't vote for the resistance due to the economic crisis, but we say that the resistance will guarantee extracting oil and gas from the territorial waters in order to resolve the crisis.
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09 May 2022, 18:43
Nasrallah: This resistance is not a transient resistance and its people will not abandon it. This resistance is the resistance of Imam Sharafeddine, Imam al-Sadr, Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah and Sheikh Mohammed Mahdi Shamseddine.
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09 May 2022, 18:41
Nasrallah: I call on you to stand by the resistance and by its allies, because they are also targeted.
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09 May 2022, 18:40
Nasrallah: The elections will be a "political July War" and we will practice political resistance in the elections in order to preserve the military resistance.
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09 May 2022, 18:32
Nasrallah to rivals: Even if Hizbullah is disarmed, the Americans will ask you to normalize with Israel and naturalize the Palestinians in Lebanon.
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09 May 2022, 18:30
Nasrallah: They want Lebanon to abandon its biggest strength for extracting its oil and gas.
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09 May 2022, 18:27
Nasrallah: I tell the Lebanese state and people that they have a brave resistance that can prevent the enemy from exploring for oil and gas.
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09 May 2022, 18:25
Nasrallah on offshore gas: Hundreds of billions of dollars are present in our sea and waters.
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09 May 2022, 18:22
Nasrallah: Those calling for disarming the resistance want Lebanon to be exposed to the Israeli army... Does Israel dare to bomb any area in Lebanon today?
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09 May 2022, 18:21
Nasrallah: Regardless of the army, the other problem will be taking a political decision to response to Israel.
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09 May 2022, 18:20
Nasrallah: We respect the army and it has a national creed and competent officers and soldiers, but is it capable of shouldering this responsibility at the moment?
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09 May 2022, 18:19
Nasrallah: We are ready to discuss a national defense strategy because we have reason and evidence.
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09 May 2022, 18:18
Nasrallah: They boycotted the dialogue table called for by the President because they do not want to engage in discussions.
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09 May 2022, 18:17
Nasrallah on those calling for disarming Hizbullah: They have not offered us an alternative (in the face of Israel).
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09 May 2022, 18:16
Nasrallah: Who will protect the South and Lebanon if the resistance abandons its duties.
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09 May 2022, 18:14
Nasrallah: The resistance is what's protecting Lebanon today.
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09 May 2022, 18:14
Nasrallah: Some in Lebanon acknowledge our resistance and liberation, but protecting Lebanon is also important.
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09 May 2022, 18:13
Nasrallah: The resistance in Lebanon defused the mines of sectarian strife after Israel's withdrawal from the South, contrary to what happened in other regions.
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09 May 2022, 18:09
Nasrallah: Those calling for abolishing the resistance and disarming it are overlooking achievements that are the greatest in Lebanon's history.
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09 May 2022, 18:07
Nasrallah responding to remarks by Geagea: Imam Moussa al-Sadr established the resistance and planned for it. Ever since he arrived in Lebanon, he called on the Lebanese state to protect the South from Israeli attacks.
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09 May 2022, 18:04
Nasrallah: We have not dared to say what Imam al-Sadr used to say (about Israel).
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09 May 2022, 18:03
Nasrallah: Imam al-Sadr had called for eradicating Israel.
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09 May 2022, 18:02
Nasrallah: The Lebanese state has been studying a defense strategy since 1975.
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09 May 2022, 18:01
Nasrallah: The residents of the South resorted to resistance due to the Lebanese state's abandonment of the South.
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09 May 2022, 17:59
Nasrallah: No one will be able to disarm the resistance.
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09 May 2022, 17:55
Nasrallah: Some politicians do not consider Israel an enemy and do not believe that it has ambitions regarding Lebanon's water and gas.
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09 May 2022, 17:52
Nasrallah: They have recently resorted to falsification and disinformation.
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09 May 2022, 17:51
Nasrallah: Those saying that Israel attacked the South in response to Palestinian operations are ignorant or liars.
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09 May 2022, 17:51
Nasrallah: In the 1960s, Israel bombed the al-Wazzani project.
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09 May 2022, 17:50
Nasrallah: In the 1950s, the enemy's army used to enter into southern villages and to even kidnap security forces.
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09 May 2022, 17:49
Nasrallah: Israel displaced the residents of the border towns and carried out a horrible massacre in Houla prior to the establishment of any resistance movement.
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09 May 2022, 17:47
Nasrallah: A political leader said during national dialogue that Israel has not aggressed against Lebanon.
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09 May 2022, 17:46
Nasrallah: I want all Lebanese to know that those calling today for disarming the resistance do not know what the South has gone through since 1948.
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09 May 2022, 17:45
Nasrallah: Some political forces have unfortunately made the issue of the weapons of the resistance the main topic of their electoral campaigns.
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09 May 2022, 17:42
Nasrallah: I would have liked to be among you in person, but this is part of the battle's requirements.
10 May 2022, 10:15
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The day this evil Iranian sectarian terrorist is brutally and violently murdered is the day we celebrate our true independence.
09 May 2022, 20:31
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Hizbollastan is sucking life out of Lebanon via its puppets Aoun, Bassil and Frangieh. These are traitors million times worse than Vichy government. Basij have impoverished, isolated and destroyed what Lebanese have built in generations. They are a cancer living on sucking every drop of blood from current and future generations. Never Lebanon was so weak, destitute, impoverished, unsecure, living with no justice, dignity, freedom or democracy. Time to cut the cancer out and declare independence from Hizbollastan so Lebanon in no time can save its soul, punish its traitors, and regain its economic, financial and educational role; the shining city on the hill, Paris of the ME, and a beacon of democracy in the region.
09 May 2022, 21:11
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Gebran Bassil December 2017 (as Lebanon's Foreign Minister) to Al-Mayadeen: "There is no ideological problem with Israel, and we do not reject its existence. Israel has the right to safety. All we care about is for people to recognize one another."
Nasrallah: Imam al-Sadr had called for eradicating Israel.
Gebran Bassil called for Israel's right to exist, vote for him and his party said Nasrallah they are allies.
Nasrallah: "some politicians “do not consider Israel an enemy” and he want's you to vote in force for those politicians.
09 May 2022, 21:11
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Nasrallah: In the 1950s, the enemy's army used to enter into southern villages and to even kidnap security forces.
Also in the 1950s the Syrian army entered and occupied Shebaa Farms and killed some members of the Lebanese General Security stationed there. The Syrians lost the farms along with the the Golan in 1967. Since 2000 the farms have been used as a pretext for the Iranian militia to keep it's arms while the Syrian regime refuses to give the appropriate documentations proving that the farms are Lebanese.
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Nasrallah: "I would have liked to be among you in person" but he would rather stay hidden in the sewers where it is safe. He'll stay there until he dies of old age or of a disease, martyrdom is overrated.
