The army of the Zionist enemy is continuing its
aggression against Lebanon for its third consecutive
week. From its very beginning stage, this aggression has
taken the form of a savage predatory war. Neither man
nor stone is safe from its fiery hell, nor are human and
civil institutions, the media, or the infrastructure. The
Zionist killing machine has most recently targeted even
international observers.
This savage raging storm that took as its pretext the
kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers has exceeded all
possible responses in such circumstances as it seeks to
wreak vengeance on Lebanon and its people in an attempt
to inflict the greatest possible harm to Lebanon under
the heading of destroying the military and command
structure of Hezbollah with the most intensely
destructive and deadly weapons and with the most cowardly
and barbaric means. The United States has revealed
itself as a vicious and shameless participant in this
war. Its administration has proclaimed openly that it
hopes to see the “dawn of a new Middle East,” completing
its plan for seizing control of the region, its
resources, and the destinies of its people, a plan that
was launched with the American invasion of Iraq more than
three years ago.
Although the Zionist air force, navy, and artillery have
continued to kill and destroy they have failed to achieve
their assigned goals and so the Zionists have now been
compelled to launch a ground offensive, something they
have tried to avoid since their ignoble departure from
Lebanon in the year 2000. For a week now they have been
trying to advance in order to occupy Lebanese lands in
the district of Bint-Jbeil, specifically the Marun ar-Ras
junction, the town of Bint-Jbeil, and the surrounding
area. Those murderers are trying to occupy and desecrate
our holy land once again, to impose their conditions and
the conditions of their masters by means of the killing,
massacres, displacement, and destruction at which the
Zionist war machine excels in criminality and savagery.
And as usual, Washington is backing them up and
supporting them, even if that means that it must oppose
the whole world!
The viciousness of the aggression and the dangerous goals
it has set itself place serious responsibilities upon the
people of Lebanon: to repulse, resist, and frustrate its
aims. They also obligate the Lebanese government to
abandon the policy of complicity, complacency, or
dreaming about American or “international” protection.
The United States is a participant in the aggression and
it must be treated firmly on this basis.
The people and government must unite in the
confrontation, taking all the necessary stances and
measures on the level of policy, military action,
security, and people’s livelihood. To this end we need a
real government of national unity that distinguishes
between Lebanon’s friends and enemies in the light of the
results of the aggression, a government that constitutes
a real backer and partner with the heroes of the
resistance who once again are the makers of Lebanon’s
glory, defending its land, sovereignty, unity, and
existence in the face of the criminal American-Zionist
war machine.
Israel is trying once again to occupy parts of the land
of Lebanon, to destroy its people, and its civilization.
The Islamic resistance continues to make heroic
sacrifices and score heroic victories. Our army is
standing steadfast after its officers and men were
targeted in what amounted to a cowardly assassination
attempt. At this time duty to the homeland calls on us
to join in the resistance struggle and stand up to the
occupiers and their crimes. This is our duty as political
parties, leftist and democratic patriotic forces,
personalities, and fighters who once played an honorable
part in defending the homeland against aggression, who in
the Lebanese National Resistance Front in 1982 and
afterwards performed acts of heroism that our people
remember with pride and glory.
We call on our youth to bring back that experience, to
take inspiration from it, and build upon it, joining the
resistance struggle by standing steadfast in their
villages and towns. We call on them to take up arms and
meet the hordes of the aggressor in defense of our land,
our sovereignty, our people, and all things we hold
sacred.
The homeland is passing through a historic stage. Our
people will triumph, bringing in the dawn of freedom,
sovereignty, and unity for our homeland and Arab nation,
vanquishing and routing all those who would plunder,
invade, and occupy.
