Nasrallah Says Israel's Planned Wall Signals Its 'Defeat', Hizbullah to Leave Eastern Border
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel's decision to build a wall along Lebanon's border is an acknowledgment of its “defeat,” as he declared that Hizbullah will end its military presence on Lebanon's eastern border with Syria.
“This border wall is an acknowledgment of Lebanon's massive victory and Israel's defeat. It is a defeat of Israel's schemes and ambitions and an acknowledgment of the fall of the Greater Israel project which wanted to establish a state from the Nile to the Euphrates,” said Nasrallah in a televised speech marking the first anniversary of the death in Syria of Hizbullah military commander Mustafa Badreddine.
“I call on the Lebanese people to trust the golden army-people-resistance equation because the enemy won't carry out its threats,” Nasrallah added.
And in a repeat of his famous statement, Hizbullah's chief said that “when Israel hides behind high walls, it means that it is 'weaker than a spider's web.'”
“The talk of an Israeli war on Lebanon and the resistance that has been going on for months now is part of the usual psychological war and the people should not fear it,” Nasrallah added.
“I call on the Lebanese people and all those living in Lebanon to live their normal life, seeing as Israel has been launching threats for 12 years. Trust God who gave you several victories and trust your golden army-people-resistance equation,” Hizbullah's leader said.
Turning to Lebanon's eastern border, Nasrallah revealed that Hizbullah “has started dismantling its military posts” there, seeing as its mission in the Lebanese-Syrian border region “has been accomplished.”
As for the situation in the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, where jihadists from the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front groups are entrenched, Nasrallah said Hizbullah is ready to “communicate with the Syrian regime to return the biggest number of refugees to their villages in Syria.”
“We call on the Lebanese political forces who might have contacts with the militants in Arsal's outskirts to help and cooperate in order to evacuate them from the area,” Nasrallah said.
As for the electoral law crisis, Hizbullah's secretary general said “there is real hope to reach a new electoral law and things have made a lot of progress.”
“Dialogue must continue and the political rhetoric must be pacified,” he urged.
“Escalating the political rhetoric would complicate the efforts to reach an electoral law,” Nasrallah warned.
Source: Naharnet
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