Hezbollah MP: Beware of playing with fire with us
MP Ali al-Meqdad of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc said “Lebanon should be protected by all its components and segments and by its resistance and army, which they want to put today in the face of the resistance.”
“We want this army to keep standing with the resistance and with its people to protect Lebanon,” Meqdad added, during the funeral of a Hezbollah member Alaa Haidar, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Kfardan near Baalbek.
"At the moment of your martyrdom, the government meeting at the presidential palace was approving your blood spilling, your targeting and your killing. Unfortunately, during the session, they did not hear that a great martyr and leader had been martyred in the Bekaa Valley. They only listened to American and Israeli dictates,” Meqdad charged
He added that the government’s decision on Hezbollah’s disarmament “will remain ink on paper.”
“I assure you that what happened yesterday in the Council of Ministers is not worth the ink with which it was written," he said.
Meqdad added” "Yesterday, the mother of three martyrs called me and asked me, 'What's going on? Are you selling the blood of the martyrs?' I accept the surrender of the weapons on the condition that you return to me my three martyred sons and the most sacred martyr, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. She wanted to use her impossible condition to tell this government that abandoning the resistance's weapons is impossible, and we stand behind this pure and noble mother.”
He continued, "Don't play with fire with us. We are the first to demand protection and stability for this country.”
“Let what happened remain within its theoretical framework. The families of the martyrs will not allow the resistance to sell the blood of the martyrs, let alone the millions who all support the resistance! Every honorable person who refuses humiliation and degradation in Lebanon is a resistance fighter," Meqdad added.
The government had on Tuesday taken a historic decision to monopolize arms in the hands of the state before the year’s end and on Thursday it approved the objectives of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s paper, which focuses on the disarmament of Hezbollah and other armed groups in the country.
The ministers of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement walked out of both sessions in protest.
08 August 2025, 19:14
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I think he needs to address what 'resistance' means, because to many it seems to be a way for this foreign funded and controled armed group to keep lebanon in the dark ages 'resisting' progress.
The definition where 'resistance' defends lebanon has been made moot by its actions and its inability last year to actually 'defend' lebanon.
08 August 2025, 20:13
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al-Meqdad is willful in his sophistry. The government of Lebanon knows well "that a great martyr and leader had been martyred in the Bekaa Valley" and it knows that he was martyred for a purpose that has nothing to do with the will of Lebanon or its people.
al-Meqdad wishes that his purpose was embraced by Lebanon and her citizens, but instead it has been rejected as an unwelcome foreigner's adventure he has helped bring to the country against the people's interests.
Hezbollah is mistaken in believing that the government and elected officials are playing a game. The government is deadly serious and earnest in its intention to re-establish sovereign control over all of Lebanon.
Hezbollah, especially supposed leaders who fled to the safety of nations hostile to this government's purpose, would be wrong to test the metal of this President Aoun.
09 August 2025, 13:38
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How about you keep your weapons and remain ONLY in south Lebanon, dahyeh and Baalbeck WITHOUT sending your people to the rest of the areas in Lebanon so that You and Israel can settle your scores?
You want more bleeding to your own people then you can have it.
