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Nasrallah: ' The whole world cannot disarm Hezbollah'
Hezbollah leader sheikh Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech today via a video link during a rally to mark the Hezbollah martyr day, in the southern suburb of Beirut. As he spoke firearms were heard in Beirut and the Hezbollah stronghold in al Dahia , south of Lebanon's capital . He started his defiant speech by praising Sheikh Ahmad Kassir, who drove a car strapped with explosives right into the headquarters of the Israeli commander in the city of Tyre, south of Lebanon on November 11, 1982, wounding and killing 141 Israeli officers. He called Kassir the prince of all martyrs.

Nasrallah attacked the Lebanese government accusing it of siding with the United States and Israel against the resistance and doing nothing about recovering the Shebaa Farms

He also attacked the United Sates and accused it of meddling in Lebanese presidential elections to make sure that the new president implements UN resolution 1559 which calls for disarming all the militia in Lebanon including Hezbollah. He said " no one can ever disarm Hezbollah....he added " the whole world cannot disarm Hezbollah".
He's got a point: the French can't, the Germans can't, the Spanish wouldn't, the Italians couldn't, the Cypriots can't, but the Americans ...
Nasrallha questioned the worldwide interest in the Lebanese elections and insisted that no election should take place unless the quorum is met. This is in reference to the demand by opposition that 2 thirds of the parliament should be in attendance in order to elect a president.

He lashed out at the parliament majority which is supported by the world community except Syria and Iran and said " they want a president that divides us and disarms us, we want a president that unites us and allows us to keep our arms"
"We want a president that will let us have our state within a state!"
He accused the parliament majority of wanting all the high positions for themselves" They want the presidency , the prime ministerial position and the army chief's position." Nasrallah challenged the majority by calling for early elections of the parliament and "whoever achieves two third majority will be able to elect the new president of the republic"

Lebanon's parliament majority accused Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria of wanting a president that is a clone of outgoing pro-Syrian president Emil Lahoud. Syrian president Bashar el Assad calls Lahoud " my personal representative in Lebanon. The election of a new president was postponed 4 times by Hezbollah ally speaker Nabih Berri . the new date is set for November 21 , or 3 days before the term of Lahoud ends.
Posted by: Fred 2007-11-12
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