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| Nasrallah: We will not recognize Israel even in 1,000 years |
| 2009-03-14 |
| In a recorded speech aired Friday evening in Beirut in honor of Prophet Muhammad's birthday, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly rejected a preliminary US condition for talks and stressed his group would not recognize Israel "even in 1,000 years." "Today the United States comes and says to us: You are terrorists and we are willing to forgive you for what has been, under the condition that you recognize Israel," French news agency AFP quoted Nasrallah as saying. The Jerusalem Post could not independently confirm the report. Nasrallah stressed that the Lebanese people are "capable of defeating this entity (Israel) and can make it disappear," and therefore, Hizbullah will not recognize Israel "not today, not tomorrow, not even in 1,000 years." According to the French agency, after harshly rejecting Obama administration conditions for dialogue, according to which the group must denounce terror and recognize the Jewish state, Nasrallah touched on Hizbullah's ties with the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. He reportedly emphasized that while there was much good faith and support between the terror groups, "Hizbullah has no faction or organization in Gaza." "Our status is that of a brother helping his brother, and we will help anything decided by the leadership of the Palestinian resistance," he concluded. The new US administration's readiness to reach out to adversary regimes, such as Syria and Iran, has been a hallmark of its new foreign policy, but this has so far not extended to groups on its official terrorist registry, such as Hizbullah and Hamas. A senior US official on Thursday expressed strong disagreement with the British decision to begin contacts with Hizbullah, The Los Angeles Times reported Friday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Nasrallah: We will not recognize Israel even in 1,000 years Your brand of thuggism will be dead and gone long before that. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-14 12:20 |
| #3 I t could be me but when you make speeches about tsomeone then you are pretty much recognizing them as a force too be reckoned with |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-14 11:18 |
| #2 his group would not recognize Israel "even in 1,000 years." of course not. In 1000 years Israel will look a lot more successful, prosperous, and civil. Her neighbors, on the other hand, will still be living in UNRWA-managed refugee camps, flinging rocks and feces with radiation-damaged misshapen claws, seething about the Juice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-14 08:17 |
| #1 Unless the surprise meter is not out of town for the week end, this might be an excellent opportunity. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-14 08:01 |