Aoun: Lebanon’s Future Linked to Resistance

The head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc in Lebanon MP Michel Aoun congratulated on Sunday all Lebanese on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the victory achieved by the Resistance against the Israeli enemy in the July 2006 war. In an interview with An-Nour radio station, Aoun stressed that the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese nation were still at the side of the Resistance, despite the fact that some sides have not realized the importance of this victory and its effect on the Lebanese and Lebanon’s future. Aoun said that Lebanon’s future is “closely linked to the Resistance and the powers that are confronting Israel’s policies.” He reiterated that the Israeli enemy was an aggressive entity that only seeks domination and expansion. “We cannot survive as a nation without these powers and without the Resistance’s support,” Aoun said. “This need resulted in the equation of the people, army, and Resistance,” he noted. Asked whether Israel would wage another war against Lebanon, the FPM leader expressed belief that the defeat will remain with Israel for a long time and it will be very difficult to rid itself of the memory and outcomes. “It was the first such defeat that it ever experienced,” he said. “As long as Israel is unable to make peace with its surrounding, it will not survive,” Aoun noted. The General said that the region was witnessing nowadays the beginning of the Israeli decline. “If we take a look at the different stages of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, we see that the 2000 phase was the balance while the 2006 was the beginning of the collapse for Israel,” he pointed out. Aoun concluded that Israeli people undoubtedly want peace because no peoples can live only to wage wars but the Zionist leaderships have something else in mind. “It’s true that they speak of peace, but they don’t really want it,” he said.

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