Why Do We Want The Resistance and Its Arms

(TRANSLATED BY moqawama.org ) By Sami Khadra As-Safir, 13-08-2011 Since our early life and the beginning of our conscience, we have been witnessing the different "Israeli" aggressions on daily basis, be it through land, sea, air, or espionage; of which are hard to count. At the time, we got addicted to insecurity, as we saw the "Israeli" warplanes broke the sound barrier to an extent that its absence for a while made us feel something unusual has happened! Death falling upon us was probable every day, and so were abductions and the various types of attacks, even farmers in their fields and shepherds were targets. And how can we forget the night air drops at the hills and shores, of which the villages of Naemeh, Rmeileh, Damour, Adloun, al-Qasimiyeh and others witness. Not to mention the things we knew and saw its effects when we were children. As to what we do not know or remember, these are with no doubt manifold. We never felt safe except when the Islamic Resistance, -of a unique and model performance- came to light, as it planned, initiated, retaliated, invaded, scared, threatened, and abducted... a resistance to which importance is attached to. Only during the "era of resistance " did we truly feel our humanity, and our right to living far from the boring, ineffective, trivial, and obsolete chant of human rights. We felt we have become humans, and started to write our history and make it, just like the all the other respectful peoples of this world. We imposed our respect on others, and sop the resistance to us became a need and a necessity, if it existed we did, otherwise we did not. Today, we do not see ourselves as existing without the resistance: We reside in our homes, plant our fields, play with our children, raise our kids, enjoy the shade of our trees, herd our cattle, climb our hills, sit at our shores, tutor our children, teach our youth, visit our markets, get together with our kinships, host our guests, celebrate our feasts, raise our buildings, chew our food, enjoy our drink, burn the midnight oil of our winters, spend the nights of Ramadan, we converse, travel, and our children become the successors of the Mujahideen. The economy has improved, the crops have increased, the gardens are more, the hospitals have become abundant, the roads paved, houses built and the streets made available. The elderly smiled, the youth optimized, weddings were held, the travelers came back, and the flowers blossomed. And so, to us it is a necessity, even more. If it existed we are to be, and if it were not, then we are not to be. Owing to all this, and much more, we love the Resistance and want its weapons.

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