
Monday, 22 August 2016
israel's checkpoints, Security or humiliation?

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GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen in northern Gaza Strip and detained two fishermen on Sunday.
The spokesman for the Union of Agricultural Work Committees Zakariya Bakr told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire at fishing boats off the northern coast of Gaza Strip and detained Sharif al-Sultan and Muhammad al-Sultan.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into the reports.Israeli forces regularly detain Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Gaza working within the fishing zone, generally for alleged security reasons.According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Israeli forces detained 71 fishermen and confiscated 22 fishing boats throughout 2015.
The Israeli army also regularly open fires on Palestinian fishermen and farmers along the border areas, despite a ceasefire agreement that ended the 2014 war.The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sectors of the blockaded coastal enclave.
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MAJOR EVENTS THAT WILL SHAPE SYRIA IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
“Exclusive to SyrPer” by Canthama
Aleppo: After liberating most of the 1070 apartment complex (80-90%) which was held by terrorists for a few days, the Syrian forces and allies have made a few attempts to get into the artillery base, but, it seems those were diversions. The most significant event came from the cement factory and the advance toward Al-Shurfa village, right at the center of the corridor which the terrorists had hoped would open a supply route into eastern Aleppo. A vital hill, Umm Al-Qar’- Sanawbaraat, was taken by the Tiger Forces some 48 hours ago and after many counter- attacks by the terrorists, they were not able to reverse this achievement. This may seem like a small step, but this hill controls theRamouseh-Khan Touman road, providing a ‘de facto’ fire control over it and the resealing of the corridor.
A few hours ago, the Tiger Forces managed to take another small hill where the SyriaTel is located. This is southwest of Umm Al-Qar’. Those two hills will create the opportunity to storm two more sites: the small village of Qaabliyya and Tal Al-Mahrooqaat.

Map credited to @PetoLucem
The flank positioning will allow the Tiger Force to launch a decisive attack on Al-Shurfa, Al-‘Amaara and Al-Qarraassi villages. That would close the corridor and prepare a larger force to advance on a much protected ground toward M5, leaving the artillery base and Al-Raamoosa industrial district to be cleared in due course; very much the same as Al-Layramoon factories and Bani Zayd.
Some points to consider on Western Aleppo:
- The terrorists have been able to counter attack, though the intensity has been very much below the major offensive 3 weeks ago, which may indicate that the non stop air attacks by SAAF and RuAF are taking a severe toll on the many terrorists factions in this battlefield.
- The open corridor was never used to transport large convoys into eastern Aleppo. It was under constant bombing although a very few vehicles and goods may have crossed.
- The constant air attacks on the terrorists’ supply lines have been effective, reducing their reinforcement, lowering their morale and destroying vital ammo depots all over Idlib Province.
The massive allied forces gathering in the past 3 weeks, the probing attacks as well as the recent flanking positioning (1070 apartment complex and Umm Al-Qara`/SyriaTel hills), are strong indications that a major offensive is brewing. It is usually expected that to prep for a major offensive, air attacks will increase in frequency and magnitude, such that this may be a clear indication for the timing of this new development.
Hasaka: The situation in al Hasaka city continues to be very volatile, now in its 4th day. Some important factors to be considered as the fight inside the town continues in anticipation of a peaceful solution:
- It is getting more obvious, as time passes, that this provocation has direct links to the Turkish-US struggle related to the supposed coup attempt against the Turkish regime. The timing of it, right after the Turkish-Iranian high level meeting and the joint declaration on the main steps toward a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria, has most likely sparked NATO to push the Asayish, PYD military police, to provoke a conflict in Al-Hasaka.
- It seems a possible alignment between Russia-Syria-Iran-Turkey will clearly be in conflict with NATO’s invasion in northern Syria and the use of locals to promote their objectives.
- Syrian Government reaction was swift, both with the directives to the NDF organization to fight back but with the support of SAAF that shifted the initial balance of the attacks.
- There is no clear indication on the ground that large SDF/YPG or even SAA forces are fighting at the moment; both organizations are, so far, using artillery fire to support the fighting inside the town where mostly Asayish and NDF are fighting. This could change if the conflict escalates even further toward a full war.
- There is a clear, maybe unforeseen, risk for large numbers of local Arab fighters deserting the SDF/Asayish ranks. In fact, there are reports of groups shifting allegiance to NDF in the past few days with increasing frequency and magnitude.
The two maps below show the changes since August 19th to the 21st. So far the NDF has gained ground but fighting continues all over and territory could shift quickly.


Maps credited to @Lawrence1918x
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israel’s war on Palestine’s food supplies: Fishermen detained off Gaza coast

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GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen in northern Gaza Strip and detained two fishermen on Sunday.
The spokesman for the Union of Agricultural Work Committees Zakariya Bakr told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire at fishing boats off the northern coast of Gaza Strip and detained Sharif al-Sultan and Muhammad al-Sultan.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into the reports.Israeli forces regularly detain Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Gaza working within the fishing zone, generally for alleged security reasons.According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Israeli forces detained 71 fishermen and confiscated 22 fishing boats throughout 2015.
The Israeli army also regularly open fires on Palestinian fishermen and farmers along the border areas, despite a ceasefire agreement that ended the 2014 war.The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sectors of the blockaded coastal enclave.
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Sunday, 21 August 2016
George Schwartz Soros - The Oligarch Who Owns The Left
By Gilad Atzmon
An email leaked recently by Wikileaks reveals that in 2011, Jewish oligarch George Schwartz Soros gave step by step instructions to US Secretary of State Hillary Clintonon how to handle unrest in Albania.
Soros even nominated three candidates whom he believed to “have strong connections to the Balkans.”
Not surprisingly, several days after the email was sent to Clinton, the EU sent one of Soros’ nominees to meet Albanian leaders in Tirana to try to mediate an end to the unrest.
Soros’ email sheds light on who really sets the tone for the West. Clearly it isn’t our so-called ‘democratically elected’ politicians. Instead, it is a small cadre ofoligarchs, people like Soros, Goldman and Sachs. People who are driven by mammonism – Capitalism that is based on trade as opposed to production. The mammonites are interested in the pursuit of mammon (wealth) purely for the sake of mammon.
Soros is, without doubt, the most illustrious mammonite of our time. The Jewish billionaire is the “man who broke the Bank of England,” an adventure that made him more than $1 billion in one day in September of 1992. In 2002, a Paris court found Soros guilty of using inside information to profit from a 1988 takeover deal of Bank Societe Generale. In the days leading to the Brexit vote the speculative capitalist used The Guardian’s pages in an attempt to manipulate the Brits into following his advice on Brexit. Apparently the Brits didn’t heed Soros’ wisdom. And, so far, it seems that Soros’ predictions of doom were far fetched, verging on phantasmic. Still open is the question of why the Guardian provided a platform for the speculative capitalist oligarch. Is it a news outlet or an extension ofMammonism’s long arm?
The Jewish oligarch has developed a huge infrastructure that assists him in pursuing his speculative capitalist agenda. Soros realised many decades ago that it is very easy to buy leftist institutions and activists. Since the 1980s, Soros has used his Open Society Institute to invest a fraction of his shekels in some ‘left leaning’ political groups and NGOs worldwide. Soros funds NGOs, activists and Left institutions that are willing to subscribe to his agenda. They support a cosmopolitan philosophy and are dedicated to Soros’ anti nationalist mantra. The outcome has been devastating. Instead of uniting working people, Soros funded ‘left’ organisations divide workers into sectarian groups defined by gender, sex orientation and skin colour.
Many of those who support Palestinian causes were shocked to discover that Soros funded the BDS movement although he was simultaneously invested in Israeli industry and Israeli factories operating in the West Bank such as Soda Stream.
Soros also bankrolls J Street, the American Jewish lobby group that controls the opposition to the ultra Zionist AIPAC. Looking at the huge list of Soros’ supported organisations reveals that the light Zionist oligarch supports some good causes that are particularly good for the Jews and Soros himself.
Soros seems to believe in the synagogueisation ofsociety. He supports the breaking of society into biologically oriented tribes: e.g., Blacks, Women, LGBT, Lesbians. He has invested millions in dividing the working class. Divide and rule is what it is.
Traces of his destructive Open society Institute can be identified in Iran’s failed Velvet Revolution, anti Assad NGO activity in Syria , behind anti Putin intense activism and of course the Gazi Park events in Turkey. These so called ‘civilian’ and ‘popular’ uprises have at least one common denominator. They attempt to destabilise regimes that oppose Zio-cons as well as the mammonite world order.
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Crown Heights 25 Years Later
By Eve Mykytyn
On August 19, 1991, a car driven by Yosef Lifsh, was part of a three car motorcade escorting Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, then the leader of the Lubavitcher sect of Hasidic Judaism.
The motorcade passed through Crown Heights, New York led by police officers in an unmarked car with police lights.
Lifsh’s car reached the corner of President Street and Utica Ave, and ran through (depending on whom you believe) either a yellow or red light. The car was hit and smashed into a building on President Street, knocking down a 600 pound stone pillar. Two seven year old cousins who were playing on the sidewalk were pinned by the car; Gavin died instantly and Angela ultimately survived but sustained severe injury.
Lifsh claimed that he immediately jumped out of the car to try to help the children. However, the EMT drivers who arrived three minutes after the accident found Lifsh in the car surrounded by angry neighborhood residents. Gavin was taken by ambulance to the hospital. While workers were still trying to free Angela from under the car, a decision was made to protect Lifsh from the crowd and send him out of the area in an emergency vehicle. Angela was eventually freed and sent to the hospital.
Accounts vary, but the crowd was angry about the hurt children and the perceived preferential treatment afforded Lifsh. The situation devolved into a riot. About three hours after the accident, a group of young black men surrounded 29-year-old Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Jewish student.
Rosenbaum was stabbed and severely beaten by the group and he died a few hours later. Police claimed that before he was placed in an ambulance, Rosenbaum identified 16-year-old Lemrick Nelson, Jr. as his assailant in a ‘line up.’ Nelson was charged with murder and acquitted. Later, after the Lubavitch community mounted a huge political push, he was retried and convicted in federal court of violating Rosenbaum’s civil rights.
The riots continued for three days and eventually caused about one million dollars of damage. Tensions in Crown Heights between black and Jewish residents have been a cause of concern both before and after the riots.
In what is certainly very strong hyperbole, Edward Shapiro, a historian at Brandeis University, called the riot “the most serious anti-Semitic incident in American history.” Others, only slightly less hysterical, viewed the incident as a pogrom. Mark Winston Griffith, 53, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, a community organizing group, notes that a quarter century later, even what the riots should be called remains an issue. The black community, outraged over the disproportionate power of the Lubavitch community calls it “an uprising,” Griffith said.
Were the Crown Heights riots evidence of anti-Semitism, a visceral reaction to the traffic death of a child, or a protest over the status of a disproportionately empowered community?
Time magazine described the situation at the time,
“Behind the violence lay decades of uneasy coexistence between local blacks and members of the Lubavitcher sect, who established their world headquarters in Crown Heights in 1940.
Lubavitcher Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky claims that
”Crown Heights is a model community of integration where whites and blacks live in peace together.”
But blacks describe a different atmosphere.
”The Hasidim set up an apartheid situation in Crown Heights,” says Dr. Vernal Cave, a black dermatologist who has lived in the area for 36 years. Cave claims that the Lubavitchers have long received preferential treatment from police and city authorities.”
But 25 years later, the Forward has good news for us. Crown Heights has changed. Although blacks and other New Yorkers have clashed with the Hasidim over issues likedress, bike riding on Saturday and the like and occasionally been forced to cede their own rights to the streets and, although blacks and others believe that the Lubavitch wield disproportionate political power, at least: “Today there is less open hostility between blacks and Jews, …though still a high degree of separation, misunderstanding and suspicion.”
In any case, the Hasidim, who make up about 25% of Crown Height’s population, have a new enemy: Orthodox Jews. The problem? Non Hasidic Orthodox Jews have placed an eruv (a string surrounding a neighborhood allowing the pious to carry their possessions on a holiday) in Crown Heights.
The Lubavitch Beit Din (rabbinical court) declared the eruv not kosher (something about the distance between poles supporting the wire). Beit din member Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Halevy Segal called the erection of the eruv, “the devastation of the Shabbat in our honorable neighborhood.”
The eruv was completed by the end of May, 2016. It has been regularly vandalized ever since. “It was broken in 20 places,” said Naftali Hanau, a Crown Heights resident who advocated for the new eruv. “This was clearly vandalized.”
Since Lubavitch Jews can simply ignore the existence of the eruv, it’s unclear why anyone feels the need to vandalize the string. Observers have suggested that Beit Din members might fear that some Lubavitchers will begin using the eruv, despite their opposition. It’s also possible that those rabbis might feel that having any type of Jew, Lubavitch or not, use the eruv lowers the standard of Jewish observance in the neighborhood.
May I suggest that after so many years of political and racial tension in Crown Heights, the battle over the eruv at least provides some comic relief to nonbelievers.
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Corbyn Dropped a Truth Bomb on the Warmongering Elite
By Carlyn Harvey
“The Canary” – On 18 August, the real reason why the establishment believes Jeremy Corbyn is so “dangerous” was made perfectly clear. Responding to a question about defence at a Labour leadership debate, the incumbent refused to justify military action by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), instead vowing to make efforts to create “a world where we don’t need to go to war”.
For millions of citizens around the world, this is great news. But for those intent on maintaining the politics of power and the lucrative industries that support that, Corbyn’s vision is nothing short of a disaster.
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At the debate, Corbyn and fellow candidate Owen Smith were asked a question about Russia:
How would you as Prime Minister react to a violation by Vladimir Putin of the sovereignty of a fellow Nato state?
Corbyn responded:
You’d obviously try to avoid that happening in the first place. You would build up a good dialogue with Russia to ask them, support them in respecting borders. We would try to introduce a demilitarisation between Russia and Ukraine, and all the other countries down on the border between Russia and Eastern Europe.
What we cannot allow is a series of continuous buildups of troops on both sides which can only lead to great danger in the future. It’s beginning to look awfully like Cold War politics at the present time. We’ve got to engage with Russia, engage with demilitarisation in that area, in order to try and avoid that danger happening.
NATO was formed in 1949 in the wake of WWII. Initially, its primary focus was Russia, and the creation of an alliance capable of taking on the red ‘bear’ where necessary. But once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was dissolved, tensions with Russia faded and NATO, determined to justify its continued existence, moved on to othertargets.
Now, that Cold War tension has returned and, as Corbyn notes, there is a “continuous buildup of troops” along the Russian border. On 10 February, for example, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that:
Nato Defence Ministers agreed on an enhanced forward presence in the eastern part of our Alliance.
This is NATO-speak for a decision to amass a military presence in six countries bordering Russia. The UK is contributing five warships and a considerable number of troops to the military contingent. The pledge followed an announcement by US President Barack Obama to quadruple the superpower’s military spending in Europe, to the tune of $3.4bn.
Around the same time, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter explained that the current “security environment” is “dramatically different” to that of the last couple of decades. For the last 25 years, Carter noted, US ‘defence’ has largely focused on insurgent forces, like the Taliban and other extremist groups. But now, the US is gearing up for “a return to great-power competition” with “high-end enemies” like Russia and China.
NATO is the frontline of this “great-power competition”.
Play by the rules, or get out of the game
As most of the big players on both sides of the ‘competition’ have stockpiles of nuclear weapons, any escalation of the tensions could indeed “lead to great danger in the future”. This is a sentiment that Putin himself shared when he recently spoke to foreign journalists:
Your people in turn do not feel a sense of the impending danger – this is what worries me. How do you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction?
Corbyn suggests that “dialogue”, “demilitarisation”, and ‘engagement’ are the appropriate actions to take to ensure no violations of sovereignty occur in the first place. He advocates prevention of hostilities rather than a cure once they’ve begun.
But such tactics do not seem to factor much in NATO’s playbook. In fact, leaked emails from recently retired NATO Supreme Commander Philip Breedlove showed he was consciously plotting ways to overcome President Obama’s reluctance to escalate military tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
And Stoltenberg, in his announcement regarding the buildup of troops on the Russian border, made pains to stress the NATO principle that “an attack against one Ally is an attack against all Allies, and that the Alliance as a whole will respond”.
It is this principle, that all members should be willing to act militarily if one member is under threat, that was the subject of the Labour leadership debate question. And Smith dutifully responded in line with NATO policy:
We would have to come to the aid of a fellow member of Nato, that’s the nature of the Nato accord. That would be the job of Britain in the event of a fellow Nato member being invaded obviously. But it would be calamitous, and we must never see that happen.
We must work diplomatically to make sure that Russian aggression, and I think that it has been nothing less than that, expansionism and militaristic aggression, by Putin in recent years is contained.
Quite how ‘diplomacy’ will be successful if only the aggression of Russia is under discussion is difficult to imagine. And if Smith truly believes “we must never see” invasions and a NATO military response, prevention must surely be the only way to achieve that.
An explosive business
Pushed further on whether he would take military action “if he had to”, Corbynconcluded:
I don’t wish to go to war, what I want to do is achieve a world where we don’t need to go to war, where there is no need for it. That can be done.
After decades of endless military interventions that have left much of the Middle East in ruins, thrust Wahhabi terrorism onto a global stage, and eroded trust in communities throughout the western hemisphere, it’s unsurprising that the audience erupted with applause at his suggestion.
But the establishment doesn’t like the idea one bit. Lord West, a former Labour security minister and Royal Navy head, said the comments were “absolutely dreadful”. Labour MP Wes Streeting, meanwhile, claimed they were “a gross betrayal of Labour’s internationalist values”.
It could of course be considered thoroughly ‘internationalist’ to advocate for diplomatic solutions to avoid all conflict – not only for one’s allies, but for the global citizens who would suffer in the event of a war. But obviously not in the circles Streeting moves in.
Some may also consider it ‘absolutely dreadful’ not to attempt to influence NATO, the only military alliance the UK has direct involvement with, to exhaust peaceful solutions before considering military action.
And the mainstream media can vent all they wish about how this is a “step too far” for Corbyn, and resurrect Clement Attlee’s founding of the alliance in its condemnation of Corbyn.
But today’s world is a very different place from the one in which Attlee negotiated. Following the ceaseless interventions of recent years, our military impulses have to be curtailed along with those of others if there is to be any prospect of world peace.
The real geopolitical question now is not who’s going to be in control of the world, but who’s going to save it.
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US Withdraws Staff from Saudi Dedicated for Yemen Planning: Report
The US military has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning, US officials told Reuters.
Fewer than five US service people are now assigned full-time to the “Joint Combined Planning Cell,” which was established last year to coordinate U.S. support, including air-to-air refueling of coalition jets and limited intelligence-sharing, Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a US Navy spokesman in Bahrain, told Reuters.
That is down from a peak of about 45 staff members who were dedicated to the effort full-time in Riyadh and elsewhere, he said.
The June staff withdrawal, which US officials say followed a lull in air strikes in Yemen earlier this year, reduces Washington’s day-to-day involvement in advising a campaign that has come under increasing scrutiny for causing civilian casualties.
A Pentagon statement issued after Reuters disclosed the withdrawal acknowledged that the JCPC, as originally conceived, had been “largely shelved” and that ongoing support was limited, despite renewed fighting this summer.
“The cooperation that we’ve extended to Saudi Arabia since the conflict escalated again is modest and it is not a blank check,” Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said in a statement.
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the reduced staffing was not due to the growing international outcry over civilian casualties in the 16-month civil war that has killed more than 6,500 people in Yemen, about half of them civilians.
But the Pentagon, in some of its strongest language yet, also acknowledged concerns about the conflict, which has brought Yemen close to famine and cost more than $14 billion in damage to infrastructure and economic losses.
“Even as we assist the Saudis regarding their territorial integrity, it does not mean that we will refrain from expressing our concern about the war in Yemen and how it has been waged,” Stump said.
“In our discussions with the Saudi-led coalition, we have pressed the need to minimize civilian casualties.”
Riyadh Plays down Move
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, declined to confirm details about the positioning of US military personnel, but played down such moves.
“The relationship between the kingdom and the US is a strategic one. If true, this move reflects something at a tactical level,” Asseri told Reuters.
“The US may move its assets, but that doesn’t have any impact on the bilateral relationship between the countries.”
Since the campaign began, the US military has conducted an average of two refueling sorties every day and provided limited intelligence support to the coalition. That assistance continues, Reuters cited officials as saying.
Source: Agencies
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Saturday, 20 August 2016
S. Nasrallah: Hezbollah Will Emerge from Syria War as an International Force
In an interview with Al-Manar TV channel, Sayyed Nasrallah said that during 2006 war, popular resistance fought one of the most powerful armies in the world and achieved the victory which violates all the natural laws, adding that Holy God supported the mujahidin according to His Promise.
His eminence noted that a large part of the Lebanese government and a number of Arab and regional countries sided with the Zionist entity during 2006 war, providing it with the political, media and military support in order to crush the Resistance.
The military force used by the Zionist entity against Hezbollah in 2006 was larger than that ‘Israel’ employed during all the Arab-Israeli wars, the Resistance leader added.
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that after the Israeli defeat in 2000 marked the first Arab victory which was morally and militarily pure, adding that some Lebanese factions felt sad for the Israeli loss and repeated the same experience in 2006.
“Some Lebanese and Arab sides bet on the Zionist victory in 2006.”
Hezbollah leader said that a European embassy contacted Hezbollah during July’s war to assert that only the Lebanese government wanted the Zionist enemy to continue its war against Lebanon in order to defeat the Resistance.
“In 2006 Israel agreed on holding the ceasefire agreement, but some Lebanese factions and Arab regimes insisted on disarming Hezbollah before ending the war. Do they consider Israel as an enemy? Does the dignity of the Umma and al-Quds mean anything to them? They do have different calculations.”
Those parties and regimes even deny via their media outlets that Hezbollah defeated Israel in 2006 despite the Zionist acknowledgement in this concern, Sayyed Nasrallah said.
His eminence added that Hezbollah has been always preparing to face any Zionist aggression, noting the Syrian military support to the Resistance.
Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that Hezbollah fighters performed their divine duty and the people were confident that the Resistance would emerge victorious, yet that the Zionist enemy was frightened and confused since the beginning of the war, which marked Holy God’s capability.
Sayyed Nasrallah clarified that the political system in Lebanon is corrupted adding that the ruling class is corrupted and its components have looted the country’s fortunes and desperately preserve their authority positions.
Sayyed Nasrallah said that after July’s war and unlike the victorious parties in the world, Hezbollah did not seek power in Lebanon for that may have caused a civil war which is worse than the political corruption.
His eminence pointed out that the media outlets supported by the Gulf and the West distort Hezbollah image by circulating that the Hezbollah is a group of drug traffickers and money launderers and that the Secretary General’s son died at a night club, stressing that the party cares exclusively about the Resurrection Day when the real truths will be displayed.
Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated Hezbollah’s commitment to the national unity and forming a unified government with all the Lebanese factions, including al-Mustaqbal movement because nations cannot be built amid hatred.
Sayyed Nasrallah stated that the most remarkable scene during July’s war was the people’s steadfastness, tranquility and political awareness which made them fantastically go back to their villages on August 14, 2006, which formed one of the basic features of the victory.
“Nowadays, the southerners enjoy a peace and prosperity, thanks to the Resistance sacrifices, while the Zionists are building fences along the Lebanese-Palestinian border for their fear of Hezbollah.”
People challenged all the threats and courageously went back to their villages, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who added that Holy God helped them to frustrate the scheme of keeping them displaced.
Sayyed Nasrallah confirmed that after July’s war, he visited the South and Bekaa, adding that he enjoys a normal life as he receives political delegations and friends, and stressing that he is not hiding at a basement.
His eminence noted that Hezbollah commanders and their families as well as all people faced July’s war patiently, which assisted them to defeat the enemy.
The Zionist estimations indicate that any Israeli war against Hezbollah would be adventurous and that the striking Iran is not beneficial, so the decision to attack Syria was taken, according to Sayyed Nasrallah.
“July war was aimed at eliminating the resistance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, and eventually isolating Iran,” Nasrallah pointed out.
Sayyed Nasrallah stated that Syria has been targeted for it used to provide Hezbollah with homemade missiles, adopted the Resistance option, and rejected to abandon the Palestinian cause.
“What is going on in Syria is a form of revenge and a continuation of July’s war and President Assad is one of the main obstacles that face the US scheme, the New Middle East.”
Sayyed Nasrallah considered that the speech of Donald Trump, the US candidate for presidency, embarrassed President Barack Obama and obliged him to eradicate ISIL, which lets the axis of controls the region.
Sayyed Nasrallah said that the Lebanese army stuck to its patriotic creed during 2006 war, sacrificed scores of its soldiers and supported the Resistance in the battlefield, but that PM Fad Siniora wanted the army to disarm and clash with Hezbollah.
“Siniora ordered the Army to confiscate the trucks which used to move Hezbollah missiles from Bekaa to the South, revealing that the party’s leadership, President Lahoud and Speaker Berri threatened the PM to undo his orders.”
“The Lebanese army has all the weaponry, equipment and human conditions to defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens, nut the political decision of the government is not resolute.”
“The other party claims that the Lebanese army can confront the Zionist aggression but says that it cannot defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens.
Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the Lebanese army can defeat the terrorists in Arsal barrens, but that Nusra Front has allies in the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah leader said that the takfiri scheme cannot survive in the region for it is rejected by all groups, adding that no one can live under ISIL ruling.
Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized that Hezbollah has gained a vast military experience from Syria war, which frightens the Zionists and will help the Resistance in its Galilee operation.
“If Hezbollah emerged from 2006 war a regional force, it will emerge from Syria crisis an international force.”
Sayyed Nasrallah considered that if Turkey blocks its border with Syria, most of the crisis would be ended as the military and human support to the terrorists would be stopped, adding the pro-terrorism states plan to get rid of all the gunmen after the end of their missions.
“The former Saudi security official Bandar bin Sultan visited Moscow to convince Putin to send terrorists from Chechnya and Dagestan to fight the Syrian army in order to kill them there.”
Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that the deal according to which the Zionist entity was established includes the Arab kings who are charged with protecting Israel, adding that the Arab militaries have been always powerful, except for the regimes which ban fighting the Zionists.
“If chaos pervades in the region and the Arab regimes collapse, people will certainly wipe out the Zionist entity, liberate Palestine and pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
Sayyed Nasrallah confirmed the solid relations with the Palestinian resistance factions, saying that Palestine is grander than all the other causes.
“I think that the resistance factions cannot accept the normalization of the relations with the Zionist entity.”
About the Islamic unity, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the situation is not tragic, noting that what is going on in Syria is not a Sunni-Shiite confrontation as scores of those who fight for the Army are Sunnis.
“Who liberated Fallujah are the Sunni tribal forces. But the Gulf media has sought classifying the battle as sectarian.”
Sayyed Nasrallah considered that Syria crisis pervades awareness, exposes the mean and prepares the Umma for the major victory of liberating Palestine.
Israel is facing a strategic dilemma after defeating its scheme, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who expected that the Zionists flee the Palestine as they did when they escaped from Lebanon in 2000.
“The US and Zionist schemes will fail to involve the Arab people in confronting the Resistance, which will eradicate the Zionist enemy.”
Tackling media siege imposed on Al-Manar TV, Sayyed Nasrallah vowed to break it, asserting Hezbollah channel will keep performing its major duties via all the technological means, eliminating the possibility of renaming the outlet due to its symbolic and historical position.
Source: Al Manar TV
| 19-08-2016 – 22:55 Last updated 20-08-2016 – 04:14 |
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