Raad: Some Lebanese have racist, factional mentality and want to monopolize power
The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad has said that it is “deeply regrettable” that some Lebanese still maintain “their racist and factional mentality, hoping to monopolize power in their country.”
In an op-ed in al-Akhbar newspaper marking Hezbollah’s “Martyr Day”, Raad said those Lebanese parties are “delusionally expecting support from the Zionist occupiers and their tyrannical American backer.”
“This is a suspicious disavowal of the other Lebanese with whom partnership is supposed to be inevitable to preserve Lebanon's unity, sovereignty and stability,” Raad added.
Noting that Hezbollah “has not changed or altered its choice” as to armed struggle against Israel, Raad said that Hezbollah’s fighters are “preparing and accumulating capabilities and expertise to defend their homeland and confront aggression against it.”
He pointed out that the car that was intercepted by a Lebanese security checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar about a month ago was transporting “a load of explosives typically used in the context of the resistance's work, defending the homeland, and protecting it from the Zionist occupation and its hostile, humiliating goals for the Lebanese.”
“However, those who did not learn the lesson during the 1982 invasion, and whose factionalism returned to court their delusions, we found them rushing with suspicious recklessness to exploit this matter. They went too far in backstabbing the resistance and its role, demonizing it with the aim of contributing to achieving what the occupier and its international and regional backers desire,” Raad lamented.
He noted that there are two fundamental, opposing axes in the country.
“Each has its own vision, methodology, and assessment of Lebanon's strategic interests, and each also has its own alliances and presence on the popular and official levels first, and on the regional and international levels second," Raad stated.
"The first axis is the sovereign, resisting axis. As for the other axis, it can be described as the opportunistic, compromising axis,” the top Hezbollah legislator charged.
Addressing the rival camp, Raad said “the Lebanese people's right to resistance is non-negotiable” and “the exclusivity of arms is a sovereign matter to be discussed internally after ending the occupation, within Lebanon's national defense and security strategy."
He accordingly called on the ruling authority to “retract what it agreed to, correct its course, and draw strength from the unity of the national stance to fend off aggressive risks from Lebanon."
Source: Naharnet
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