Fadlallah says Hezbollah will 'meet every positive gesture with a positive one'
Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah stressed Sunday that his party is an "advocate of dialogue and engages in it with everyone who cares for our country, even from a position of disagreement, because dialogue takes place between those who differ in order to agree on how to approach internal files."
He added that such a dialogue should follow "rules based on the National Accord Document (Taif Agreement) and the requirements of the Lebanese Constitution and laws."
Fadlallah noted that Hezbollah does not seek rivalries and polemics, but rather internal understandings, lamenting that "there are parties that insist on infringing upon the rights of our people and inciting against their existence, beliefs, sanctities, the blood of their martyrs, and their partnership in the homeland."
"Such incitement leads to a counterproductive result, pushing our people to hold even more firmly to their resistance, to protect the sacrifices of their youth, and to safeguard the blood of their martyrs," Fadlallah warned.
He stressed that Hezbollah will "meet every positive gesture with a positive one, and every step toward us with a corresponding step, stemming from our concern for the country and our readiness to cooperate with every sincere person who wants to save it, even from a position of political disagreement."
"Therefore, we are ready to cooperate and reach an understanding with everyone keen on stability and civil peace for the sake of our country, and to navigate this phase in which it is unclear where the region is headed."
He added that such a cooperation would "aim to preserve Lebanon on the basis of protecting its sovereignty and relying on its elements of strength, foremost among which is the Resistance."
"There are those who try to portray weapons as the problem, ignoring the enemy and its actions, and forgetting that the Resistance is the result of the existence of occupation and today represents a necessary choice to defend Lebanon and liberate its land," Fadlallah went on to say.
He pointed out that "incitement against the army, the Resistance, national unity, and civil peace falls within the context of attempts to revive dreams of sectarian statelets."
He concluded by saying: "New equations are being drawn in the region, and we must benefit from them, especially in light of the Iranian insistence on making Lebanon the first item in any agreement with the United States."
Source: Naharnet
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