Either you are with Al-Quds or you are with the
enemy.
Speech by Sayed Hashem Safi al-Din, Head of the
Executive Office of Hezbollah,
Posted May 28, 2021
Transcript:
In the Name of God,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Praise be to God,
Lord of the Worlds, and prayers & greetings be upon
our Master and Prophet, Abul Qassim Muhammad, and on
his noble and purified family.
Peace be upon you
all, as well as the God's Mercy and Blessings.
God the Most High
says in His Holy Book: "And slacken not in
pursuit of the enemy: if ye are suffering hardships,
they are suffering hardships too; but ye have Hope
from God, while they have none. And God is full of
knowledge and wisdom". (Sura IV, verse 104).
Allow me, in this
blessed gathering in support of Al-Quds (Jerusalem)
and Palestine, to begin by sending all my love,
gratitude and esteem, as well as jihadist greetings,
to the heroic fighters on the battlefield, ready to
(liberate the fortress) of Al-Quds, holding their
ground in the front line of the defense of the
Muslim Community (Umma) in Gaza, and in all the
Palestinians: "Peace be upon you, O heroes! Peace be
upon you, O those who lead this (glorious) struggle
and engrave (in history) a new victory on the path
to the Liberation of Palestine and the holy city of
Al-Quds!"
I also thank all the
children of the noble Palestinian people, who stood
up in defense of their dignity, of the honor of Al-Aqsa
(mosque) and of the honor of every worthy Muslim in
the world! Because the defense of Palestine and Al-Quds
is the defense of the entire Muslim community! I
thank all the Palestinian people, in Gaza, in Al-Quds,
in the West Bank, in the territories (occupied by
Israel) in 1948! I thank all the Arab and Muslim
peoples who stood alongside the Palestinians, and
still demonstrate today as one man in defense of Al-Quds
and in support of this cause! I also thank the soul
of our great leader, Hajj Qassem Soleimani, who,
together with his brother-in-arms Hajj Imad
Moghniyeh (cadre of Hezbollah assassinated in 2008),
designed and completed the mentality of the
(victorious) rockets & missiles equation on the
battlefield, and collaborated with all the sincere
children of Palestine, Lebanon and all the
Resistance Axis to make rockets & missiles a
(victorious) equation, building a new equation in
defense of holy Al-Quds, in Gaza and throughout
Palestine.
My dear (brothers and
sisters), I will say a few words. After showing our
solidarity and presence alongside the Palestinian
Resistance —and indeed our action (for Palestine)
goes well beyond the expression of solidarity: O my
brothers of the Palestinian Resistance, we and you
are (engaged) in the same struggle, on the same
front, for the same cause. Your fight is our fight,
your martyrs are our martyrs, your cause is our
cause, your priorities are our priorities, your
rockets & missiles are our rockets & missiles, and
with the grace of God, your victory and ours will be
one, if God the Most High wills it.
What I want to say
clearly is that firstly, the battle that is being
fought today in the heart of Palestine is different
from all previous battles, whether it is the ones
that we ourselves (Hezbollah) fought in Lebanon
against the Zionist enemy, or those led by our dear
brothers of the Palestinian Resistance inside
Palestine. Why? Because it is the battle of the
defense of Al-Quds and its identity, the defense of
Al-Quds and its dignity, the defense of Al-Quds and
its history. For Al-Quds embodies the dignity of the
Muslim community, the dignity of (cultural and
religious) affiliation, the dignity of history. And
this battle is distinguished from other battles in
that it is the battle of the entire Muslim
community. Therefore, there can be no question of
being neutral there: either you are with Al-Quds or
you are with the enemy. There is no place for
political, opportunist, sectarian or other alibis,
nor for states, nor for peoples, nor for societies.
Second, this battle
for the defense of Al-Quds made all Palestine one,
just like it unified the Arab-Muslim peoples, making
it clear to us and everyone else that when the
Muslim community comes together & unites for its
just causes, and takes the path of Resistance and
Justice, then it appears quite grandiose, as it is
today, while our enemy seems small and contemptible,
as it is the case today.
O my dear ones,
during all the past decades, Israel, and alongside
it the United States and the West, as well as a few
weak (leaders) from our Muslim community, have
worked tirelessly to divide us, to tear us apart, to
foment crises and chaos in our societies and our
countries, in order to strengthen their grip on
Al-Quds and on Palestine, and erase all hope for the
Palestinians; they strived in order to keep certain
political, cultural and other layers gripped by
disputes for throne, power or kingship, while they
themselves (our enemies) advance their pawns in
their evil plan to Judaize all of Palestine and end
the cause of Al-Quds .
The answer to these
decades of spreading seditions and turf wars in our
countries, our societies and our region, and
especially the last 10 years (with the creation of
ISIS), through which they have endeavored to lead a
large part of our peoples to civil wars and
seditions, the United States pouring money and
support into this (takfiri) project, as well as some
Arab countries unfortunately, which joined them out
of interest; but today, the response to these last
10 years has come, the answer to all these decades
during which our enemies have worked to divide our
Muslim Community: this answer was to come to the aid
of the Greatest Prophet, peace and blessings of God
be upon him and his family, and this help came from
the Holy Al-Quds! Today the page of dislocations,
divisions and seditions has ended, so that we all
find ourselves on a new basis, and let's open a new
page whose title is "Al-Quds, Unity and Resistance"!
This is one of the important consequences so far, as
we are still in the midst of the battle, in the
midst of the continuing armed confrontation.
That is why, by your
side, O children of Al-Quds, O children of
Palestine, O Mujahedin in Gaza, the West Bank and
the (territories occupied in) 1948, with every child
and woman killed in Gaza by the aggression of the
oppressor, with all the crimes perpetrated by the
enemy, what we say today from this place, the
southern suburbs of Beirut (Dahiyeh), the Dahiyeh of
nobility and Resistance, we yell "We are all the
Resistance! Yes, yes to the Resistance! No and a
thousand times no to seditions and dislocation (of
our ranks), and a thousand times no to normalization
(of relations with Israel)!"
Third, in this
battle, it is now clear that Israel is (already)
defeated. I will express myself more lightly. Israel
is politically defeated to the point of (total)
confusion and stalemate in its choices. It is
defeated politically, it is defeated militarily, it
is defeated at the popular and societal level,
whether by the pressure of the missiles & rockets in
its skies and above its head, or at the level of the
(Palestinian) people's uprising in the West Bank and
the occupied territories in 1948 to the point where
the earth trembles under (the whole Zionist entity).
Israel is therefore under (unprecedented and
unbearable) pressure from above and below. What will
Netanyahu do?
And to that is added
their hybris! Sometimes and even often, arrogance
prompts people to make choices that flout even the
most basic of common sense (and lead them to ruin).
Today, "their hearts are divided" (Quran, s. 59, v.
14) and they speak nothing but nonsense. And I'm
telling you right now: Israel is just repeating
(what happened) in 2006, as if it had learned
nothing (from its failures). In the past, Israel
mocked the people of our region by saying that they
did not read (and were just ignorant, illiterate
people). I in turn tell you this: "O Netanyahu, O
Kochavi (Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army), O
(Israeli) military and political leaders, you do not
read or understand anything, and even if you read
the recommendations of the Winograd Commission
(responsible for studying and remedying the causes
of the Israeli failure in 2006), it appears that you
have not understood them and that you have not
implemented them. Israel is just repeating the same
experience, the same stupidity. In 2006, Halutz said
after 3 days “The battle is over! We have destroyed
Hezbollah's military infrastructure and crushed its
military capacity!" After 3 days, he thought the war
was over (possible reference to the first 3 days of
intense bombardment of all pre-established targets,
or to 3 days of a temporary ceasefire scrupulously
respected by Hezbollah, to the point that Israel
believed the Resistance had exhausted its rockets)!
(Hezbollah's) rockets continued to strike Israel,
until the end, and Israel was defeated! The result
of the war (of 2006) was a humiliating defeat (for
Israel)!
Today, after two or
three days (of shelling), the Israeli enemy claimed
they had struck 500 military targets in Gaza and
liquidated the military infrastructure of Hamas,
Islamic Jihad and other Resistance factions. But if
it is true, where are the rockets coming from (as
they continue to strike Israel in the hundreds every
day)? If you destroyed the military infrastructure,
then go inside Gaza! The Resistance promises you a
massacre if you dare to enter Gaza!
Today, Netanyahu
repeats Olmert's experiment, and Kochavi repeats
Halutz's experiment (in 2006). That's a good thing
for us, it doesn't bother us at all! This is a proof
that for 15 years they have not understood anything,
learned nothing! But in the face of this, in the
face of Israel's impotence, I guarantee you, O
people of the Resistance in Lebanon, that in
Palestine and throughout the Axis of Resistance, we
have for our part innovative minds who plan, think,
take the initiative, move forward, brimming with
ever more capacity, courage and development! If we,
in Lebanon, had a certain capacity in 2006, I assure
you that today, our power is much greater still, at
all levels: weapons, rockets & missiles, manpower,
all our different capacities have been increased
tenfold! In Lebanon, our power has increased
exponentially! And in Gaza too, the Resistance's
capacities have increased enormously compared to
2014. They have been multiplied! How is it possible
? Through planning, knowledge, faith, more action
and determination! We are facing an enemy who,
despite his (almost infinite) military and
destructive capabilities, is powerless! While on the
other side, our Resistance in Gaza is capable of
holding the enemy in check, and all our peoples in
the region can count on it! This is the situation
today and it will be (even worse for the enemy)
tomorrow and every day in Gaza, throughout
(occupied) Palestine, in Lebanon and throughout the
Resistance Axis!
And I tell you O
Zionists, the result of all this is that you are in
a downward curve, a phase of (inevitable) decline,
while we, the Resistance, are in an upward phase!
And for us to finish (Israel), only one thing is
needed: I will not give a deadline, but when the
conditions are met for the Great War of Liberation,
you will find all the peoples of our region,
everywhere in the Middle East, from Yemen to Iran,
passing by Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon, not
to mention the others (forces and countries) who
will join the ranks of the Axis of the Resistance in
the near future, you will find us all together,
(attacking you) at once, within a single Axis,
united against this enemy to erase him from
existence! It will undoubtedly happen, with the
Grace of God the Most High!
Fourth, today Israel
is in a dead end. Those who follow (Israeli) news
and statements, Netanyahu's (vain) threats, realize
that they are being taken by the throat. What can
they do today? All Netanyahu can do is resort to
airpower and bomb residential buildings. Here,
around us, all these buildings were destroyed (in
2006). Did this alter the Resistance's resolve? In
no case (quite the contrary)! The buildings have
been rebuilt. And with the grace of God, whatever is
destroyed in Gaza will be rebuilt. But what remains
invincible is the defense of dignity and holy
places! It cannot be destroyed, shaken or even
touched, and on the contrary, each building
destroyed only strengthens the Resistance's
determination and furthers the will of the
combatants, who become all the more determined to
continue on the way of jihad (for the Liberation)!
It is also part of
the stupid acts of the Zionists. Can destroying
houses constitute a victory, in the military sense?
This is cowardice, abjection! Killing children,
women and civilians is all they can do, and there is
nothing more they can do. In the military sense, the
battle has already been won (by the Resistance in
Gaza). All Israel can do to this day is kill
civilians. What is preventing or dissuading it from
doing so? The so-called international community? The
United States, the West, (diplomatic) contacts?
Never! What dissuades and deters them are rockets &
missiles, strength and endurance, perseverance (of
the Resistance). This is our experience in Lebanon.
We are not
determining what may come into play in the
(deterrence) equation. It is the right and the
business of the Palestinian Resistance, whose
leaders have enough wisdom, courage, knowledge and
will to fight and establish the terms of the
equation of Al-Quds and the protection of Al-Quds.
The Resistance and the Palestinian people have
announced it from day one: this is not about ranting
or throwing (empty) threats. The cause today is
Al-Quds, its protection, the protection of its
inhabitants, and the guarantee given to this
protection. This is what the Palestinian people and
the Palestinian People's Resistance announced. They
are the ones who determine how to establish this
equation. But based on our experience, if there's
one thing we can say to Netanyahu —let him take it
as an advice, a prediction, whatever he wants— it's
that he'd better hurry to recognize the results of
the new equation imposed today by the Resistance and
the missiles from Gaza. The longer he delays, the
higher the price he will be forced to pay. This is
what our experience teaches us, and if he hurries to
recognize (the new situation), I see things going in
a different direction.
Fifth and last point,
O my dear ones, O worthy people of Palestine: know
that the entire Muslim Community (Umma) is at your
side. O young men of the West Bank, O young men and
women of the territories of 1948, our hopes rest on
you, and the future belongs to you. We are all with
you, as you have seen over the past few days. We
have lost a martyr of whom we are proud, the martyr
Mohammad Tahan (killed) at the (Lebanese-Israeli)
border. It is a point of pride for us, and a pledge
of our solidarity and stance, of this unity of
destiny and journey (between Palestine, Hezbollah
and the entire Resistance Axis).
The voices of the
people are rising in support for you. The Arab and
Muslim peoples are with you. Do not be too saddened
by some cowardly and treacherous (Arab leaders) who
at no time in their lives have been with you, Al-Quds,
or Palestine. Forget about those people. You, O
young people of Palestine, you have the possibility
of shaping this victory, and you are doing it and
shaping this (radiant) future (of Liberation), and
you will shape it. We will always be with you in the
unity of the cause, the unity of the front and of
the fight, this front whose ultimate goal is Al-Quds
and Palestine, and which is the front of the entire
Muslim community.
We are with you with
all that God the Most High has given us in terms of
strength and capacities (which we put entirely at
your service). But we in Hezbollah, as we stand by
your side today, we are (impatiently) waiting for
the day when, as I just said, without announcing
when it will happen because it would not be wise
—even in the case we'd know, we wouldn't say it— we
(impatiently) look forward to that day when we will
fight by your side, shoulder to shoulder, on all the
battlefields of Palestine to eradicate this
cancerous tumor. We have been promised that (this
usurping entity) would be eradicated, making Israel
disappear from existence. This day is approaching,
it is approaching (fast) and it is inevitable.
May the people of
Gaza be patient and bear its martyrs and sacrifices,
standing strong in the fight against enemies, in
everything you sacrifice, for victory comes at a
price, no matter how high it is. But this victory
will be noble and grandiose, for our entire Muslim
community and not just for Palestine! We will always
cry out, every day, with Al-Quds and with Palestine,
“O Quds, we are coming, we are coming, we are
coming!"
Peace be upon you, as well as the Mercy of God.
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