But remember: they sincerely want peace! A stable, secure Palestinian state with contiguous borders will solve the problem forthwith!
“Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on Al-Quds Day: ‘Israel Must Be Wiped Out Of Existence,'” from MEMRI, October 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):
In a televised address screened at the Sayyed Al-Shuhada complex in Dhahiya on International Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, September 18, 2009, Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah laid down the main tenets of his organization. He stated: 1) that the historical Palestine – from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan – belongs to the Palestinian people and to the entire Muslim nation; 2) that no one has the right to relinquish even a grain of Palestine’s soil or a drop of its waters; 3) that the Israeli entity is an occupying, aggressive, cancerous body that contravenes religious law, and is therefore illegal; 4) that it is forbidden to recognize the Israeli entity or to acknowledge its legitimacy or existence; and 5) that it is forbidden to establish ties or to normalize relations with Israel. Nasrallah went on to state that Israel must cease to exist, that the next war would change the regional map, and that Hizbullah can destroy half of the Israeli army. […]
“We say clearly and honestly and declare that the entire Palestinian territory is a possession of the Palestinian people. It belongs to them and to the entire Ummah. The Zionists own nothing and have no rights in this land. We are ready to discuss issues upon religious, historical, logical, reasonable, and legal basis and in reference to holy books – including the Old Testament which is well known to be adopted by the Jews of this age and earlier ages as to what we know from history.
“We assure that Palestine is the right of this nation and this Ummah and it is not a right for the Zionists at all. During the Holy Month of Ramadhan, Muslims read in the Holy Koran, trying to finish reciting it once and twice and maybe more. They try to study the meanings and lessons the Koran holds within its folds.
“The Holy Koran talks a lot about the people of ‘Israel’ and the prophets of these people – not only the Koran talks about them but so do the other holy books, especially the Torah. Based on the Koran and Islam, we accept that Allah, may He be praised and extolled, promised to Abraham that the Holy Land would be populated with his descendents. We do not deny this: it appears in our Koranic texts…
“However, Abraham’s seed are not Jews nor Zionists – either as a political or religious stream, or as a tribe or a race. It is not only the children of Israel [who are Abraham’s seed]… A great part of the Arabs are [also] Abraham’s descendents. Abraham fathered Ishmael and Isaac. In the Torah, in the New Testament, in Zabour [David’s book of psalms], and in the Koran it is stated that Allah had promised Abraham’s descendents the Holy Land. [But] which ‘seed’?! To the sane among them. To the believers among them. To the pure among them. To the god-fearing among them. To those who went after Abraham – that patriarch and prophet – and followed his religion. [2]
“As for the criminal and murderous limb of Abraham’s progeny, who killed the prophets, spread corruption in the land, and committed atrocities and sins… these were not given any promises to start with… They were not given promises from the outset. It is found in the Old Testament and in history books, that after Moses brought the Israelites across to the blessed land of Palestine, they began to worship the calf and idols, disobeyed God, [and] hurt and conspired against his prophet and his brother Aaron. Consequently, God ordered them out to wander through the desert for 40 years, away from the reaches of their land.
“So, no promises were made to them.