“Resistance” to what? Is Israel occupying Lebanon?
“There is a difference between arms which only serve invasions, occupations and aggressions, such as those of the United States and its ally Israel … and the arms of a resistance which defends, protects, and liberates,” said Fadlallah. “Liberates,” that is, by imposing Sharia. An update on this story. “Hezbollah slams US accusations, vows to keep arming,” from AFP, April 28 (thanks to all who sent this in):
BEIRUT — Hezbollah has shot back at US accusations it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons and vowed to continue to build its artillery, in comments published on Wednesday.
“Our choice was and remains to secure all the arms of resistance that we can,” Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told the Arabic-language newspaper As-Safir, which is close to the Shiite militant group.
The daily ran a front-page headline that read “Washington and Tel Aviv push missile hoax to brink of war” and quoted Fadlallah as saying Hezbollah’s arms did not compare to the “armament” and “crimes” of the United States and its ally Israel.
Hezbollah’s arms do not compare to “the level of armament of the United States, which it used in its crimes against peoples around the world, from Hiroshima to the more than 100,000 martyrs killed in Iraq and the tens of thousands killed in Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan,” Fadlallah said.
“There is a difference between arms which only serve invasions, occupations and aggressions, such as those of the United States and its ally Israel … and the arms of a resistance which defends, protects, and liberates,” he added….