| The following are excerpts from an interview with Hizbullah's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah. Al-Manar TV aired this interview on March 16, 2005: Hassan Nasrallah: George Bush ignores all this. He ignores the fact that there are Lebanese prisoners in Israeli prisons, that every day Israel violates our sovereignty and attacks our country, and that our country is threatened. He does nothing. He doesn't demand that Israel stop flying its planes [over Lebanon], cease its aggression, and release our prisoners - not to mention the Shab'a Farms. He does nothing. On the contrary – he defends it, and if there is a group in Lebanon that together with the Lebanese army, people, and state, which provides some kind of security or protection – it is required to lay down its arms, or else be declared a terrorist organization. We are willing to remain a terrorist organization for all eternity in the eyes of George Bush, but we are not prepared to give up defending our country, our people, our people's blood, and our honor. |
