Posted on 07/19/2012 3:35:10 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In speech marking Second Lebanon War's 6th anniversary, Hezbollah leader says 'shahids' killed in Damascus blast were 'our comrades in struggle against Israeli enemy'
"Israel is rejoicing today because the pillars of the Syrian Army were hit. That's what Israel wants - that Syria won't have a strong army, only a police force," Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah told supporters in Beirut Wednesday via video feed.
Nasrallah, who addressed the crowd to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, pointed out the ties between his organization and the Syrian regime and praised the top Syrian officials who were killed in Wednesday's blast in Damascus for their support of the Palestinians.
He mentioned Damscus' support of Hezbollah during the war. "In the war, the most valuable weapons we had in our possession were from Syria. The missiles we used in the Second Lebanon War were made in Syria. And it's not only in Lebanon but in Gaza as well." Where did these missiles come from? The Saudi regime? The Egyptian regime? These missiles are from Syria."
Nasrallah referred directly to the top Syrian officials who were killed, Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and his deputy Assef Shawkat. "When Gaza had nothing to eat Syria sent missiles and food. Rajha and Shawkat (symbolize) the Syria which helped the resistance in Palestine. While other Arab regimes blocked (the transfer) of food and donations to Gaza, it was Syria that sent food and weapons to Gaza and took a chance. This is the Syria of Bashar Assad, this is the Syria of the shahid leaders. We denounce this blow which only serves the interests of the enemy."
"These shahids were our comrades in arms, in the resistance and in our struggle against the Israeli enemy. The Syrian army has many leaders which can shatter their enemies' hopes," claimed Nasrallah, while calling for political negotiations. "The solution can only come from dialogue, and we need to hurry up to get it going," the sheikh said.
Nasrallah pointed an accusatory finger towards the US and Arab countries. "The Syrian army is the only army in the region not receiving training or weapons from America. There was an interest to destroy this army. America, the West and its pawns in the Arab world used the just demands of the Syrian people and threw Syria into war," he claimed.
Nasrallah's speech was broadcast on giant screens during a Hezbollah gathering in a southern suburb of Beirut. "If it be Allah's will, you will remember the 33 days of fighting," he said, referring to the war.
Nasrallah warned that Hezbollah has a surprise in store should Israel choose to attack first in any future conflict. "We're preparing a big surprise for Israel, but I won't say what it is because then it won't be a surprise. We know that Israel is constantly gathering intelligence about us and, like in previous wars, it's preparing to land the initial blow."
"All Israelis - the generals, the military, the politicians are still under the shock of their surprising defeat (during the war). The Israelis keep on conducting symposiums, write articles and hold discussions with present and past leaders - and they're all talking about the defeat," the Shiite group's leader said.
He quoted Meir Dagan, former director of the Mossad, who told former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the war was "a national disaster."
"That's good enough for us," said Nasrallah, and claimed that during the war the "resistance" was prepared to bomb Tel Aviv.
Was it 19 Syrian Alawites who piloted 3 Boeing passenger jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Are those nasty Alawites blowing up GI’s in Afghanistan? In helping the Sunni Arabs exterminate their minority populations (whether from an ethnic or religious standpoint), we are sowing the wind. We will reap the whirlwind.
Baathist Syria supported the Baathist-led insurgency against US troops in Iraq. Assad has been getting help from Russia and Iran to kill American soldiers in Iraq and now his number has come up.
So when Syrian Sunni Arabs take over, establish an Islamist dictatorship and explode a nuke in DC, we'll just write that off as the cost of getting rid of Assad? The difference between adults and children is being able to take the long view. Assad tried to evict us from Iraq because he wanted to discourage us from invading Syria. The world's 1b Sunnis want to kill us all. By and large, Assad did not bother us as long as we did not bother him. Sunnis killed 3000 Americans on our own soil on 9/11 despite our record of providing humanitarian aid to Sunnis in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and rescuing the troglodyte Sunni population in the Gulf states from Saddam's grubby paws in 1991.
What do you expect us to do, help Assad massacre and exterminate his own people like the Neo-Soviet Kremlin is doing?
Assad is fighting a rebellion, not engaging in deliberate massacres. Killing 10,000 civilians (the commonly-accepted death toll) can be accomplished in a matter of days. The Japanese killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese during the Nanking Massacre over a period of weeks. Hafez Assad killed 10,000 Syrians over the course of a week in Hama, back in the 80's. 10,000 dead over 16 months is actually lower than the rate at which Iraqi civilians were being killed during our occupation of Iraq. (That rate peaked at around 30K a year in 2006 & 2007). In other words, it's about what you'd expect for a guerrilla war.
Besides, what do we care if Sunnis are getting slaughtered? These troglodytes are our enemies and have been the enemies of Christendom for 1300 years. Their neighbors would not miss them if they were teleported to another galaxy. Would Thailand, India, the Philippines and China miss their Sunni terrorists? At the risk of sounding calloused, maybe Sunni should move to a more welcoming locale, like Saudi Arabia, whence their ancestors emerged to spread terror and death around the globe.
Syria is simply not worth going to war with a united Russia and China. The US will lose that war badly. Quite frankly, the US leadership during this Syrian debacle has been one of the worse examples of diplomacy in US and perhaps world diplomatic history. Total disregard for the safe keeping of thousands of chemical and biological WMD’s.
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