Challenges for the Resistance Project on Map of International and Regional Balances

"Sheikh Naim Qassem" - As-Safir Newspaper

When we want to draw the challenges, it's normal that we see the scenes where these challenges lie in order to realize their capacities and sizes. To see the level of the challenges and the relative pressure that face us at the practical level, let's begin with "Israel" - the entity in our region. This is an unresolved problem that produces crises, conflicts, assaults, collapses, wars, other intricacies, and all of the harm of the countries that set off their acts on the bases of wars, aggressions, and dominance over the peoples.

Hereupon, this "Israel" is based on three foundations:

• The first: It's an occupying entity.
• The second: This entity seeks dominance and expansion.
• The third: In our region, "Israel" serves arrogance

America wants to rule the world:

The second prospect is represented by the American monism dominance over the world, whereby America wants to rule the world and to dominate it perfectly in pursuit of revitalizing its interests. America is convinced that it has enough capability and power to expand throughout the world. The American administration does not act on the bases of humanitarian causes; it acts upon internal ones that serve to relieve its citizens. Therefore, there is no justice here, but there is preponderant oppression and lustful dominance that America wants to impose through different means at any place it can reach in this world. Now we must notice that America doesn't want a part of this world; instead, it wants everything in our countries - it wants to change the culture so that we think once we have different concepts and, thus, they become our teachers, and we save them a lot of effort by performing the role of their guided students.

Furthermore, they seek dominance over our economic, human, and developmental resources. They also political hegemony over our regimes and rulers, whereby they have commenced to issue legislations and directions which they consider as valid for our region. They have become certain that their democracy is a failure in our region since the Islamic world has a private democracy controlled by the autocratic. This is convenient for these peoples because eventually it produces American interests. All titles are full of definitions, clarifications, and explanations that are completely different from the titles which we know are stable at the humanitarian scale and at the human intellect. This is upon the oppressor's innovation of explanations convenient for his acts and steps. Hence, if you argue him, he will silence you with the power of weapons, and in case you struggle with him, he'll imprison or kill you to debase your reasons. So we face the American monism hegemony over this world.

Since we have found ourselves at an international scene controlled by America and at a regional scene controlled by "Israel" which has been pursuing a location in the region, we - peoples - have had to express our denouncement of this and to express our choices. This is a defensive reaction to assaults and attacks. The Resistance has only been founded to react and defend us upon the spread slackening and the purposes of the region's rulers. The Resistance is a duty, and it is present and ready; otherwise, our countries and peoples would be ruined.

The foundation of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon:

The Resistance was founded for two dimensions: a liberal one and a protective one against assaults. Therefore, we tell those who have argued for a long time and wanted to incite a reaction that now this reaction has a future basis instead of a present one. The martyrs' blood has rooted the Resistance, shifting it from a resistance with liberal purposes to a resistance with protective purposes after the liberation, and so it is continuous to prohibit "Israel" or any other country from invading Lebanon at any future time. At the resistance stages, too many questions were asked concerning the time we stop and the price we ask for; nevertheless, we have been delaying the answer because the period was inappropriate, and the circumstances weren't able to bear the clear and honest answers.

We needed to forsake pro-theorizing to prove to the others a practical application, of which we formulate an unadjusted and undoubted theory. Had we declared - twenty years ago - that we sought a protective resistance, they would have argued a lot against these dreams that we think of. However, the land was freed, and we made two grand achievements represented by the liberation in 2000 and by the resistance of the July Assault in 2006. Once the Resistance made this great victory against "Israel" and proved its validity, it got the right to say that it defends and conquers, that it has created a deterrent balance, that it is a choice - not a plan, and that it is present for defense. All of this is upon the fact that the Resistance has proved its actual presence and is no longer a theory.

Plotting against Lebanon:

As for Lebanon, it lies within two plotted encirclements: the American plot - having international and regional titles - and functioning on the basis of the formation of a New Middle East. The second plot is the "Israeli" one, which seeks this perfect dominance. Perhaps it has been of luck that a third plot has been made, and this could scarcely happen at any other country of the world. This is actually upon the sectarian Lebanese structure, the uniqueness of the Lebanese formation, and the existing equation in the country.

The third plot against Lebanon is a unique one; Lebanon represents an arena for the others' adjustments of the equations and passing them through this arena. How has this arena been embodied, and how has it expressed itself? I'll offer two examples on that: The first is represented by the fact that the different confessions in Lebanon are shielded by different countries in the world. Throughout the recent history, we've experienced the accountability of a different country for every confession.

The second example that expresses Lebanon - the arena, is that the Palestinian resistance has been brought to Lebanon since they've thought that moving it from Palestine to the neighboring countries would cause trouble and crisis upon the presence of the Palestinian revolutionary warmth and the will of the resistance.

The surprise of the Islamic Resistance:

They thought that this arena could achieve their purposes, but once they found that the Palestinian resistance had grown and become a part of the effective equation in Lebanon and the arena, they decided to eradicate it; thus was the 1982 invasion, which aimed at exterminating the Palestinian resistance and consequently putting an end to any resistant will that might be present in the area. Here was the surprise, for - God willing - the Islamic Resistance grew in an unexpected environment, place, and circumstances. The "Israeli" thought that the gravity of the disagreement among the Palestinian organizations and the Southern people would deter the Southerners from the idea of resisting "Israel".

Yet, they weren't aware that the temporary causes with the apparent reasons could not withstand the strategic prospect based on the Islamic creed, profound faith, and inspiration by the great attitude of the Imam of the Rebellious and Liberals - Imam Khomeini (Sacred is his secret). The Islamic Revolution in Iran has created a new dawn with respect to the Islamic and Arabian world. This dawn has begun to make a change after another on the bases of retaining peoples' rights and dignity, overthrowing the tyrannical, exterminating the hegemony and influence of the international arrogance, and putting an end to the capacity and expansion of the Zionist plot.

The existing challenges for the Resistance plan:

It's normal that when we want to draw the challenges, we examine the scene where these challenges lie so that we realize their capacities, gravity, and pressure. In order to see the level of the changes that we encounter at the practical level, let's begin with "Israel", the entity which is the central problem in the region because of its three goals: occupation, dominance, and exploitation of the American arrogance.

Actually, we confront many challenges, the most significant of which are five:

The first is to confront the international coercion and its map concerning the creation of a new Middle East that is convenient with the American and "Israeli" interests. At this point we believe the Resistance is able to confront this, whereby it has to be steadfast and prove its presence and effectiveness. Then, the Resistance becomes more powerful and expands to join the greatest possible number of different social parties. They accuse us of power. Yes, our power in natural, and we must be stronger, for power is the only way to deal with "Israel", and the others must see that we are an insurmountable power; the world won't respect us otherwise. Here I say, yes, the Resistance is strong and shall work on getting stronger so that we face the challenges. Nobody in this world acknowledges the equation of right - but that of power. This represents no point of inquiry; it is a matter of pride.

The second is the least costly: It is the theorizing of political solutions as an alternative. We always hear that political solution is the best convenience for the regional and international equations. Lebanon, Palestine, and the region are facing this political challenge. We believe that the political solutions run by America and the Security Council are unfair solutions.

The third challenge: they speak of the sacrifices made, and they consider that the losses greatly surpass the sacrifices during confrontation. Nevertheless, we consider that losing a thousand martyrs in the July war and a great number of houses - of which various compensations have been made - is way less costly than surrendering.

The fourth challenge: We've been stigmatized as if serving foreign aims. Sometimes they say that we fight for the Arabs, and at other times they say that we struggle for foreign agendas or that we fight for the interests of Iran and Syria. We are self-confident while facing this challenge, for we dare them to offer us any practical example where we have served anyone in the world. We haven't even served ourselves, but we were victorious and defeated "Israel". We liberated the land and became a powerful and glorious resistance. All of these are our accomplishments, but as long as good scents are unrestrained in case they diffuse, our allies in the world, who did not catch the anti-resistance cold, shall benefit from our accomplishments.

The fifth challenge: This is represented by the theory of opposition of the governmental performance with that of the Resistance. This theory has proved to be false and invalid since the best model of governmental presence in harmony with the resistance can be found in Lebanon. The Resistance is present and ready for all challenges and sacrifices, and the government precedes its affairs normally at a time when internal competition takes place, a government is overthrown and another is elected, the army runs the security affairs of the country, and the different administrations perform their responsibilities - as if there were two different issues.

What is gorgeous about this is the coordination between both of these paths, which has exactly made the troika of the army, Resistance, and people prove to be the best for Lebanon.
What's more?

There will be no more retreat. We will refuse to weaken the powerful Lebanon for the sake of anyone. Lebanon and the Resistance have become one solid entity that'll never be divided. This is the history and the present, and such a fact shall be a foundation for the future - God willing.