With Pride and Honor, Lebanon Celebrates Martyrs Day
Source: Al-Manar TV, 11-11-2008
November 11 is not a usual day at all...
It's the Martyr's Day, the day in which Lebanese remember their martyrs as well as the sacrifices they paid along the path of freedom and Resistance...
Year after year, the occasion becomes even more symbolic and profound as an opportunity to remember, pay tribute to those who have drawn our path with their pure blood, and pledge to continue the same path until achieving complete victory...
The 2008 martyr's day is the first that comes to the Islamic Resistance in the absence of its top commander Imad Moghnieh (Hajj Redwan) who was martyred on February 13, 2008, after a life full of heroic achievements against the Zionist entity and its agents.
Thus, Hajj Redwan marks the main difference and symbolism of this year's Martyr's Day. However, the day marks an opportunity to pay tribute to 1600 resistance leaders, fighters and heroes who raised the Resistance flag for more than 26 years since the creation of the Resistance movement.
Nevertheless, the day remains an opportunity to recall four of the Resistance great leaders, four commanders whose martyrdoms were in themselves a launching of a new era in the Resistance various stages, the stages that combine all together in one major and essential feature: the love of life!
The beginning was with martyr Ahmad Kassir, the one who opened the martyrdom legend. With him, a new concept for martyrdom was born, a concept that any Resistance was not used to: a young man transforms himself into a detonator targeting the center of the "Israeli" military governor. Even more, the identity of the martyr was not declared for three full years, while the details of the remarkable operation remained and are still a topic of controversy and disputes within the "Israeli" intelligence circles.
Kassir's martyrdom, with its full symbolism, was just the beginning. Indeed, it has pushed all resistance fighters to raise the Resistance flag and vow not to drop it under any circumstances. The ensign, afterwards, has moved from one hand to another, with the hands of the leaders at the front. It was first carried by "the Sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance", Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was the first martyr among the Resistance founders, followed by Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi while returning home after taking part in marking the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb's martyrdom. Minutes before his martyrdom, Sayyed Moussawi addressed the enemy, saying "Kill us; our people will become more and more conscious!"
The martyrs' blood was never a sign of frustration or collapse. On the contrary, it has always been destined to draw the long path of resistance and jihad. Victories then came one after another, causing to the "Israeli" enemy the defeats it has never seen before.
... And the year 1997 came to define another stage in the Resistance life. Hadi Hassan Nasrallah, the Resistance leader's son, joined the procession of martyrs while defending with his brothers in the Islamic Resistance the sovereignty of his country... But Hadi Hassan Nasrallah's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum, allowing it to enter a national framework that set up the outbreak of the Lebanese brigade to fight the occupation.
Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghnieh joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who made us proud and granted us the defeat of our enemy.
But, and again for sure, the martyrdom of Hajj Redwan, the two victories' leader, as Sayyed Nasrallah called him, will not go unmarked. Hajj Redwan's martyrdom actually declared the surging of a new era in the Resistance work, an era that would be uncovered only during the big surprise's day!
And the procession of martyrs continues...
November 11 is not a usual day at all...
It's the Martyr's Day, the day in which Lebanese remember their martyrs as well as the sacrifices they paid along the path of freedom and Resistance...
Year after year, the occasion becomes even more symbolic and profound as an opportunity to remember, pay tribute to those who have drawn our path with their pure blood, and pledge to continue the same path until achieving complete victory...
The 2008 martyr's day is the first that comes to the Islamic Resistance in the absence of its top commander Imad Moghnieh (Hajj Redwan) who was martyred on February 13, 2008, after a life full of heroic achievements against the Zionist entity and its agents.
Thus, Hajj Redwan marks the main difference and symbolism of this year's Martyr's Day. However, the day marks an opportunity to pay tribute to 1600 resistance leaders, fighters and heroes who raised the Resistance flag for more than 26 years since the creation of the Resistance movement.
Nevertheless, the day remains an opportunity to recall four of the Resistance great leaders, four commanders whose martyrdoms were in themselves a launching of a new era in the Resistance various stages, the stages that combine all together in one major and essential feature: the love of life!
The beginning was with martyr Ahmad Kassir, the one who opened the martyrdom legend. With him, a new concept for martyrdom was born, a concept that any Resistance was not used to: a young man transforms himself into a detonator targeting the center of the "Israeli" military governor. Even more, the identity of the martyr was not declared for three full years, while the details of the remarkable operation remained and are still a topic of controversy and disputes within the "Israeli" intelligence circles.
Kassir's martyrdom, with its full symbolism, was just the beginning. Indeed, it has pushed all resistance fighters to raise the Resistance flag and vow not to drop it under any circumstances. The ensign, afterwards, has moved from one hand to another, with the hands of the leaders at the front. It was first carried by "the Sheikh of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance", Sheikh Ragheb Harb, who was the first martyr among the Resistance founders, followed by Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Abbas Moussawi while returning home after taking part in marking the eighth anniversary of Sheikh Harb's martyrdom. Minutes before his martyrdom, Sayyed Moussawi addressed the enemy, saying "Kill us; our people will become more and more conscious!"
The martyrs' blood was never a sign of frustration or collapse. On the contrary, it has always been destined to draw the long path of resistance and jihad. Victories then came one after another, causing to the "Israeli" enemy the defeats it has never seen before.
... And the year 1997 came to define another stage in the Resistance life. Hadi Hassan Nasrallah, the Resistance leader's son, joined the procession of martyrs while defending with his brothers in the Islamic Resistance the sovereignty of his country... But Hadi Hassan Nasrallah's martyrdom had given the resistance movement momentum, allowing it to enter a national framework that set up the outbreak of the Lebanese brigade to fight the occupation.
Last but for sure, not least, top commander Imad Moghnieh joined his brothers and all the Islamic resistance martyrs who made us proud and granted us the defeat of our enemy.
But, and again for sure, the martyrdom of Hajj Redwan, the two victories' leader, as Sayyed Nasrallah called him, will not go unmarked. Hajj Redwan's martyrdom actually declared the surging of a new era in the Resistance work, an era that would be uncovered only during the big surprise's day!
And the procession of martyrs continues...
