Nasrallah Warns Israel against Stealing Lebanon's Maritime Resources
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Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned Israel against stealing Lebanon’s maritime resources, vowing that his party will retaliate against any attack on Lebanon’s future oil and gas installations.
“I confidently say to all the countries, governments and companies that will submit tenders in order to start oil excavation that Lebanon is capable of protecting these companies and oil and gas installations,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech on the fifth anniversary of the July 2006 war.
“We warn the Israelis against carrying out any act that may lead to stealing Lebanon’s resources out of its territorial waters,” he said in a speech transmitted via video link to thousands of supporters massed in Hizbullah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Nasrallah also called on the Lebanese to support their government in “this major national challenge,” noting that oil and gas excavation “would benefit all the Lebanese.”
“I tell the friends and the foes that Lebanon will rely on all the elements of strength in order to regain its natural resources, and the most important element is the army-people-Resistance formula,” Hizbullah number one added.
Addressing the issue of the July War, Nasrallah thanked “all of those who stood by Lebanon and helped it achieve victory.”
“Among the most important factors that contributed to this victory were determination, confidence, hope, faith and people’s steadfastness … The steadfastness of the resistance fighters was the most important factor and it resembled a real miracle: how could thousands of mujahidin fight night and day all through 33 days in all villages in the face of battalions and tanks, as the sky rained down fire on them.”
Nasrallah said Israel had started the war in an “arrogant and overconfident manner, but in the face of the steadfastness of Lebanon and the resistance fighters its confidence quickly turned into confusion, weakness, uncertainty and a crisis of confidence among the Israeli leaders, government and people.”
“This war, as the Israelis themselves admit, has left dangerous repercussions on the (Israeli) entity and its political present and future,” he noted.
Nasrallah said Israel has been staging military drills in a bid to “find a military solution to the problem of the falling rockets, which this time will fall beyond Haifa, and far beyond Haifa.”
Hizbullah’s leader stressed that “the quiet along the border was imposed by the Resistance through the balance of deterrence and the balance of terror.”
“The Resistance had imposed the calm as its objective is not war, but rather to defend its land and the dignity of its people,” Nasrallah noted.
He went on to say that, since the end of the war, “major efforts have been exerted to question the Resistance and distort its image, and millions of dollars were spent for that purpose.”
“The Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s accusations against Hizbullah members and the fabricated media reports about the party are part of these efforts,” Nasrallah charged.
Addressing Hizbullah’s supporters, Nasrallah said: “Our faith in God and in our determination cannot be shaken and I reassure you that today the Resistance is stronger than ever in terms of its consolidation, cadres and capabilities.”
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has said the maritime border as proposed by Israel posed a threat to regional security.
The proposed frontier cuts through Lebanon's economic zone, Mansour has said, noting that Lebanon would "turn to the United Nations."
The feud over offshore gas fields has deepened since Israel's cabinet on July 12 approved a map of the country's proposed maritime borders with Lebanon to be submitted for a U.N. opinion.
The proposed map lays out maritime borders that conflict significantly with those suggested by Lebanon in its own submission to the United Nations.
Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil has said Lebanon will not give up its maritime rights, and accused Israel of "violations of (Lebanese) waters, territory and airspace, and today our oil rights."
Israel has for months been moving to develop several large offshore natural gas fields, some which are shared with Cyprus, that it hopes could help it to become an energy exporter.
But its development plans have stirred controversy with Lebanon, which argues the gas fields lie inside its territorial waters.
Israel does not have officially demarcated maritime borders with Lebanon, and the two countries remain technically at war.
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26 July 2011, 22:01
Nasrallah: We call on the Lebanese people to support the government in this major national challenge, because (oil and gas) excavation would benefit all the Lebanese. I tell the friends and the foes that Lebanon will rely on all the elements of strength in order to regain its natural resources, and the most important element is the army-people-Resistance formula.
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26 July 2011, 21:56
Nasrallah: We warn the Israelis against carrying out any act that may lead to stealing Lebanon’s resources out of its territorial waters.
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26 July 2011, 21:55
Nasrallah: I can confidently say that Lebanon is capable of protecting its oil and gas installations, because we will avenge any attack on these installations and they know that Lebanon is capable of doing that.
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26 July 2011, 21:44
Nasrallah: The Israelis have said that they are preparing “surprises” for the Lebanese. This is a failed attempt to imitate us. We will not be surprised. You are the ones who were surprised and I tell you that your generals will only taste defeat in Lebanon and the commander of your northern front has four bullets in his chest after he was ambushed by the Islamic Resistance fighters.
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26 July 2011, 21:39
Nasrallah: Our faith in God and in our determination cannot be shaken and I reassure you that today the Resistance is stronger than ever in terms of its consolidation, cadres and capabilities.
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26 July 2011, 21:37
Nasrallah: Since the end of the war, major efforts have been exerted to question the Resistance and distort its image, and millions of dollars were spent for that purpose. The STL’s accusations against Hizbullah members and the fabricated articles about the party are part of these efforts.
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26 July 2011, 21:34
Nasrallah: The quiet along the border was imposed by the Resistance through the balance of deterrence and the balance of terror. The Israelis who are speaking of calm have forgotten that they are the occupiers who have been stealing the natural resources. The Resistance had imposed the calm as its objective is not war, but rather to defend its land and the dignity of its people.
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26 July 2011, 21:30
Nasrallah: In the beginning, the Israelis had admitted their failure, but recently they have started to search for positive results that might have emerged after the July War, or what they call the Second Lebanon War, through lies and exaggeration. For example, Shimon Peres, the eldest of the Zionists, has claimed that two achievement were made in the July War: forcing me to enter the bunker and preserving calm on the northern borders of occupied Palestine.
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26 July 2011, 21:22
Nasrallah: Israel has been staging military drills in a bid to find a military solution to the problem of the falling rockets, which this time will fall beyond Haifa, and far beyond Haifa.
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26 July 2011, 21:18
Nasrallah: This war, as the Israelis themselves admit, has left dangerous repercussions on the (Israeli) entity and its political present and future. But the most important result of the July War was the crisis of confidence among the occupation’s army, political leaders and people. Meanwhile, the public opinion’s confidence in the resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and the Arab world had risen.
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26 July 2011, 21:16
Nasrallah: Among the most important factors that contributed to this victory were determination, confidence, hope, faith and people’s steadfastness. The steadfastness of the resistance fighters was the most important factor and it resembled a real miracle: how could thousands of mujahidin fight night and day all through 33 days in all villages in the face of battalions and tanks, as the sky rained down fire on them.
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26 July 2011, 21:14
Nasrallah: The Israeli enemy started its war in an arrogant and overconfident manner, but in the face of the steadfastness of Lebanon and the resistance fighters its confidence quickly turned into confusion, weakness, uncertainty and a crisis of confidence among the Israeli leaders, government and people.
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26 July 2011, 21:13
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech on the 5th anniversary of the July War: I thank all of those who stood by Lebanon and helped it achieve victory.
26 July 2011, 21:53
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What kind of Delusional VICTORY is this Criminal talking about ? Cost Lebanon 1,200 Innocent people and $12 Billion Dollars in Infrastructure and ISRAEL kicking their ASS to kingdom come and they still call it a VICTORY. What kind of FANTASY world are they living in ? Can they not understand the results of the 5 July which they still call VICTORY ? To ISRAEL, YES it was a VICTORY, but to Dear Lebanon & its TRUE citizens it was a huge LOSS. DO you not see how you keep lying to your followers who cannot see reality. Stop calling it a VICTORY, it's ISRAEL's VICTORY and NOT Lebanon's. Enough lies already.
26 July 2011, 21:54
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why does he let some of his forehead hair peak through his turban? it looks funny.
26 July 2011, 22:13
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Nasrallah: But the most important result of the July War was the crisis of confidence among the occupation’s army, political leaders and people. Meanwhile, the public opinion’s confidence in the resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and the Arab world had risen.
What about the crisis of confidence the war among the lebanese or that does not count in your opinion?
Public opinion in the resistance had risen? Which planet do u live on? Get off your high horse and face reality. 70% of the lebanese population take anti vomit pills when they see you on TV, and the arab population discovered your deceit and double standards!
26 July 2011, 22:27
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If this was a "Victory" one is affraid to see what a defeat would have looked like!
26 July 2011, 23:22
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sounds like N.asrallah is having a schizophrenic break-down, someone send him a psychiatrist
26 July 2011, 23:43
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It is unreal to think that someone who at least knew of the political murders under preparation from the beginning, (Surely Badreddine and the gang didn' t do it behind his back, even if their reporting line was largely in Teheran!), is posing himself as a Mourshed of the republic, or as a president-consort, and pretending, as a nation caring father, to protect with his military might the nation' s property! No Mr Hassan Nasrallah, you are the biggest threat to us, yours arms are, your agenda is! The greatest dangers posed to our natural resources, and the theft of the revenues generated, if they ever reach the stage of exploitation. That will come from you, and you associates, more than anyone, since you' re accountable to no one but your weapons! Stop using Israel to create a pseudo national consensus that doesn' t exist to escape the STL. It' s a futile exercice . We don' t need you, we don' t need your arms.We want a capable army, a strong state, an active effective diplomacy!!
26 July 2011, 23:47
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It is stupid to go to war to save our maritime resources. Are these resources worth the losses that we will incure every time Nassrallah wins?
Sure he gets " almal alnazeef" from his Iranian masters but what the rest of us get.
lebanon with a strong government that respects international laws will be able to resolve diplomatically any conflict over maritime resources. No need for you to stick your fat turban in there.
26 July 2011, 23:48
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If anything these Public Verbal diaherrea attacks by this criminal cheap Iranian tool, to try to shove yet more lies and dellusions down his followers throats, hoping that by repeating his garbage it would somehow become reality. Of Course his BS will never be bought by any free Lebanese or Syrian for that matter, who would rather see this rat hang for all his crimes than to hear him throw up more BS through video link deep down from the "apparent" safety of his rat hole thus contributing to the noise pollution that Lebanon could definitely use less of.... No amount of denial can ever save this criminal from punishment for the endless crimes he has committed for the sake of his Filthy Iranian regime masters.
27 July 2011, 00:54
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So now Israel has started this war? I thought you started it by kidnapping and killing Israeli soldiers. Are we having memory problems?
27 July 2011, 01:09
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N,ASS,RAT,LA stop brain wash people and start wash your self, you stink i can even smell you throug my laptop!!
27 July 2011, 02:17
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He is looking stupider by the minute....
What drugs is he on????
27 July 2011, 02:54
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if you call over one and half billion dollars in damages and about 1300 people lost their life a victory . sure have it your way
27 July 2011, 14:15
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Hizbullah’s leader stressed that “the quiet along the border was imposed by the Resistance through the balance of deterrence and the balance of terror."
Interestingly that is also how Hezbollah imposed itself on this government.
27 July 2011, 16:54
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In the equation:"Army - People - resistance"...I am from the People, and I am fed up with "war talks", "war solutions","war lessons" and "war for the pleasure of war"....the People want to live in peace, can you understand? The People don't want you anymore, and when the People stops supporting the resistance there is no more "resistance"!!!!
27 July 2011, 20:53
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Poor Lebanon.
A country with an army and a sovereign government, allowing an armed terror group to dictate what will be Lebanon's future.
We are fed up with his threats. So he has missiles and rockets and he is able to shoot them to Israel.
So, will Israel remain calm after any provocation ? you know well who will pay the price, like in many wars, the civilian women and children will pay for it with their lives.
Lebanon will become a desert.
I;m not speaking who is stronger or weaker as in wars both sides a loosing , question is who will pay bigger price.
For years Lebanon been attacked due to non responsible groups whom dreaming of liquidating Israel.
The clown from Hezballa can't threaten Israel, if there is a dispute this must be solved with negotiations sitting to the table and not by a terror criminals and drug dealers .
28 July 2011, 01:17
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Hezbol are funded by Mossad to murder Lebanese and make problems in Lebanon
28 July 2011, 23:22
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It is very clear that all you posting negative comments are not Lebanese. Please some one tell me how did Israel emerge victorious??the rebuilding of the infrastructure didn't put Lebanon in debt that wasn't already created by hariri n co?? the main purpose of the 2006 war was to eliminate HA so that the mafia M14 can rule Lebanon and sell us as as slaves to US/Israel/Saudi and did that happen? since HA is still here and stronger than ever gives then that gives them the right to call the war victorious or whatever they want to call it so get over it.
29 July 2011, 01:18
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Ex M14 Supporter,
I am glad you ended up stopping your support to M14, they already have a major problem with their collective IQ ratio. With yours Apes won't need a super potion to rule this planet.
So in your head the country was already in debt because of Hariri Co. ? You genius why are we in debt? Because everytime this country is rebuilt someone bombs it for a random reason and we end up rebuilding. This is not free, never free. When your country is bombed not only is your debt created by the rebuild but by the loss of revenue from business, and tourism.
Bear in mind that yes their is also HUGE corruption issue in Lebanon, but that crosses borders and is on both sides of the equation M8 and M14. In general, the Hariri Co. if was/is corrupt it is the only "Co." that actually helped this country or tried to, but people like you are helpless.
29 July 2011, 03:38
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My fellow lebanese and zionists posting above, in wars there are objectives to be accomplished to determine your victory. Israel's were to disarm HA, push them above nahr-al-litani and demolish HA. As to these objectives, not one has been accomplished thus pointing to a HA victory. Now, SHN is lashing at the zionists if they attempt to steal Lebanon's resources and we have people on this commentary whoare not happy about it. Just a reminder, 500 million dollars have been invested by the USA to discriminate HA's image in Lebanon, makes me only wonder how much has been invested in this website and bloggers. Shame on you.
29 July 2011, 04:13
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Yes, Leb4all Israel did not achieve it's objectives, and HA survived. What a shallow victory that is, but how about the Lebanese people? It's an HA victory for HA not for the Lebanese people. Under no circumstances did they approve of Israeli soldiers being kidnapped and killed nor were they informed of the grandscheme of things. An idiot would acknowledge that was not a good time to test Israel's nerves especially after back than it was raiding Haifa.
Perhaps HA survived the onslaught, and Israel did not achieve it's objectives. However, the biggest loser was not Israel, it was Lebanon.
