Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallahis the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary party Hezbollah since his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces in February 1992. Hezbollah has since been designated a terrorist organization, either wholly or in part, by the United States, European Union and other nations. Nasrallah is often referred to as "al-Sayyid Hassan", the honorific "Sayyid" denoting descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandson Husain ibn Ali...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionRevolutionary
Date of Birth31 August 1960
CountryLebanon
There will be no compromise before we receive an apology.
But with regards to Hezbollah, we are in a state of confrontation with Israeli occupiers and the battle is not over yet. It is still going on.
Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.
Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.
The protests must be pursued everywhere. Bush and Rice should keep quiet and we tell them that we will not forgive those who offend our Prophet.
We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.