Hezbollah inaugurates museum highlighting its 'resistance' against Israel
Group's leader Hassan Nasrallah tells crowd via video link: One of our most important responsibilities is to foster the history of the resistance.
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Hassan Nasrallah is broadcast on a giant screen from a secret location during the inauguration of the Hezbollah museum on May 21, 2010. |
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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah inaugurated a museum Friday highlighting the achievements of its "resistance" in southern Lebanon against Israel.
The event came as Israel prepares its own set of military drills.
The inauguration of the so-called Jihadist (armed struggle) museum in Mlita, east of the southern port city of Sidon, coincided with preparations for the launch of Israeli defense exercises dubbed "Turning Point 4," planned for Sunday.
Israeli military officials said the military drills are designed to prepare the grounds to confront any rocket strikes against its territories from Lebanon.
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, speaking via video link on a large screen to the crowd of followers gathered at the opening of the museum, said: "We launch together the jihadist tourist site, which we hope will be a correct step for preserving the history of our resistance."
"I want to say that one of our most important responsibilities is to foster the history of the resistance," Nasrallah said.
The museum showcases the various military tactics Hezbollah fighters used against Israeli soldiers during the 22-year occupation of Lebanese territories, which ended in May 2000.
It also shows caves where Hezbollah guerrillas used to hide and monitor Israeli troop movements inside the Lebanese territories during the fighting.
The area around the museum witnessed daily fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli troops during the occupation.
Meanwhile, government security sources in southern Lebanon said Hezbollah has put most of its fighters on alert to monitor the Israeli military drills scheduled for Sunday.
Israel has expressed concerns about weapons it says Hezbollah is getting from Syria and Iran, the movement's main political and military backers.
Last month, Israel accused Syria of providing Scud missiles to Hezbollah, a charge Damascus has denied.
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Arab regimes have a lot to learn from hezbollah, Hamas, and other honest arab freedom fighters. Hezbullah behave rationaly and with self-respect. It has brought dignity and long period of peace to lebanon which used to Israel bullying and agression. If Arab and Muslim peoples could regain their freedosm taken away by corrupt regimes and their western masters, true and equitable peace in the region would come in time for the ebnefit of all ordinary peoples in Palestine: jews, arabs, Christians, and everybody around. What prolong this conflict is the imbalance of power and the bias towards Israel.
Arab regimes have a lot to learn from hezbollah, Hamas, and other honest arab freedom fighters. Hezbullah behave rationaly and with self-respect. It has brought dignity and long period of peace to lebanon which used to Israel bullying and agression. If Arab and Muslim peoples could regain their freedosm taken away by corrupt regimes and their western masters, true and equitable peace in the region would come in time for the ebnefit of all ordinary peoples in Palestine: jews, arabs, Christians, and everybody around. What prolong this conflict is the imbalance of power and the bias towards Israel.
in the King David's Hotel celebrating the bombing by the terrorist organisation Stern Gang? So in what way is is that act different to hezbollah opening a museum celebrating their resistance against foreign occupiers?
Huzbula never won a war against Israel.
the answer is ZERO!!
14 : 1,400 victims
Some of you describe the Man as a looser .if he is so why you bother and comment ..don't you have anything more intelectual to do rather than commenting on person you think he is a rat ... Nassrallah is something different and for the first time the Israeli People resist the Idea of Respecting its Enemy ..Keep Resisting ..The Man is different you like or not ..he means what he says ..if the IDF Bombs lebanon he will bomb your cities ..and the Israelies believe him ...Respect your Enemy because the Arabs who faught you in the past did lack what this man has...and he Has a lot, Knowing that people who supported the Cast Lead Operation with all its consequences including dismembered childreen on Gaza street have really difficulty to Respect anything in Life.
There is nothing special about Nasrallah. He like his predecessors is the long hand of Iran, reaching out for the middle East -- not just Israel. He is a war lord of Syrian and Iranian making. Without them, the Lebanese would discard him immediatly.
No he's not - he's just like any leader whose ego is too big for his boots. As a fellow Lebanese, you are way off the mark regarding 'dismembered' children. Stop making up porkies.
These delusional Arabs are acting like Egyptians who opened a museum dedicated to their great victory of the Yom Kippur war.
Look up all of your (short) life - there will always be a drone up there looking for you
he knows how dangerous terrorist Mossad is that wants to kill him as they love to do with all israeli enemies. Engough is Enough!
Leave the Israeli's alone. From 1948 to the late seventies the Israeli's didn't bother Lebanon and vica versa. Then in the mid to late seventies Fatah started their war against Israel from Southern Lebanon and the Israeli's responded; since then it has been Hezbollah waging war. Try being peaceful and stop launcing rockets and sending killers across the border
How do you know it was Hizbully who sent the rockets? Nah, you don't do you. How easy it is to categorize. Assuming you are an Israeli - and you expect the Lebanese to be peaceful but you don't have to be. What a joke! How about Israel stop violating Lebanese air space for starters.
Perhaps this Islamist museum will help Israel in two ways. First, the propaganda will be so over the top that visitors will recognize the extremism and jihadist vision of the Hizbollah movement. Second, the movement leaders must know that if a new war breaks out, Israel will destroy that museum on the first bombing run. Let us hope, therefore, that this small museum will - even if unintentionally - lead to some good --- despite its terrorist founders' hopes.
just like the holocaust memorial, the lebanese and pals are entitled to their "memories " as for israel destroying it... what a lousy idea. the next one would attract even more attention. and dont let your arrogance get the better of you. embark on another misadventure and see what happens. the world is fed up of israel. if i were ever to visit sidon, id visit,
There is no shame in defending one's homeland against occupiers or aggressors. And it is essential that we in Lebanon always be on the alert for Israeli attacks or attempts at re-occupation of our country.
How many soilders have to be kidnapped and murdered and how many civillians have to suffer rocket attacks before a country says "no more." It appears to have worked so far.
Great "resistance"
where fiction and dreams display the failure to achieve real progress! who said you cant fool a lot of the people a lot of the time????