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A POEM CALLED NASRALLAH’S HEZBULLAH

[A tributary war song in honor of Sayyid Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and all the Hezbullah Mujahideen [1]]

 

 

Prologue

 

Our beloved poet has written:

 

“Why the war? Leave small details to a future Plutarch; this is another round of battle for Palestine. Supported and supplied by their captive empire, the US, the Jews had all the weapons, all the ammunition, all the diplomatic support, when hubris-drunk they drove into disarmed and starved Gaza to kill off its last resisters and impose the Yoke of Zion. Their invasion was prepared by a yearlong siege and incessant shelling; they were cock-sure they can devour Gaza at will. And indeed, all kept mum: the Egyptians traded the glory of the Ramadan war for greenbacks, sons of Hejaz and Nejd were too busy serving at the oil pump, and the princes of the Gulf cared but for their falcons.  The Jews felt secure as they stooped to kill off Gaza: who will disturb the lion of Judah roaring at his prey? And a tiny force from the Mount Lebanon said: we will.  They attacked the all-powerful Jews; thus the hobbit pierced the sinew of Nazgul when he stooped to kill. The Israeli army roused from his prey turned north and lashed with all its might at the Hezbullah fighters.  But they stood fast.” [2]

 

1.

 

And yesterday, on August third, I heard –

 

That Israeli planes are dropping from the air leaflets over Beirut

Urging its population to evacuate immediately,

For the city will soon be razed from the surface of the earth.

 

The teacher said:

 

“Hezbullah’s deeds deserve to be immortalised by poets”.

 

I say, the poet must need, have a deed to be needed, or kneaded -

Like the dough of good fresh bread whose sweet smell rises

In the air all over Senegal before the dawn appears light crimson

Once more above the blackness of the night –

 

You are that prayed for deed, and need, that precedes The Twelfth Imam’s

Glorious and luminous appearance upon the terror of this firma –

Cries of my children now dying in Lebanon,

The wailing of my mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers in Lebanon,

The destitution from destruction and unrighteous slaughter

Of innocent multitudes now in Lebanon,

 

And this was your measure of measured measurement Israel?

 

I saw the horrid pictorial sequence of your obvious intention,

Your objective - to amputate the feet of an entire living nation,

To cut out its heart and soul – an ethnic and ethic cleansing that came,

Just after the announcement was made to leave before the bombing began,

And as they obeyed, you bombed everything until there was nothing left to leave.

 

The finest stitch of hypocritical dress, you are still a mess Israel,

You are still the same wicked harlot you were when my brother Ezekiel

Wrote you his prophetic poem, his song of blood, sweat, and tears,

The vivacious and vicious need of your historical and masochistic yearning

To desperately burn in the depths of karmic hell, a measured swelling,

Your insatiable greed of world domination; in the meantime -

All nations of the world are presently invited to attend the present

“Mono-Jewish Cultural Festival” held on land and in the skies over Lebanon.

 

IT IS NOW RAINING MOLTEN FIRE IN THE SKIES OF LEBANON,

IT IS NOW RAINING MOLTON FIRE ON THE LAND OF LEBANON,

IT IS NOW RAINING MOLTON FIRE ON THE INNOCENT OF LEBANON,

IT IS NOW RAINING MOLTEN FIRE ON THE FLESH OF LEBANON,

 

2.

 

AND NOW A NONABEL LEBANON IS PRESENTLY UNDER HISTORICAL SEIGE OF THE WRATH AND JEALOUSLY OF CAIN, AS HE SLAYS HIS BROTHER OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AND NOW YOU WANT TO CRY ANTI-SEMITE AS THE REST OF THE WORLD POINTS YOU OUT ISRAEL. YOUR HOLLOWEEN FALSE FACE OF TYRANICAL MASK FINALLY REMOVED AND WHO SHALL NOT RECOGNIZE YOUR MARK BROTHER CAIN, WHILE YOU CALL DOWN BLOOD FROM THE SUN? YOUR COLORFUL BRILLIANT PLUMAGE, A MULTITUDE OF HYPOCRITICAL PROMISES AND ATROCIOUS LIES -

 

I will don the Holy prophetic dress of sackcloth and ashes,

I will walk the streets of the nations as a living breathing witness and sign,

I will beg the Lord of the Worlds to chastise you,

I will cry a haunting cry to awake the sleeping of the population,

I will call upon ALL the righteous of the world to undress you,

 

You, a nation born in a single day,

You, the victim have now become the victimiser,

You, the oppressed have now become the oppressor,

You, who claimed six million innocent unjustly slain and exterminated -

Now YOU exterminate sixty million more????!!!!

 

Zeina Karam of the associated press reports:

 

BEIRUT, Lebanon (Aug. 9) - Ali Rmeity lies broken and bandaged on a hospital bed, wincing in pain. Three of his children and his parents are dead -- but he doesn't know all that yet. Doctors fear telling the 45-year-old now would be a bigger blow than he can sustain. Rmeity was at home with his wife and four children shortly after nightfall Monday when Israeli missiles slammed into their apartment building in the predominantly Shiite southern Beirut suburb of Chiah.

 

At least 41 people were killed - including 15 from Rmeity's family - making it the deadliest single strike of the four-week-old Israeli offensive in Lebanon. Workers continued to retrieve bodies from under the slabs of concrete Wednesday.”The hospital's owner, Dr. Nazih Gharious, said it was too early to tell Rmeity of his loss, which might prove to be too much of a shock. Rmeity's brother-in-law, Ibrahim Jomaa, repeatedly warned visitors not to slip and tell Rmeity that his children were killed.

 

"If he finds out he will surely die," he said.

 

"I had been feeling tired, so I went into the bedroom and lay down on the bed. Five minutes later the bombs fell and I found myself crying for help under the rubble," Rmeity said Tuesday. "My wife, who was on the balcony, was thrown in the air. They found her somewhere, I don't know where”

 

…In total, 15 of Rmeity's relatives were killed, according to hospital officials and relatives. Ali so far had only been told that his mother had died.”

 

3.

 

When it rains death from the heavens,

Where does one go, where does one hide?

 

As you deliberately target innocent victims,

Your insatiable and barbaric appetite for revenge,

You cannot defeat them from the land,

So you hunt, bomb, and kill them like dogs from the sky,

 

It doesn’t matter who, anyone will do – YOU,

A terrorist state supported by Little Boy George and Crew,

You are now the New Aryan Race – and from your

American Co-Murderers, as Azmi Bishara, rightly informs:

“Comes the laser, micro-optics, microelectronics,

And high tech aerodynamics allowing for precision flying,

Hairline fine guidance, dead-on targeting and surgical destruction.” [3]

 

You are the New and Improved Freddy Krueger now piloting F16 jets,

Technolo-fied, multiplied, and amplified in Surround-Sound 3D,

A resurrected and rabid Frederick Nietzsche foaming at the mouth,

Streaking across the skies faster than the speed of sound,

Soaring - Beyond Good and Evil - you think,

An arrogant immoral creeping shrieking Frankenstein horror movie

Stalking the crust of the earth,

An insane army of Jeffrey Dahmer pedophiles feeding upon the flesh

Bone and blood of the innocent little children you shoot down from above.

 

THIS IS A KATYUSHA REVOLUTIONARY GUERILLA KING KONG GODZILLA POEM - CALLING INTO EXISTENCE A BURNING SEARING CLEANSING FLAME TO GO BEFORE NASRALLAH’S HEZBULLAH, TO BURN THE LAND, AIR, AND SEA, ON BEHALF OF ALL THE WAR CRIMES YOU HAVE COMMITTED ISRAEL –

 

THIS IS A WARRIOR POEM FOR ALL THOSE UNAFRAID TO FIGHT,

FOR ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT FEAR THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE LIGHT,

 

THIS IS A POEM OF WAR ON BEHALF OF THE POOR, THE DISTRESSED,

THE DISPOSSESSED, AND THE OPPRESSED OF THE WORLD WHO DO NOT FEAR TO GIVE THEIR LIVES FOR WHAT IS RIGHT –

 

THIS IS A NEEDING SCREAMING RINGING BLEEDING POEM:

 

For all the little babies and children you have murdered,

For all the little babies and children you have left faceless,

For all the little babies and children you have left headless,

For all the little babies and children you have crippled for life,

For all the mothers and fathers you have left homeless and hopeless,

For all the husbands and wives you have left emotionally castrated 

For all the families you have completely destroyed,

 

THIS IS A MULTICOLORED MANY FLOWERED POEM –

A RADIANT FRAGRANT LOVE SONG

ON BEHALF OF NASRALLAH’S HEZBULLAH:

 

RISE UP YOU FEARLESS ONES AND REMEMBER - THE SAHABA

WERE ALSO OUT NUMBERED, ILL-EQUIPPED, AND CHALLENGED

TO THEIR FAITH AS YOU FEW, ONLY LATER TO BE ASKED BY THE ENEMY,

 

“WHO WERE THE MEN IN WHITE FIGHTING WITH YOU?”

 

4.

 

Rise up! Oh Noble Warriors and remove the yoke of Zion!

Rise up! Oh Courageous Warriors and break the yoke of Zion!

Rise up! Oh Fearless Warriors and throw off the yoke of Zion!

 

Oh Glorious Sons of Ali, alaihi salaam, the Power of God is with you!

Oh Glorious Sons of Ali, alaihi salaam, the Glory of God is with you!

Oh Glorious Sons of Ali, alaihi salaam, the Truth of God is with you!

 

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qana,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qubya,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Qasba,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Beit Hanoun,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Bint Jbeil,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jabalya,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Jenin,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Shajalya,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Al-Bureij,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nablus,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Nahalin,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED in Lebanon,

Remember the innocent MASSACRED all over Palestine,

 

The Ahl’al-Bait and all the Imams of the past, present, and future, support you! [4]

 

THIS POEM IS FOR THE GLORY OF NASRALLAH’S HEZBULLAH, A HOLY DHRIKRULLAH AND SACRED CHANT PROCLAIMED, [5] 

 

For all the Red Cross and supply trucks you have annihilated,

For all the doctors, nurses, and workers you have obliterated,

For all the people’s homes and automobiles you have disintegrated,

For all the schools and schoolteachers you have pulverized to ash and dust,

For all the hundreds of fleeing refugees you blew away from the face of the earth,

 

As they peacefully fled their homes and cities to escape your hate -

 

A NOT TOO LATE ANSWER TO YOUR SECULAR YET SPECTACULAR

DENIED PROTOCOLS OF ZION –

 

I WISH FOR YOU ONLY WHAT YOU HAVE WISHED FOR OTHERS ISRAEL.

 

INSHALLAH HEZBULLAH’S NASRALLAH

SHALL BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL DHIKRULLAH

HEARD ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD AND WITHIN YOUR VERY BORDERS SHALL ENTER A STRONG VIOLENT BLAST OF RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION FROM THE LORD OF THE HOLY KABA THAT SHALL BURN YOUR VEHEMENT EVIL FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND JERUSALEM SHALL ONCE AGAIN BECOME THE HOLY CITY IT ONCE WAS BEFORE YOU ARRIVED –

 

A NINETEEN FORTY-EIGHT SELF IMPOSED - JOHNNY COME LATELY,

WANNA-BE NATION OF SUPPORTED CRULETY AND RACIAL TYRANNY.

 

 

Epilogue

 

Oh my beloved Sheikh Hassan, we say to you, As Salaam Alaykum.

We love and honor you and all the great brave Mujahideen who follow you,

Remember - YOU are the Noble and Illustrious Sons of Ali, alaihi salaam,

 

And remember -

 

There is no power less than the Power of God,

That can withstand the Power of God –

 

“Verily, We have given you (O Muhammad) a manifest victory.

 

That Allah may forgive you your sins of the past and the future,

And complete His Favour on you, and guide you on the Straight Path,

And that Allah may help you with strong help,

 

He it is Who sent down As-Sakinah (calmness and tranquillity) into the hearts

 Of the believers, that they may grow more in Faith along with their (present) Faith. 

 

And to Allah belong the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is Ever-Knower, All-Wise.” [6] 

 

 

SIAM

08.11.06-4:41am

 

 

Footnotes:

 

[1]  Mujahideen is the Arabic word for "strugglers", and also denotes those who engage in Islamic Holy War - jihad (struggle).  The word is a plural form of Mujāhid, which when literally translated from the Arabic means "struggler" but is often translated in the West as "Holy Warrior".  The opposite of Mujahideen is Qaideen - people who remain inactive and do not actively fight. Mujahideen is also transliterated from Arabic as Mujahedeen, Mujahedin, Mujahidin, and Mujaheddin.

 

[2]  Quotation from an article entitled, Yoke of Zion, written by Israel Adam Shamir as posted on his website, http://www.israelshamir.net.

 

[3]  Quotation from an article entitled, When The Skies Rain Death, written by Azmi Bishara as posted on http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/806/op2.htm

 

[4]  Ahl’al-Bait is a term from the Arabic language, meaning those direct descendents of the family, house, or mantle, of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saws).

 

[5]  DHIKRULLAH or Dhikr [Arabic], or Zikr [Persian or Urdu] of Allah (God), denotes “pronouncement”, “invocation”, or “remembrance of Allah (God)”. It also refers to an Islamic devotional practice including the chanting and repetition of the Divine names of Allah (God), as well as supplications and aphorisms from hadith literature and recitations from the Holy Qur’an.  As to its usage in the poem, it implies to remember Allah and those who fight or struggle against unrighteousness wherever it may exist. To Dhikr, chant, or repeat the names of Sayyid Sheikh Nasrallah and the Hezbullah Mujahideen implies remembering Allah, and remembering them, by invoking their names in ones prayers and thoughts continuously before the presence of Allah, The All Mighty – The All Glorious.

 

[6 Quotation from The Holy Qur’an Sura 48, Al-Fath (The Victory), Ayah 1-4

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Address of his eminence Sayed Hasan Nasarallah on 3rd August

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious Most Merciful: "Men said to them: "A great army is gathering against you": And frightened them: But it (only) increased their Faith: They said: "For us God sufficeth, and He is the best disposer of affairs."

Peace be upon all of you...

Once again, I address you today as we are entering the fourth week of the open war which "Israel" declared against Lebanon. As usual, I find myself concerned to talk about several points and issues that are relevant to the field, political and public developments that are occurring on the level of this confrontation. I will mainly concentrate on some field issues because of their significance and because I have been telling you since the first day that the field is the main, crucial and decisive element of this battle, added to other significant and key elements that must not be ignored or overlooked. This is why I will try in my speech to focus on some of the field aspects due to their criticality and significance regarding the ongoing battle.

As I speak, your brethren and children of the resistance combatants are enduring heroic battles along the frontline in south Lebanon, in each town, village, highland, mountain and outpost. This is where I begin, from the battles which the freedom fighters are conducting against a group of brigades, as the enemy declared. This issue is nothing new; this is a group of Israeli enemy brigades, the crиme of the brigades, the crиme of the parachutists, and armored brigades, which are operating within the shade of a heavy and violent cover by the Israeli air force.

These battles on the ground are taking place at present. They began since the first day of war and aggression. Since the first day, there have been confrontations on the ground. But what is occurring at present is that these battles have become more comprehensive, wider, and more violent. We all remember the confrontations that took place in Maroun El-Rass, Aytaroun, and Ayta Shaab at the early days as well as the historic and heroic battles that took place at the triangle of men in Bint Jbail, Maroun El-Rass and Aytaroun.

Over the past two or three days, this operational confrontation on the field took different forms with the participation of a number of brigades and tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers as well as hundreds of Israeli tanks and vehicles. However, on the opposite side, the freedom fighters stand up to them with courage, valor, and strength, intercepting this advancement. The fact that a few days have past, one can still see that the fighting is still taking place at the frontlines and in the front villages and outposts.

The Zionists as well have been surprised by this confrontation on the land since the start. But now, they are receiving confirmation on their first conclusions which they concluded from the battles of Maroun El-Rass, Aytaroun, Ayta Shaab, Bint Jbail or any other battle that is giving them confirmation through the events of these days. The two most important issues on the level of the field are protruding as follows:

The first issue relates to the human element, the way which the Israelis used when they came and infiltrated or surrounded a certain town, leaving a back road for the fighters to escape and turn tail. But in all the battles which they endured until now, the fighters have been maintaining their positions, fighting to the last breath and last bullet despite all the harsh and difficult conditions which they have encountered. Therefore, the Israeli has been surprised by the present confrontations, by the human element of the resistance. The experience has proven until now and will prove in the future the same issue; that they are men who have a certain level of faith, will, courage, steadfastness and willingness to sacrifice lives. This is the issue about which I have spoken and said that these entrenched feet do not tremble and will not vanish even if the mountains had to vanish. The Israelis are experiencing this issue in every post and in each battle.

Speaking further on the human element, by asking all the military experts they will say that what is occurring is like a miracle; that complete brigades with their tanks and vehicles and under the heavy cover of the air force are attacking groups of the resistance in this or that village, in this or that post. Still, those men maintain their positions, fighting, keeping steadfastness and falling as martyrs. They even find the initiative by attacking and inflicting materialistic and human losses upon the enemy. This is a miracle when measured by the military and materialistic measurement. However, when measured by the men of God, this becomes a natural issue because this is the meaning of faith, will and honesty.

The second element is the capacity that was available at the resistance, this was also surprising. The enemy was shocked by the ability, quality and quantity that destroyed its tanks and military machines, which are the most advanced, important and most powerful tanks and military machines in the world. Still, the freedom fighters or mujahideen have been intercepting and destroying these tanks. The entire Israeli military tactic depends mainly on the deep penetrations using tanks and armored vehicles. But when the tanks cannot move, the movements of the enemy officers and soldiers become slow on the ground. This is the situation.

Today, when they advance or penetrate some locations, they start seeking for places where there is no resistance in order to keep advancing. But sooner than ever, the resistance takes the initiative in the places of their advancement, haunting, killing and expelling them. These abilities are presently available pertaining to quality and quantity. In other words, this is the antiarmor capacity at the resistance coupled with the numbers about which you heard or seen through the TV screens and special agencies. Until now, we did not display any images because at the frontlines the issues can be difficult. The number of the tanks and machines that have been destroyed until now is very large. I confirm that the Merkava tank or the Israeli military vehicles have been also intercepted, deactivated and frustrated because of the human element that possesses a high level of steadfastness and military abilities which have been abundant on this field, thanks to God. Those two elements have been clearly surprising for the enemy.

Regarding the issue of the ground confrontation, I would like to stress on the following points:

First, pertaining to the battlefield, the ballistic issue as well as the remaining issues about which I will talk, the enemy, has been employing a policy of clear, abundant and open lies. This is the nature of the enemy and it can be part of its psychological war. Anyhow, some employ this policy and lie in the psychological or non-psychological wars. For example, in the battle of Maroun El-Rass, the fighting took place for days. But the enemy said that it took control of Maroun El-Rass since the very beginning. Also in the battle of Bint Jbail, the enemy said it controlled the city of Bint Jbail. Instead, Bint Jbail maintained steadfastness and fought until one of the Israeli analysts or senior military observers said in his article: Are we controlling Bint Jbail or is Bint Jbail controlling us? At present, through its statements, the enemy is trying to portray itself that it occupied, controlled, entered and took control of wide areas of south Lebanon. Most of these issues, without saying in their entirety, are untrue and lies and they are part of the psychological war which the Israeli enemy is employing.

The second point relates to the prior one. First, the enemy is trying to present a victory, which is different from the psychological war. It is trying to say that I achieved the so-and-so achievement. I have listened to the Israeli media means saying that after violent battles the Abbad outpost of Hizbullah has been placed under control. There is no such outpost with the name of Abbad which belongs to Hizbullah. There is a point at the international border opposite to the Abbad outpost; it is an observation point that has been evacuated since the very first day, where there has been no fighting. Still, they say that they controlled the outpost of Hizbullah after violet battles. I do not know what violent battles they are talking about and with whom they fought. Did they fight each other? Anyhow, on the second point, we are facing land battles and I said a clear policy since the first day. We do not have a policy of clinging on to the geography. Therefore, we have no intention for our fighters and mujahideen to be killed in defense of this point, this hill or that village. Our way of fight is not geographic. As I said, we are not a regular army and we do not use the way of the regular army. We rather use the way of the guerillas. Therefore, it would be useful for us to allow them advance into the entrances of the villages because this will give us a chance of a direct engagement in order to inflict human and materialistic losses upon them. This is our aim on the ground. Our aim is to inflict the largest possible number of human and materialistic losses upon the enemy. This issue is being achieved until now, thanks to God, in a great level. After this, when the enemy says it entered this hill or that village, this will neither change our strategy of combat nor our tactics or the morale of our fighters. On the contrary, when the enemy says that it entered this village or that hill after 23 days of fighting and heavy bombardment and ground battles while employing several brigades of the army, elite and reserves, what kind of achievement can this be?

This in fact is an achievement of the resistance, knowing that this village and that outpost have lasted until today while we know that the way of the Israelis is in using their tanks and brigades to invade and enter tens of kilometers within a few hours, but still, they are only advancing a few meters within days into south Lebanon. This is on the level of the battlefields at first.

Second, with respect to the sea, this is also part of the policy of hiding the losses about which I talked earlier. First, I would like to stress on the statement that was issued by the Islamic Resistance, that the resistance missiles targeted an Israeli warship type Saer 4.5 opposite to the coast of Sour. The Israelis denied it, the issue ended at this point and the case was closed in the media. But since I am talking about the field operations, I must point to this issue and say that when we first struck the warship (Saer 5) opposite to the coast of Beirut, the Israeli enemy immediately denied the issue. But the ship was by chance close to the seashore and we were able to shoot the missiles and take footage of the hit. After we played the footage, the Zionists were forced to admit that there was a military ship that was hit and that they had missing soldiers with a search mission for them. With respect to the second strike, I confirm that it took place, but there is no necessity at present to exploit the issue because the technical means defined the location of that ship for us, hence we managed to hit it, and the coordinates confirm that this ship has been hit, but this time off the coast of Sour. There was heavy fog and the ship was very far from the seashore. However, this issue has been accomplished. Anyhow, in a battle of this kind, it is normal for the enemy to hide the issue and emerge through the media to say that Olmert was onboard this ship which Hizbullah claims it had struck, and that he has been sailing in open. How can we know that Olmert was riding the same ship which we hit or any other ship?

Second, regarding the missiles bombardment issue, despite of what the Zionist enemy said until now on this field, the missile shelling of the settlements in north Palestine reaching after Haifa will continue; rather, it will continue with a higher rhythm pertaining to quality and quantity. Yesterday, the Islamic Resistance fired more than 300 rockets into the northern settlements and shelled the settlement of Beit Shan or Beesan and the city of Afoula in the after-Haifa Israeli depth using Khaibar. A few days ago, the Israeli enemy said that it will suspend its air strikes on Lebanon for 48 hours after the massacre of Qana. Its aim is to let the steam and ease the environment as well as lessen the impact of the massacre it had perpetrated. The enemy took this step. We also suspended our strikes, knowing of course that the enemy did not commit totally but partially. We stopped striking the settlements in north Palestine for two days.

At this point, I wish to point to the stupidity, arrogance and ignorance of the leadership of this enemy. Look to the mistake it has committed. This of course is evidence to us. Olmert read a speech of victory and announced that "Israel" won the battle. He also said that he indeed managed to destroy the entire military infrastructure of Hizbullah. Perhaps, he mainly relied on the 48 hours during which the shelling of the Zionist settlements stopped. These same words were repeated by Shimon Peres, the "stupid" prime minister; also his "senile" deputy said the same words adding that the military infrastructure of Hizbullah has been completely destroyed and that its Secretary-General fled the country. This arrogance and this ignorance prevented them from approaching the truth about which Lebanese and Israeli military experts talked. Even news reporters can understand more than this arrogant political and military leadership of the Zionist enemy. This is because the truth, as these experts understood, was that the resistance and its leadership took a decision to stop shelling the settlements for 48 hours. This is because we wanted to give the people a chance to rest and move the injured and sick people as well as let the people depart the towns that are experiencing difficult humane crisis, and give chance to lift the wreckages. This is the real reason. Hence, when the resistance stopped the shelling for 48 hours, this means, on the military level, that the resistance leadership is in full control, not only of the fronts, but also of all the launching pads of the missiles. This is why no individual action or violation took place. Therefore, there are forms that are operating efficiently and there is a leadership that gives the order, times the launching of the missiles, and there is a base along the front receiving orders and obeying.

This is the correct reading of the 48-hour stoppage of missiles launch. But how did the enemy read it? Therefore, as soon as the truce (suspending air strikes on Lebanon) ended and the Israelis resumed their raids again on our villages, cities, infrastructure and capital city, the Islamic Resistance fired in one day yesterday more than 300 rockets into the settlements, knowing that the usual daily record was 100, 150 or 170 missiles. We did not wish the brothers to launch this number, but this quantity yesterday was intended as it was today. The resistance also shelled Afoula and Bait Shan. The resistance can also, as I can confirm after yesterday's and today's performance, fire the number it wishes or the number ordered, targeting the depth it seeks or the depth ordered. It can fire in the morning or in the afternoon or at night. We have no problem regarding this aspect.

This is the truth regarding the ballistic issue. Therefore, we can find that the Israelis were frustrated; and I can say that what happened was like a scandal for Olmert, Peres, the minister of war and the staff commander. The Israeli media means and senior Israeli political and military analysts began talking about this issue. We heard Olmert's retraction speech in which he said to the people, we did not promise you that we will stop the rockets, we did not promise you with this or that issue. He did promise them, his promise has been videoed. Anyhow, this Israeli frustration and this Israeli scandal are part of the aspects of the confrontation that forced the enemy staff commander yesterday to launch more threat to the Lebanese, and he said that he was studying the possibility of striking the Lebanese depth including the city of Beirut. Anyhow, this is an intimidation and part of the psychological war, but there may lurk a serious will behind it as well.

At this point, I would like to comment on this intimidation. First of all, the Lebanese depth, irrespective of Beirut city, is being shelled each day, and it neither needs a new decision nor a new lesson. The entire south, the entire Mount Lebanon, Bikaa, Baalbeck, Hirmil, Akkar, Tripoli, Jubeil, Kesserwan, Matn, Baabda, all are being shelled. There is no place of the Lebanese depth that has been spared until now. Pertaining to one of the aspects of the challenge, this Israeli scandal forced the enemy Chief of Staff yesterday, to further intimidate the Lebanese and said that he was studying the possibility of striking the Lebanese depth including the city of Beirut. This intimidation is part of the psychological, and a serious intention may lurk behind it. At hits point, I would like to comment on this intimidation with the following points:

First, the Lebanese depth except Beirut is being shelled each day and does not need a new decision or a new lesson. The entire south, the entire Mount Lebanon, Bikaa, Baalbeck, Hirmil, Akkar, Tripoli, Jubeil, Kesserwan, Matn, Baabda, all are being shelled. There is no place of the Lebanese depth that has been spared until now. Yes, Beirut city was spared, but from the words of the Chief of Staff, I believe that the intimidation targets Beirut city.

Second, regarding the city of Beirut, knowing that the entire Lebanese people are one nation, one blood, one dignity, and one security, where no area is different from the other, yet Beirut's particularity is that it remains the capital. Hence, he is threatening to strike the capital city. At this point, I will not use the same terms which I used in the past, like when I said Haifa and beyond Haifa. I do not want to leave any margin for the analysis. As long as the enemy says it is studying the method that it will employ to reach the end, I want it to hear from me very clear words. If you bomb our capital city we will bomb the capital city of your usurping entity. If you bomb the city of Beirut, the Islamic Resistance will bomb the city of Tel Aviv, knowing that they can with the help of God.

Third, at this point, I wish to confirm to the enemy leaders and nation, this nation is living on false hopes and lies. Your entire air strikes and land invasions could not stop our rockets; even if you took several kilometers from the border, even if you occupied the land to the south of Litany or the north of Litany, even if you reach Beirut, you will not be able to achieve this goal. Anyhow, the enemy political and military leaders and its analysts began acknowledging this fact. But I wanted to confirm it with assertion and the help of God (The Exalted).

Fourth, regarding the rockets and the settlements, I would like to confirm that our shelling of the settlements, in the north or beyond Haifa or Tel Aviv, and since the issues are now clearer, is a reaction and not an action. If you attack our cities, villages and capital, we will react. And any time you decide to stop your attacks on our cities, villages and infrastructure, we will not fire rockets on any Israeli settlement or city. Naturally, we would rather, in case of fighting, fight soldier to soldier on the ground and battlefield. We are worthy of this battle and we are its men.

After this field narration, yes, I must admit that this enemy, within the recent period that was given to it by Condoleezza Rice, the period of the past week, managed to accomplish two great and significant military achievements, which I must recognize. The first is its perpetration of the massacre of Qana, killing women and children inside a safe shelter, after which it arrogantly justified its crime by saying that the resistance was firing from that house or from the vicinity of that house. Later, it denied but started to say again today that the information which it received confirmed that there were fighters from Hizbullah inside that house. It fell as a victim of this false information, this failed intelligence. I do not believe that there has been a wrong tip since the start. I believe that the Zionists intended to kill women and children in Qana because they know that we are human beings who are rich with sympathy.

It is true that we have a strong and steady volition, yet at the same time, we are full of sympathy, affection and love. We are sympathetic towards our people, women and children. They [enemy] want to pressurize us exploiting this