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Nasrallah Calls on Region to Fight ISIS

May 24, 2015

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on regional states to join the fight against the Islamic State group on Sunday, saying “they are not stronger than Israel and the United States, and the nations of the region have already defeated Israel and the United States.”

He explained that “one of the reasons for the Israeli position of power over the years is the partition plan the region has adopted,” and noted that the danger the Islamic State poses was no lesser than that posed by Israel.

Nasrallah mocked the US-led coalition’s efforts to stop ISIS, saying “the number of attacks the international coalition conducted in a few months is less than what Israel did in far less time in Lebanon and Gaza.”

Nasrallah’s speech was broadcast on large screens at an event in Nabatieh marking 15 years since the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The event was attended by senior Hezbollah officials and other prominent Lebanese figures closely linked to the organization, including Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, and Syria and Iran’s ambassadors to Lebanon.

The Hezbollah leader said that those who remain silent to ISIS’s atrocities will be their first victim in the future.

“Daesh’s first victim in Lebanon will be the Al-Mustaqbal faction,” Nasrallah said of the Sunni anti-Hezbollah faction in Lebanon, using the Islamic State’s Arabic-language acronym.

He stressed that sitting and waiting for the Islamic State to attack was not an option, “we must take the initiative and look for options to fight these armed organizations. We are facing a danger the likes of which we have not seen over the course of history. This threat is against mankind itself,” he said.

Nasrallah claimed Hezbollah was fighting alongside the Syrian army, its people and the resistance. “We will be everywhere in Syria, we own this campaign and are capable of bringing victory,” he said.

He also told off those in Lebanon who were criticizing Hezbollah for their high number of casualties in Syria: “They should be ashamed of themselves because thanks to these casualties, they live in security and peace. We’re not ashamed of our casualties.”

In a message to Israel, the Hezbollah leader vowed that despite the fighting in the region, “we will stay in southern Lebanon.”

While his organization was concentrating on the fight against rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad and against the Islamic State, “we did not evacuate this front (southern Lebanon) and we will not evacuate it. We must be on two fronts. We continue operating on the front against Israel – other issues do not distract us.”

He went on to say that Israel must know that “the resistance is at the height of its readiness,” noting that “the enemy knows this better than the Lebanese people. That is why it fears the resistance and continues its psychological warfare.”

“We are very alert and there is no possibility that we would look away even for a moment from the Israeli enemy,” he concluded.

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