Hizbullah calls for respectful attitude toward Israelis

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Hizbullah calls for respectful attitude toward Israelis
Nasrallah: ‘Effective resistance was the main factor behind our success’

Adnan El-Ghoul
Daily Star staff

Secretary-general of Hizbullah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said that Arabs should respect the Israelis because they have showed the other side of their nature, and should respect them for the way they cared for their fellow citizens, dead and alive.

However, he warned that this wouldn’t stop Hizbullah from taking more prisoners if it needed to in the future.

Nasrallah was speaking on the occasion of the return of the detainees from prison in Israel, at Sayyed al-Shuhadaa compound in the Southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday night.

“These values are our values too,” Nasrallah added, in reference to the Israelis concern about their citizens’ lives.

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Nasrallah said that there were still three main prisoners left: Samir Qantar, Yehya Skaff and Nasim Nasr, who happens to hold Israeli citizenship. Nasrallah said that Nasr was Lebanese because his father was Lebanese. He got Israeli citizenship because his mother was originally Jewish, though she had subsequently converted to Islam, he added. The Israelis deny that Skaff is held in any Israeli prisons and deny all knowledge of him.

Nasrallah said he had many options left to deal with this issue, adding that if necessary, Hizbullah would kidnap more Israelis, but make sure that they were taken alive this time. Another option was to exchange information on Ron Arad.

He mentioned the case of the four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982, and said that he considered Israel responsible for providing information on their fate. It is alleged that Lebanese factions handed the diplomats over to the invading Israeli Army.
Nasrallah praised the freed prisoners and their sacrifices, and said they had the right to sue Israel in an international court for what happened to them as they had been hostages, taken from their homes, while the captured Israelis were prisoners, soldiers captured in a foreign land.

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http://www.lebanonwire.com/0401/04013012DS.asp

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. Thank you! I noticed that while CNN International did mention

that part of Nasrulla's remarks, CNN domestic, like all the rest of the western media, chose not to report on it.

It's a little thing, but like Nasrulla's remarks, when taken in context, it says a lot about American media, and American opinion, and how much B depends on A.

[Herschel]

2. Please!

Nasrallah says Arabs should respect Israelis. Yet taking them as prisoners is an option. Oh, my.

[Muddleoftheroad]

3. Yes, be respectful when you kill those Israelis!