1.
I was of course happy
to meet the Hizbull-ah people, because it is a point of view that is rarely
heard in the United States. I have no problem saying that I do want to express
Solidarity with them, and I am not going to be a coward or a hypocrite about it.
I don’t care about Hizbull-ah as a political
organisation. I don’t know much about their Politics, and anyhow,
it’s irrelevant. I don’t live in Lebanon. It’s a choice that the Lebanese
have to make: Who they want to be their leaders, who they want to represent
them. But there is a fundamental principle: People have the Right to defend
their country from foreign occupiers, and People have the Right to defend their
country from invaders who are destroying your country. That to me is a very
basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question. My parents went through World
War II. Now, Stalin’s regime was not exactly a bed of roses. It was a ruthless
and brutal regime, and many people perished. But who didn’t support the Soviet
Union when they defended the Nazis? Who didn’t support the Red Army? In all the
countries of Europe which were occupied, who gets all the honours? The
Resistance. The Communist Resistance, it was brutal, it was ruthless. The
Communists were not. It wasn’t a bed of roses, but you respect them. You
respect them because they resisted the foreign occupiers of their country. If I
am going to honour the Communists during World War II - even though I probably would not have done
very well under their regimes - if I’m going to honour them, I am going to
honour the Hizullah. They show Courage, and they show Discipline. I respect
that.
2.
[In Arabic] That is an accurate description of
the situation before 2000. But after 2000, the Israelis withdrew from southern
Lebanon. There was a rift within Lebanon between the Lebanese political players
on the issue of the future of the weapons and the issue of the Resistance. This
rift, which has taken place. You are now taking sides. After all, you are
saying that you are only visiting Lebanon, but you don’t see the ramifications of
the July War for the People.
3.
Listen, if you want to
close your eyes and believe it was all over in May 2000, you can do so. You can
play that game. But the Reality was – and everyone understood it – that the
Israeli attitude was: We are going to knock out Hizbullah. They began planning
a new War right after they were forced to leave in 2000. They found their
excuse, their pretext, in July 2006, but there is no question among rational
people that Israel was never going to let the Hibullah victory go by.
4.
[In Arabic] They were determined to teach their.
They War could have been avoided.
5.
It could not have been avoided. There is no way
that the United States and Israel are going to tolerate any Resistance in the
Arab World. If
you want to pretend it can be avoided, you can play that game. [Jarmusch and
that cunt of his. Buscemi. Lurie.] But serious people, clear-headed
people, knew there was going to a War sonner or later. Do you think there is
not going to be another War? Do you think Israel is going to allow that defeat
in July 2006? Do you want to pretend it is Hizbullah that is causing the
trouble? No, there will be another War, and the
destruction will probably be ten times worse, maybe even more, than July 2006,
because Israel is determined, with the United States, to put the Arabs in their place and
to keep them in their place. Now, how can I not respect those who say No
to that? You know, during the Spanish Civil War, there was a famous woman –
they called her La Pasionaria – Dolores Ibárruri from the Spanish Republic. She famously said:
“It’s better to die on your feet than to walk crawling on your knees.” But that
is up to the Lebanese People in its entirety. I totally agree. I am not telling
you what to do with your lives, and if you’d rather live crawling on your feet,
I could respect that. I could respect that. People want to live. How can I deny you that Right? [Accurate.]
But then, how can I not respect those who say they would rather die on their
feet? How can I not respect that? [Accurate.] Israel and the United States are
attacking, because they will not allow any military Resistance to their control
of the region. That’s the problem. If Hizbullah laid down its Arms and said:
“We will do whatever the Americans say.”, you wouldn’t have a War, that’s true.
But you would also be the Slaves of the Americans. I have to respect those who
refuse to be Slaves. [Accurate.]
6.
[In Arabic] Is there no other way than military
Resistance?
7.
I don’t believe there is another way. I wish
there were another way. Who wants War? Who wants destruction? Even Hitler
didn’t want War. He would much prefer to have accomplished his aims peacefully,
if he could. [Accurate.] So I am not saying that I want it, but I honestly
don’t see another way, unless you choose to be their Slaves, and many People
here have chosen that.
1.
I can’t really say. I
can understand it, you want to live. I can’t really say I respect it. Before the bodies
are even buried, before the buildings are even rebuilt, the person who is
responsible for it all, you can’t wait to welcome him. You can’t wait to roll
out the red carpet. I can’t respect that. In that
respect, I like the Jews much more. I like their attitude. Do you know what the
Jewish attitude is? Never to forgive, never to forget. I agree with that. Why
roll out the red carpet less than two years after your whole country was
destroyed by them? The Secretary of State said it was the birth pangs of a new
Middle East. That’s the statement of a [psychopath]. A [psychopath] would
compare the birth of a child to the destruction of a country. And yet, there are People here who are so anxious to welcome
her. They are trying to figure out what the Americans are thinking. They can’t
wait for their banquets. How can anyone respect that? I respect that Jews a
thousand times more; Never to forgive, never to forget. All the death and all
the destruction, and you can’t wait to welcome him.
2.
[In Arabic] Norman.
3.
It’s disgusting.
1.
Who the hell cares if Bush is coming?
2.
[In Arabic] But you say there will be another
War.
3.
You should have declared him persona non grata. He’s not
welcome here. He destroyed your country. He was responsible for the War. You
know full well that resolution could have been passed three weeks earlier. He destroys your
country, and you can’t wait to greet him. You have no self-respect. How can
you expect other people to respect Arabs.
1.
If the Lebanese People overwhelmingly vote to
let the American and Israelis have their way, I guess you have to accept that.
I couldn’t possibly say that they don’t have the Right to make that choice. Listen, in Nazi-occupied Europe, you have to remember,
most of the population made the choice to live under the Nazis. All this talk
about a French Resistance is just a joke. It never happened. The French Resistance,
about 20% of the French population read the Resistance’s newspaper. They were
maybe 10% of the French who resisted. The rest
said: “Don’t resist, because the Nazis were ruthless.” You resist – four
hundred are killed for each soldier who’s killed. That’s how they Nazis
operated. So most of the French said, like you: “We want to live. Don’t
resist.” But now I have to ask you, in retrospect: Who do we honour? Do
we honour those who say: “Let us live”, or do we honour those who said: “Let’s
resist”?
1.
Leaders come last. There will be a leader who
comes to Power in Israel, who is willing to make the concessions, after the
conditions have been created – namely, Israel has to suffer a defeat.
[Accurate.]
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