“We do not need to open a war front with Israel. The strategy that should be adopted in Lebanon is to preserve the resistance.” He said
Commenting on Nasrallah's speech, Zahle MP Oqab Saqr told VOL this morning : The resistance should also get off the back of some Lebanese. The March 8 forces have always a plan to put obstacles to the March 14 project
Nasrallah called Israel “a malignant illegal entity” and said making deals and normalization with Israel is religiously forbidden. He added “ We will not recognize Israel, neither succumb to it, and we will not normalize or make peace with this malignant cell that should be terminated, even if the whole world recognizes its existence.”
He accused the “US administration of tricking the Arabs to get more concessions and push the Arab world toward normalization with Israel.”
He also accused the Arab regimes of “ confiscating the resistance’s arms while facilitating the smuggling of weapons used in internal strife among the Palestinian factions.”
Nasrallah warned Israel “Harming Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem will lead to an unexpected and unprecedented response regardless of any regional and international considerations.” He said
Many politicians in Lebanon are predicting that Israel may launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah before attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities.
Saturdayollah Sistani
11:00 Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sistani announces that Monday, will be the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Iraq
10:23 pm : Vice President of the Higher Shiite Council Sheikh Abdel-Amir Qabalan announces that Sunday, will be the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Lebanon
10:00pm PM designate Saad Hariri extends greetings to Muslims and Arabs celebrating Eid al-Fitr
8:33pm President Obama extends greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr
7:35pm Dar al-Fatwa announces that Sunday, will be the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Lebanon
6:54 Saudi Arabia and Jordan announce that , Sunday, is the first day of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
3:00 pm VOA : Russia says it has scrapped plans to deploy missiles in a region near Poland after US President Barack Obama canceled plans for a missile defense system in Central Europe.
2:10 pm al-Akhbar: MP Walid Jumblatt has accused the US neocons of rejecting formation of the unity cabinet in Lebanon
2:00pm Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabban to deliver Eid al-Fitr’s speech at Al Amin mosque in central Beirut tomorrow morning at 7:10 am
1:40 pm President Michel Suleiman’s press office issued a statement on Saturday on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, wishing the Lebanese in general and Muslims in particular a “Happy Fitr”.
1:39pm Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah will deliver Eid al-Fitr’s speech tomorrow morning at a mosque in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
1:19pm The governor of the South informed Minister Bahia Hariri that 5 people were arrested in Sidon’s dump fire case.
1:17pm President Suleiman discussed with his top aides preparations for his visit to New York to attend the General Assembly meeting.
12;45 pm An Arab resolution expressing concern about Israel’s nuclear weapons was narrowly passed ( 49 to 45 ) at the IAEA Friday, in a vote exposing a rift between developing and industrialized countries.
12:30 pm CNN: Indonesian police say they have DNA evidence identifying the man they killed this week as Noordin Top, the nation's most-wanted terror suspect.
12:24pm MP Farid al-Khazen told OTV: The opposition doesn’t have any insurmountable demands. Any attempt to form a majority cabinet is a formula for creating a crisis in the country.
11:37 Minister Bahia Hariri: All public schools will be closed during Eid al-Fitr holiday.
11:27 Minister Jean Oghassabian: We won’t compromise on our principles, the constitution and the division of power between Muslims and Christians.
10:46 MP Robert Fadel told VOL: I expect that the 15-10-5 formula would be kept. The majority’s stance urges Hariri not to make more concessions.
10:18 MP Antoine Zahra told Future News: The LF suggested a technocrat cabinet when it realized that the formation of a national unity government was impossible. Nasrallah’s tone yesterday was better than before.
8:45 Fares Soueid told Free Lebanon radio : MP Michel Aoun is eying the presidency and not the finance or any other ministry. Hezbollah doesn’t want to eliminate the state but it doesn’t want it strong either.
8:30 MP Oqab Saqr told VOL: The resistance should also get off the back of some Lebanese. The March 8 forces have always a plan to put obstacles to the March 14 project.
08:12 MP Antoine Zahra: Hariri is not thinking of a government of the majority only because it is impossible for any a Shi'ite to participate under the current tension
08:08 Lebanon approved the appointment of the new French ambassador to Lebanon
08:01 Suleiman travels next Tuesday before noon to New York to head Lebanon's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly session
07:54 Al Akhbar : Hariri to brief the Saudis on his intention to form a government of technocrats
07:35 Syrian ambassador to the UN rejects Ban Ki- Moon’s reply to Damascus’s request for probing Detlev Mehlis and his aide Lehman for manipulating the investigation into Hariri's assassination,
07:05 harb : Suleiman told me when I met him during the consultations that he did not announce that he will not sign except a decree of a national unity government
06:58 Sources: The formation of a cabinet is heading towards a dead end
06:49 Alain Aoun: whoever was given a new mandate should have new ideas and the ball is now in the court of Hariri
Friday
6:00pm Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told his local and Arab foes on Friday on the occasion of Jerusalem Day "to get off the resistance's back" and threatened Israel that his fighters would "shatter" its army if the Jewish state attacks Lebanon.
4:03pm Kahwaji: The recent rocket fire incident is aimed at keeping the south an arena for exchange of messages , which we won’t allow it because it affects the interest of the nation and provides a free service to the enemy
4:00pm Army chief General Kahwaji met General Webster to discussed US aid .
4: 00 pm BBC US envoy George Mitchell's latest round of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East has ended without agreement, Palestinian officials said.
3:52pm caretaker minister of Finance Chatah: The interest rates will be to declining and the level of public debt may fall to 151% of GDP after it reached more than 160%
