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[00:02:33] a Good evening, two years after
[00:02:36] Israel assassinated hisbullah secretary general Said Hasan Nasrullah in
[00:02:40] Beirot, his legacy remains deeply tied to the
[00:02:44] political and military future of Lebanon and the wider region.
[00:02:48] Nasrulah led Hazbollah for more than three
[00:02:51] of decades, transforming the movement into a major political
[00:02:55] and military force in Lebanon and a central actor in the regional
[00:02:59] confrontation. with Israel, his
[00:03:02] in assassination in September 2024
[00:03:05] of followed of weeks later by the killing of his designated
[00:03:08] successorti marked one
[00:03:11] of the most significant blows to hisbullah in its
[00:03:15] history, two years on, however, hisbullah has not
[00:03:18] disappeared, under secretary general Sheikh Naim Qasim, the
[00:03:22] movement continues to reject the disarmament and
[00:03:25] insists that its weapons remain necessary in confronting this
[00:03:29] regression. so tonight, as his bull commemorates the man who
[00:03:33] led it for more than 30 years, we look
[00:03:36] beyond the memories and ask
[00:03:38] of about nastrola's legacy, how hisbula has changed since his
[00:03:42] assassination and what his assassination continues to mean for
[00:03:46] Lebanon, Israel and the wider region with our
[00:03:49] guests,
[00:03:55] we have Ali Murad joining us, he is a journalist and political commentator
[00:03:58] from the capital B.
[00:04:00] of Also joining us will be
[00:04:04] Hussein Al-Bukai, activist and political commentator in the city
[00:04:08] of Sana. Gentlemen, thank you both for
[00:04:12] your time tonight. I'm going to begin with Mr. Murad, as he's
[00:04:16] our guest in Beirot, two years after the
[00:04:20] assassination
[00:04:21] of the late leader of hisbullah secretary general, Sheikh, I'm
[00:04:25] so sorry, Said
[00:04:26] of Hasan Nasulah, how would you assess his legacy at this point?
[00:04:33] of Thank you for having
[00:04:37] of me. First of all, it's important to um to
[00:04:41] stress on the idea that
[00:04:44] of the assassination
[00:04:45] of the leaders
[00:04:47] of the resistance uh doesn't mean that the
[00:04:50] resistance of movement
[00:04:53] would um change its
[00:04:56] course throughout its mission.
[00:05:01] uh uh that is to confront the aggressors and fight
[00:05:05] fight against the uh the US zionist uh
[00:05:09] project in the region so when said
[00:05:13] was assassinated two years ago, hizbullah
[00:05:17] stated it clearly that they are not going to
[00:05:21] change their course if the the um
[00:05:25] the reason why they assassinated say nasrullah is
[00:05:28] was to to decapitate the resistance
[00:05:32] movement and cause it to reassess
[00:05:35] its mission regarding the the
[00:05:39] course the confrontation with the z. project in
[00:05:43] the region, it turned out that later,
[00:05:47] after the 15 months that had had passed,
[00:05:51] after the assassination of Sied Nasrallah, that Hisbullah is more
[00:05:55] committed to continue the path of
[00:05:58] Said Nasrallah and all the marters who have lost
[00:06:02] their lives or sacrificed their lives in order
[00:06:06] to have this resistance keep going
[00:06:10] in the mission of liberating. the lands and the
[00:06:13] humans who live in our region, because Said Nasarlah's
[00:06:16] legacy cannot be as stricted to
[00:06:20] Lebanon or even to the to the orient. Said
[00:06:24] Nasrallah's thoughts and teachings had
[00:06:27] been crossing borders across the Islamic
[00:06:31] world as well as the whole the whole world, because
[00:06:35] there are many people around the world,
[00:06:39] especially in Latin America and Africa ' in Asia
[00:06:43] and even in Europe and North
[00:06:46] America believed in what sayidad
[00:06:50] used to say and do against the aggressors, the
[00:06:53] genocidals who committed that genocide in
[00:06:56] Gaza. So Said Nasrallah who sacrificed his own blood
[00:07:00] defending Gaza and its people and the people the
[00:07:04] whole region uh was actually uh the
[00:07:08] beacon that the free people in this
[00:07:11] world. are following up, I think that Hisbullah
[00:07:15] is um more committed now after the assassination of
[00:07:18] Sayid Nasrallah and Sayid Hashim Safien to continue
[00:07:22] the path of resistance and I think right now if
[00:07:26] you ask anyone in the streets of Beirut uh about
[00:07:30] Syd Nasrullah they would say they
[00:07:34] they would respond that we are more
[00:07:37] committed uh to uh resistance and we
[00:07:41] are going to avenge uh
[00:07:43] designers because of what they did by
[00:07:47] assassinating this historic
[00:07:49] leader. Absolutely. Thank you so much,
[00:07:53] Mr. Murad. I'm going to come back to that. Mr. Albukari, you have been
[00:07:57] patiently waiting. Um, thank you for your time tonight,
[00:08:01] and how would you assess the legacy the late
[00:08:04] leader um and secretary general of Hisbullah, Said
[00:08:08] Hasan Nasrullah? Um, do you think this is what is achieve?
[00:08:12] their objectives in any possible way, they wanted to assassinate
[00:08:16] as Mr. Murad pointed out that they wanted
[00:08:20] to decapitate the Hisbollah's
[00:08:23] movement.
[00:08:28] For 30 years Sayed Hasan Nasrullah has been fighting
[00:08:32] the Zionis and he have established that the
[00:08:36] resistance can continue and fighting the Zionis and the
[00:08:40] occupation is possible and has actually given
[00:08:43] hope to all nation in in in
[00:08:47] in in especially in the region who came under attack or
[00:08:50] occupation either from attacks from the zinest or
[00:08:54] occupation from the uh the the united state like what
[00:08:57] happened in Iraq and as well in in Afghanistan the invasion of
[00:09:00] Afghanistan and one of his main legacy uh that sayid Hasan
[00:09:04] Nasarlah did and actually this legacy which actually will
[00:09:08] hurt the United States and the zionist forever is the
[00:09:12] is is the unity the fronts, it was the first
[00:09:15] time that when Gaza came
[00:09:19] under attack and under from the Zionist, Hizbullah has
[00:09:22] responded and targeted Israel and occupied
[00:09:25] Palestine in in October 8th,
[00:09:29] so the second day after the Toufan al
[00:09:33] Aqsa, and this actually has spread, after that Yemen has
[00:09:36] joined the fight against Israel, maybe a month or a month and a half
[00:09:40] after that
[00:09:41] and as well. so this actually has united the
[00:09:45] resistance and it has made us as act act as one
[00:09:48] country, so if one country the resist will come under major
[00:09:52] attack from any coalition
[00:09:55] like the example what's happening now against Iran, I believe at one point if
[00:09:59] Iran will need the Yemenis, they will ask the Yemenies
[00:10:03] and Yemenis will not hesitate to take any action in support of
[00:10:07] Iran as well in support of Hisbollaif it will come under
[00:10:10] a massive attack and this actually this legacy and this new
[00:10:13] strategy, it was established by Sayed Hasan Nasrullah,
[00:10:17] because what the zionist has been trying to do in the last 30 or 40 years, they
[00:10:21] trying to single out countries one by one they. started
[00:10:25] with with with Gazza and after that went to Hizbollah and then Syria and then
[00:10:29] targeted Iran and and Yemen was as well on the list,
[00:10:32] that's why I think this is one the major legacy that has
[00:10:36] established and as well the sign state of Israel they
[00:10:39] they always think targeting leaders that it will
[00:10:43] actually destroy the movement or destroy the resistance they
[00:10:46] mean the they totally ignore that the resistance is an idea is a belief
[00:10:50] is a faith a faith it cannot be killed by
[00:10:54] as by the assassination of any leader, we've seen as an
[00:10:58] example in yemen after the killing of sayid hussein al
[00:11:02] hothi, was the one that established or started
[00:11:06] ansarullah movement, he wasn't saada, only had
[00:11:09] few man handful of men with him fighting, and
[00:11:12] look now we are ansarullah and we as well yemen and the yemani army that we
[00:11:16] are targeting ships far thousand of of of
[00:11:20] kilometers away from yemen, saudi ship and before we block the red
[00:11:24] sea in front. the zionist and after that we we were
[00:11:27] targeted by the prosperity guardian as we call the
[00:11:31] genocide guardian and we we f them back so i
[00:11:35] think
[00:11:35] that the unity of of the the axis of resistant is the real
[00:11:39] strength that the united state and the zionist and all the country that
[00:11:43] are loyal to those two evil the unity the front
[00:11:46] is actually what scared them and is actually what will maybe in
[00:11:50] the future force the united state out of our region and
[00:11:54] maybe inshallah in the future to liberate
[00:11:57] Palestine. Absolutely. Mr.
[00:12:00] Murad, Said Han the Hazbollah's
[00:12:04] resistance movement for more than three decades. I
[00:12:07] wanted your thoughts when it comes to the situation and what is
[00:12:11] happening today in Lebanon, how difficult it has been
[00:12:15] for Sheikh Naim Qasim to establish his own leadership
[00:12:18] style a mid all the tensions in Lebanon as of
[00:12:21] today.
[00:12:28] Well the
[00:12:30] the current secretary general of Hisbullah Sheikh Naim
[00:12:33] Qasim, he himself spoke about the um
[00:12:37] the big responsibilities that were put upon
[00:12:41] his shoulders after the assassination the two
[00:12:45] sayds hashim
[00:12:47] safien. Of course, it's a
[00:12:50] heavy responsibility for Sheikh Naim Qasim.
[00:12:55] because we are talking here about
[00:12:58] um the loss of very
[00:13:01] brilliant charismatic
[00:13:05] leader who had
[00:13:08] very esteemed
[00:13:10] and um very great
[00:13:14] experience when it comes to geopolitics in the
[00:13:17] region and the way uh wars are being fought,
[00:13:21] i don't mean here that in case sayid was still...
[00:13:25] that the situation would have been different when it comes to the confrontation
[00:13:29] between the resistance fighters and the zionist army
[00:13:33] in south lebanon. i'm just saying that
[00:13:37] it's it's important here to take into consideration that
[00:13:40] sayid had his own
[00:13:43] experience through the 32
[00:13:46] years that he
[00:13:49] was the secretary general of this
[00:13:53] resistance movement ' He had vision and I think that
[00:13:57] Sheikh Naim Qasim also has this same
[00:14:00] vision that the whole people the region
[00:14:04] should come together and coordinate
[00:14:07] together to fulfill the promise of
[00:14:10] liberating Palestine. He spoke,
[00:14:14] Sad Nasarlah spoke about this many times. I i think right
[00:14:18] now, if you take a look to Lebanon, for
[00:14:21] example, taking into consideration the political situation in
[00:14:25] Leban, the political authority, which is aligned
[00:14:28] to the Americans and the
[00:14:30] Saudis, it's not
[00:14:33] easy for the resistance movement to
[00:14:36] keep to turn it back, it's back to the
[00:14:40] internal, to try to fight the zionist aggressors
[00:14:43] and occupiers and at the same time take on
[00:14:47] daggers and knifes in the back from the political elite in
[00:14:51] Lebanon. used to with
[00:14:55] this using a
[00:14:59] nationalistic speech calling
[00:15:02] on all the parties here in Leban to come
[00:15:05] together to to to be careful the
[00:15:09] traps that the Americans and designers are trying to put
[00:15:13] inside to to
[00:15:16] project the divisions and the sectarian
[00:15:20] especially the sectarian divisions in Lebanon and across the
[00:15:24] region and I think that Sheikh Naim Qasim is keen to
[00:15:27] keep on following this legacy
[00:15:30] of Said Nasarlah when it comes to
[00:15:34] practicing politics inside Lebanon but at same
[00:15:37] time uh the main mission the resistance which is to
[00:15:41] fight and defend against the aggressors and
[00:15:45] the occupiers is still the same and it's going to be the
[00:15:49] same whether this
[00:15:53] war is going to be prolonged whether it's going to
[00:15:57] be years to fight again against the
[00:16:00] aggressors. i think the the stable
[00:16:03] politics of hizbullah when it comes to both there is...
[00:16:07] resistance, the military action and the
[00:16:09] political
[00:16:13] way of practicing politics is still the same
[00:16:17] and it's going to be the same, of course right now the situation is
[00:16:21] more regional for the resistance in Lebanon,
[00:16:25] there has to be coordination with the Iranians, with the Yemenis, with the
[00:16:29] Iraqis and across the region, with the free
[00:16:32] people and across the world, and I
[00:16:36] think the next... round the confrontation, maybe
[00:16:40] it's not going to be uh that far, but for Sheikh Naim
[00:16:44] Qasim and the leadership the resistance, this
[00:16:47] confrontation means that Hisbullah is
[00:16:51] still in the middle the war, the war hasn't ended yet,
[00:16:55] in the last speech of Said Nasarlah, he spoke about this and he said it
[00:16:59] may take days or months or even years to
[00:17:03] end this war uh by liberating hisb.
[00:17:07] Palestine Inshallah. Mr.
[00:17:10] Bukheiri, Sheikh Naim Qasim has rejected the
[00:17:14] current US mediated uh Lebanon and Israel
[00:17:18] framework seasfires since we have been saying so many
[00:17:22] the violations so far in southern Lebanon and what has been
[00:17:25] happening in the region ever since. The question that I wanted to uh
[00:17:29] put to you is, how do you analyze the
[00:17:33] Hezbulah's movements analysis the situation the
[00:17:36] region? as of
[00:17:37] now,
[00:17:43] i think we've seen that this fire, mean the zionis
[00:17:46] and the united states and as well the saudi, they always try to use the seas
[00:17:50] fire to protect themselves, saudi has been violating the seas fire that
[00:17:54] signed in 2022, many many
[00:17:57] time, and as well we've seen in in
[00:18:01] in with Iran, the seas fight was violated by the
[00:18:05] United States as well in in Lebanon. That's why I think that
[00:18:09] Hisbullah actually as well he's kind of benefiting from
[00:18:12] uh that seas fire because he needed as well
[00:18:15] sometime uh like off from the battle to to
[00:18:19] regroup and to make new plans and of course
[00:18:23] Hizbullah rule in
[00:18:24] in in the region is strong because Hisbollah is the only
[00:18:28] power or the only as a country
[00:18:32] Lebanon that actually border designed the state of Israel or occupied
[00:18:36] Palestine that's why I believe. the role of hizbullah is
[00:18:39] is is is vital any big battle that will come inshallah to
[00:18:43] against state of Israel or the liberation of of of of
[00:18:46] palestine so
[00:18:50] murad two years after uh sayid hasannas
[00:18:54] assassination Israel continues to carry out strikes in lebanon you
[00:18:58] talked about final battle between the hisbullah resistance
[00:19:01] movements and Israel do you have a timeline in your
[00:19:05] mind and how do you think that battle is going to be any different from the previous
[00:19:09] ones?
[00:19:13] um, i believe that that battle it will come, i think
[00:19:17] so sorry, but that question was for
[00:19:19] our other guess, i'm going to come back to
[00:19:21] you.
[00:19:23] okay,
[00:19:26] okay, i think that the this war is
[00:19:30] not going to end unless there's a
[00:19:34] final victorious party. here
[00:19:38] and so it's like a zero sum conflict
[00:19:41] and um as we know according to our
[00:19:45] believes that we are going to be the
[00:19:48] victorious party here because it's a
[00:19:51] divine holy promise that was
[00:19:55] written in in Quran so I think that
[00:19:58] Hisbullah knows this as as well as all the
[00:20:02] uh other members the the resistance
[00:20:06] front across the...
[00:20:09] and
[00:20:11] hizbullah isbullah's main concern right now is to rebuild
[00:20:14] its military capabilities and to
[00:20:18] prepare for the second round, it may take many
[00:20:22] rounds to reach this end, but in the end we
[00:20:26] know that the final battle is
[00:20:28] coming, and and i think this perception
[00:20:32] is not special for hizbullah, i think that the
[00:20:36] yemen the same, the Iranians believe the same, the
[00:20:40] irakis believe the same, and the Palestinians as
[00:20:43] well, because right now, if you take a look how
[00:20:47] the Americans and the Israelis are... um
[00:20:50] conducting their aggressions and wars
[00:20:53] against uh those um fronts in
[00:20:57] Lebanon, Palestine, Iran and
[00:21:00] Yemen, I think
[00:21:02] uh this pushes the the
[00:21:06] parties uh the the members the Resistance
[00:21:09] front to do the same in,
[00:21:13] I mean to unite, to coordinate and to
[00:21:17] fight in um a harmonic. uh
[00:21:21] facing the aggression, the US and Israeli aggression, i
[00:21:24] don't think that it's going to take that long,
[00:21:27] because we have seen up till now, we have seen
[00:21:31] the weakness the Americans in the region, the American posture in the
[00:21:35] region, after the failing aggression on Iran and
[00:21:39] the outcomes the war, I think it's paving the
[00:21:42] way to kicking the Americans out the region,
[00:21:46] the Americans are going to leave, and the moment the... "americans are
[00:21:50] going to leave, the the what you can say it's a
[00:21:54] prophecy, it's not a prophecy, it's a prediction
[00:21:58] that was said by said nasrullah years ago that we might
[00:22:02] not need that much of military capabilities to end
[00:22:06] designist regime, it's going to be, maybe
[00:22:10] it's going to be easier than we thought, so
[00:22:13] maybe the the hard part of it has
[00:22:17] passed and the later part is going to be..." easier
[00:22:21] for the uh all the resistance fighters in the region to
[00:22:24] end this zionist colonial terrorist
[00:22:28] regime. was saying, in some
[00:22:32] days we are going to have the also the anniversary of October the
[00:22:36] 7th, um, what happened in the year
[00:22:38] 2023. after three years of everything that we have seen
[00:22:42] in the region, how do you see and how would you analyze
[00:22:46] the situation the axes of resistance as a whole?
[00:22:54] I think what's now what we have like something new
[00:22:58] or being established in the acts of resistance is the unity the fronts and
[00:23:02] we've seen that Yemen has added a huge strength to the access of
[00:23:06] resistance something that comes I mean they didn't expect neither the
[00:23:09] zionist neither the United State or the even the Gulf state
[00:23:13] especially Saudi Arabia they thought that Yemen will continue to
[00:23:17] be like the back backyard of uh Saudi Arabia, but we've
[00:23:21] seen that now, I believe one the
[00:23:23] strongest card that the axes of
[00:23:26] resistance have at this point is is is Yemen, is Babel
[00:23:30] Mandab, and as well that yemen is have been as
[00:23:33] well putting some new effort and new strength to
[00:23:37] this of resistance, an example by targeting the
[00:23:41] zine state of Israel by forming a blow cade by fighting the United
[00:23:45] States and at the same time advancing on on on on the
[00:23:49] ground. because we see that the strength the United States is the
[00:23:52] present in the region and as well the loyalty the Saudis
[00:23:55] especially the Saudis in the region if we if Yemen will
[00:23:59] break the Saudi if Yemen will will will will
[00:24:03] and as well Iran will will force the United State to
[00:24:07] withdraw from the region then Israel actually is not
[00:24:10] is not that strong state of Israel we've seen in
[00:24:14] september October 7 what what what the resistant has
[00:24:18] done and thanks to the help from the... united state an open check they
[00:24:21] give to the zionist uh the resistant in hamas w they were not
[00:24:25] fighting Israel they were fighting Israel they were fighting united states the
[00:24:29] uk Germany and entire europe so
[00:24:33] and we've seen that still the resistance exist in Gaza they they of
[00:24:37] course they have been like we can say badly
[00:24:41] injured but we have seen them now I believe that if there is any
[00:24:44] any another battle in Gaza they will be surprised the
[00:24:48] z they will be surprised by the hammas resistant as they were surprised
[00:24:52] by hisbullah when he at one point launch hundreds of missiles against
[00:24:56] the scient state of Israel after the assassination of imam Ali Khamenei
[00:25:00] and as well using those drones Israel had no knowledge they thought
[00:25:03] that they have destroyed all the missilees they have destroyed all the weapons
[00:25:07] debot
[00:25:08] but what have brought a new some new type of weapons in in the
[00:25:11] battle that's why I believe the act of resisting even though it has lost
[00:25:15] great leaders and great commanders but still is stronger
[00:25:19] and will get stronger, we see the fight with the United States, it will force them
[00:25:23] out the region, inshallah, nicely
[00:25:26] put, activist and political commentator joining us
[00:25:30] from the capital sun, and we had Ali Murad, journalist and
[00:25:34] political commentator joining us from the capital Bayrut, thank you
[00:25:37] both, and that brings us to the end of this edition of our
[00:25:41] spotlight program, thank you for joining us and
[00:25:43] bye-bye.
[00:25:57] انا اقول له خلص سامحني صار صوت تفاهم
[00:26:00] وعلى. شو على خيمه كتلت انا
[00:26:03] وياه على خيمه انه ما قدرش هو
[00:26:07] يوفر لي خيمه كانت ايامها كان كثير غاليه كانت ب 4000 شكل و
[00:26:11] 5000 شكل كانت الخيبه ما بقدر يوفر لي اياها انه
[00:26:14] نطلع
[00:26:16] الجنوب فيها how difficult it is for
[00:26:20] palestinian men who can't even put basic food on the table
[00:26:24] on one hand there's their honor but on the other hand
[00:26:28] there's all the invisible unwaged work that women do and women are
[00:26:32] really... the pillar, you know, if the woman is doing well, the men
[00:26:36] will do
[00:26:36] well,
[00:26:56] у меня сам, само, сам этот термин религия, ассоциировался
[00:27:00] больше с христианством, с икономой. с образами, с
[00:27:03] церквями, в мечети я никогда на тот момент даже и не
[00:27:06] была,
[00:27:15] поняла, что зрители-то видят меня в хиджабе, а я
[00:27:19] самом деле не в хиджабе, в тот момент,
[00:27:23] наверное, это был переломный момент для меня, я поняла,
[00:27:27] что я не могу обманывать
[00:27:28] зрителей.