Senior Hezbollah official speaks out - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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When it comes to being prepared to confront the threats and aggressions of the Israeli enemy, this falls outside the scope of calculations for intervention in other places. This preparation has its own equipment, training, provisions, weapons and ammunition. It has its own allocations that continue night and day. We monitor any movement the enemy makes at all times, because the primary enemy that we are concerned with confronting is the Israeli enemy. All that remains [is the potential for] repercussions and machinations that may serve the Israeli enemy, and which may encourage them to interfere or incite to widen their turf. But the resistance’s main action is to confront the Israeli enemy. This matter is taken into consideration, thus explaining the interventions we are witnessing. We joke with each other, saying that anyone who works on something not involved in the direct confrontation with Israel is an apprentice. The enemy knows that the experience gained by the resistance members via their participation in Syria, for example, has doubled the resistance’s horizons — not only on the geographical level, but in terms of fighting, the quality of weapons and the means of tactical combat they have learned. Perhaps this makes the enemy more afraid to make a stupid move.
Al-Monitor: Is Hezbollah prepared for a full-scale war under the current circumstances?
Raad: It is certainly ready for war, even if it does not wish for one.
Al-Monitor: Today, Lebanon is without a president, the parliamentary council has extended its term and there is a caretaker government. When will a president be elected for the country?
Raad: We have a candidate we support, and I think that the country will not find anyone better than our candidate, Gen. Michel Aoun. Anyone who obstructs Aoun’s election is the one who does not want a president for the country. I think that the main party hindering Aoun’s election is the Christian bloc that opposes Aoun, weakening the Christians’ position in power and subjecting the country to an open-ended presidential crisis, proceeding according to the Lebanese ally, who waits for the regional decision.
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