Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s era

Written by Nasser Kandil,

Between our hands there is a comparison of two stages. A stage in which its titles are drawn by the new American position, it has three parts; the first part is the gradual withdrawal militarily from the region with fewer losses but with leaving the most possible mines. The second part is to tighten the financial sanctions which target all the forces and the governments which do not abide by the American policies. While the third part is the meeting of the Israeli demands and the abandonment of the policies which are based on the negotiating endeavors in search for a settlement of the Palestinian cause. And a stage which the region knew thirty years ago with the former US Republican President George H. W. Bush. That stage has contradictory parts, Madrid Peace Conference, Desert Storm with direct military presence, the imposition of a political economic plan on Lebanon that gets it out of the civil war and talks about an Israeli withdrawal according to the UN Resolutions and takes Lebanon from devastation to the civil peace and reconstruction. Therefore, which America must be considered by the resistance?

The resistance which has not changed has no doubt that it contradicts the American policies. This is clear from the establishment of this resistance and its leading party “Hezbollah”, but the resistance which is based on confronting the occupying entity grows whenever the negotiating solutions seem unsuccessful, desperate, and close, while its political environment is confined whenever the negotiating solutions seem alive and hopeful and whenever these solutions attract segments, forces, and governments that are considered by the resistance the pillar of its project or a part of it. The resistance which believes that it is the only way for liberation and restoring rights is suffocated when the illusions of adopting alternative solutions emerge and  reach the minds of people, and it is besieged when its call becomes a futile war project for the attainment of rights that can be obtained by peaceful means, and when it calls its people to suffer while they get welfare options, and thus the resistance becomes weak and the danger surrounds it when it faces an American intention of fight militarily supported by political and popular environment entitled peace and prosperity. This was when America was leading the world alone as in the early 1990s.

The Us President who tells the Arabs that there is no settlement but the humiliated surrender to the Israeli conditions and the complete abandonment of land and rights and who only promises of sanctions, siege, and impoverishment, and who escapes with his armies from any confrontation as the President Donald Trump gives more sources of power to the resistance and more followers and advocates. Now this is the situation of the Palestinian authority which does not have but to express the fall of negotiation as many Arab government which fought to overthrow Syria and fear from the American recognition of the annexation of Golan to Israel. the US President who seems strong aggressive attacker is the example of the US president who is suitable for the resistance and its project, because he thwarts all the illusions and puts the nations and the rulers in front of one truth, while his negotiating predecessor seems flexible and weaver, this example forms a threat against the resistance and its project, because he paves the way for occupation and hegemony through settlements and the negotiating solutions.

Today the resistance is stronger and most experienced than it was thirty years ago, its followers and allies have tested the credibility of their confidence in it, while America is much weaker than before, the world changes and the unilateralism has fallen, Russia is present, Israel has been defeated several times, America came with its wars, allies, and means which have been fallen. Today, the resistance which succeeded thirty years ago in overcoming the most dangerous stages is celebrating the leadership today. The deviation of Washington from the option of the negotiating solutions, and turning it from humiliating subordination to Israel to the policy of premeditation and intention, siege, and its military escape beyond the seas is the tripartite that foreshadows of the era of the resistance which will spread in Golan,  Galilee, and Jerusalem and foreshadows of many changes that will affect the regimes in favor of new political environment that embraces the resistance and deviates normalization and subordination. This is the logic of the convergence between the divine facts and the historical facts which the resistance is preoccupied with.

The words of Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah are the words of a person who is aware of the sources of power, the laws of war and the game of time. The American time is fading and the time of resistance is flourishing. The one who knows how he defeated the most severe and dangerous version of the American project in the early 1990s knows how to deal with the hygienic version of it.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,