Lesson From the Lebanon: Resistance Until Victory

By Kashif Ahmed

LEBANON WAR, 1982-85: September 16th-19th marked the 36th anniversary of Sabra and Shatila.

Honouring the martyrs is as important as honouring the resistance: For we must never let the pain of this atrocity, overshadow the fact that the enemy who committed it; was crushed: Forced to flee the battlefield in disgrace & disarray.

Always remember; that despite those horrific days of cowardly Jewish terror. The allies never contemplated surrender, or considered the possibility of defeat: All Lebanon fought against the illegitimate state of Israel with full force & fury, tooth & nail to the bitter end.

Khaldea, South Lebanon, 1982: Syrian anti-tank squads stop Israel in its tracks.

Resistance fighters put Israeli Merkava tanks out of commission.

100s of Israeli invaders were buried right there, 1000s more were wounded, maimed; their criminal careers bought to a painful & unceremonious end. Jewry retreated in 1985. Hezbollah fought them all the way to South Lebanon. Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the South in 2000. Israel then invaded Lebanon again in 2006, and were defeated in 4 weeks by Hezbollah.

Jewish occupation forces in the Lebanon, 2006

There will be probably another war in Lebanon soon; but this time it will likely be fought deep behind enemy occupation lines; perhaps amongst the Jewish squatter-settlements, perhaps in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.

Lebanon 1982, 2000 and 2006; proved that the enemy has many exploitable weaknesses, that Palestine will be unconditionally liberated and that resistance is the only way forward.

Salute to Heroes: Hadi Nasrallah (1979–1997)

By Kashif Ahmed

September 12th, 1997, South Lebanon: Three Hezbollah freedom fighters were martyred (KIA) in a battle against the illegitimate state of Israel.

One of the Mujahideen was Syed Hadi Nasrallah Shaheed, eldest son of Syed Hasan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah. Hadi Nasrallah fought bravely against the Jewish occupation on the hilly terrain of Iqlim Al Tofah; he never asked for any special privileges and did his duty as any regular soldier would, he was 18.

“In the history of Lebanon, both during the Civil War and the confrontation with Israeli aggression, no one ever saw that a son of one of the leaders of the political groups and militias had been martyred. This incident prompted a wave of emotion and respect across the region: Even Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, for the first time in the history of Hezbollah, sent condolences to the Secretary General of Hezbollah and announced support for the Islamic Resistance.”

Followers of the Pure, Biography of Martyr Sayyid Hadi Nasrallah.

January-December 1999: Jewry focused its attacks on Palestinian civilians and rarely ventured out of the ‘security zone’ into Lebanon. An attempted attack by Israel results in the death of 12 IOF conscripts. Hezbollah also captures an Israeli M113 armoured personnel carrier in the aftermath of the skirmish.

May 25th, 2000: Israel retreats from its South Lebanon ‘security zone’, though some troops continue to occupy the Shebaa Farms region.

Ghassan Kanafani: Resistance Writer

By Kashif Ahmed

Richard Carleton: ‘Why not just talk?’

Ghassan Kanafani: ‘Talk to whom?’

Richard Carleton: ‘Talk to the Israeli leaders.’

Ghassan Kanafani: ‘That is kind of a conversation between the sword and the neck.’

Remembering Ghassan Kanafani Shaheed (1936-76): Legendary Palestinian revolutionary and author, pioneer of Resistance Literature, and an eloquent spokesman for the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine).

Ghassan was assassinated on July 8th, 1976; in a Jewish terror attack in Beirut, Lebanon: The Mossad car bomb killed Kanafani and his 17- year old niece, Lamis Nejed Shaheed.

The illegitimate state of Israel continued its campaign of terror inside the Lebanon for another six years: Leading into the Lebanon war (1982-85) in which Jewry suffered its first major defeat in the region.

Ghassan Kanafani wrote many important books about the Palestinian struggle–e.g.  ‘Rijal Fi-A-Shams’ (Men in the Sun), ‘Ma Tabaqqah Lakum’ (All that’s Left of You), ‘Umm Sa’ad’, ‘A’id lla Hayfa’ (Return to Haifa) among others.

He will forever be remembered as someone who upheld the Palestinian cause without compromise, and applied his academic gifts to help his people when it mattered the most.

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ADDITIONAL READING

• 35th Anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre
• Jewish Terror in Gaza: Palestinian Nurse Killed by Israeli Sniper
• The Passion of the Palestinians: Jewish Terror on Good Friday
• Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
• The British in Palestine, and the Case to Intern Col. Kemp
• Ken O’Keefe on the Palestine Great March of Return
• Israel did 9/11
• Christmas in Palestine
• Jewish Squatter Plans Palestinian Genocide

35th Anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

By Kashif Ahmed

Reham Alhelsi, Sunday, 19th September 2010, My Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians, ’28 Years Later: Sabra and Shatila Massacre’

“One September day, after playing with my siblings and friends in our land, we returned home with joy in our hearts. We were very happy and rushed to tell my parents of our plan to go on a “picnic” the following day with our friends. My father looked at us and said calmly: no, there will be no picnic tomorrow.

My parents were sitting in front of the TV, both unusually quiet, my father’s eyes looked troubled, my mother had tears in her eyes. The house was silent, dead silent, except for the screams coming from the TV. I looked at the TV and saw the same images over and over: dead bodies …. dead bodies …. dead bodies….28 years ago, I saw images of butchered Palestinians, piled up like sacks one over the other. I saw images of murdered men, women, children and elderly filling the streets. I saw women crying and shouting and cursing. I saw Sabra and Shatila.”

September 16th–18th, 1982, Lebanon

Three months after the illegitimate state of Israel had invaded Lebanon: Zionist Jews and Phalangist collaborators;  besieged Sabra and the Palestinian refugee camp in Shatila, West Beirut.

The IDF-Phalange axis had already committed many heinous crimes, but sunk to new lows with this gruesome and cowardly attack on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

Ariel Sharon (may his name be obliterated) oversaw the siege; as Israeli tanks surrounded the area to ensure no one could escape the massacre.

An unknown number of people were martyred, with figures ranging from 750 to 3,500 victims.

 

The war continued. The newly created Hezb’Allah, went on the offensive with an effective campaign of guerrilla warfare against the IDF.

Lebanese fighters also forced Israeli allied, U.S.-French forces to withdraw; leaving the Israelis stranded with a resurgent resistance eager for payback.

Summary retaliation was the order of the day; as Israeli invaders were picked off at will: IDF Merkava tanks, burnt and burning, littered the rocky Sheeba landscape. The Hezb’Allah vanguard, Palestinian partisans and allied paramilitaries, spurred on by the horrors of Sabra and Shatila, intensified their counter-assault on the gutless, and now hapless, Israeli occupation.

Israeli PM and former Stern gang terrorist, Yitzhak Shamir a.k.a. Icchak Jeziernicky, eventually acknowledged that at least 657 IDF troops had been killed by the end of the conflict, with thousands more wounded. By June 1985: Over 2,000 Jewish conscripts ran for their lives, and were airlifted out of the war zone: Other Israelis hobbled back to the South Lebanon ‘Security Zone’ in defeat & disgrace.

The resistance continued to chip away at the IOF, eventually liberating all of Lebanon in 2000. The illegitimate state of Israel invaded Lebanon again in 2006, and were crushed by Hezb’Allah in a 33 day war.