BEIRUT (Dispatches) – A senior official with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has slammed as “treasonous” the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime, saying Lebanon will never engage in such an act.
“The normalization of relations with the Zionist regime is treason, and resistance and the use of weapons and missiles will continue until the liberation of Al-Quds,” Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said at a ceremony in southern Lebanon.
“Lebanon will not fall in the face of foreign threats and will remain a home for resistance,” Safieddine said, adding, “Lebanon will not be torn apart; Lebanon will not be among the compromisers and the countries that surrendered.”
The high-ranking official stressed that forty years into its formation, Hezbollah has become much stronger and still opposes the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
Back in 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed United States-brokered agreements with the regime to normalize their ties with the regime. Some other regional states, namely Sudan and Morocco, followed suit soon afterward.
The so-called Abraham accords have sparked widespread condemnations from the Palestinians as well as nations and human rights advocates across the globe, especially within the Muslim world.
Other regional countries have also been fraternizing with the occupying regime, including Saudi Arabia, which received a visit by the regime’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2020.
Last month, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Arab governments that chose to normalize relations with the Zionist regime against the will of their people will end up being exploited by the occupying regime.
In the meantime, the occupying regime has continued to press ahead with building more illegal settlements in light of the U.S.-brokered normalization deals.
Meanwhile, a group of Lebanese religious scholars have stressed Beirut’s fierce opposition to any normalization of diplomatic relations with the occupying regime.
Beirut Muslim Scholars Association (BMSA), in a statement released on Sunday evening, said there is neither a humanitarian nor a religious connection between Lebanon and the occupying Tel Aviv regime under any pretext, and the latter is described as the enemy according to Lebanon’s Constitution.
The statement lamented that there are certain political currents and figures in Lebanon that are pushing to violate the constitution and are preparing the ground for the normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.