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World Jewish News
Nasrallah vows to never recognize Israel
14.03.2009
In a recorded speech aired Friday evening in Beirut in honor of Prophet Muhammad's birthday, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly rejected a preliminary US condition for talks and stressed his group would not recognize Israel "even in 1,000 years."
"Today the United States comes and says to us: You are terrorists and we are willing to forgive you for what has been, under the condition that you recognize Israel," French news agency AFP quoted Nasrallah as saying.
The Jerusalem Post could not independently confirm the report.
Nasrallah stressed that the Lebanese people are "capable of defeating this entity (Israel) and can make it disappear," and therefore, Hizbullah will not recognize Israel "not today, not tomorrow, not even in 1,000 years."
According to the French agency, after harshly rejecting Obama administration conditions for dialogue, according to which the group must denounce terror and recognize the Jewish state, Nasrallah touched on Hizbullah's ties with the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip.
He reportedly emphasized that while there was much good faith and support between the terror groups, "Hizbullah has no faction or organization in Gaza."
"Our status is that of a brother helping his brother, and we will help anything decided by the leadership of the Palestinian resistance," he concluded.
The new US administration's readiness to reach out to adversary regimes, such as Syria and Iran, has been a hallmark of its new foreign policy, but this has so far not extended to groups on its official terrorist registry, such as Hizbullah and Hamas.
A senior US official on Thursday expressed strong disagreement with the British decision to begin contacts with Hizbullah, The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
Источник: JPost.com
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