BEIRUT:�Hezbollah�MP�Nawaf Musawi�decried Monday the delay in receiving weapons and equipment promised to the Lebanese Army, more than a year after the announcement of a $3 billion Saudi military grant.
�Why the delay in supplying the Lebanese Army with the needed weapons and appropriate ammunition when it is being exposed [to attack]?� Musawi said during a memorial service in the southern town of Abassieh.

He said that despite �bureaucratic complexity,� which has been used as a pretext for the arms shipment delay, Western countries are able to deliver weapons and ammunition to those fighting Islamist militants, just like it did when it sent weapons to�Iraq�and�Afghanistan�without passing through the bureaucratic channels.

�The Lebanese Army today cannot find who stands beside it but its people and its resistance ... that�s why everyone must be in one position,� he said, stressing that Lebanese together can �achieve victories over both enemies.�

Lebanon has yet to receive anticipated French weapons financed by a $3 billion Saudi grant announced in December 2013.

Lebanon has also held off on accepting an offer of military weapons from�Iran�after protests by Tehran's local and Western opponents.

Musawi also called on Lebanese to join forces to face the challenges that encounter their country �in the presence of a government that has no potential to meet their needs.�

Musawi said a recent Israeli airstrike that killed six Hezbollah members in Qunaitra in Syria�s�Golan Heights�was not a �spontaneous [act] as much as it symbolizes the nature of the conflict that we � as people, Army and resistance � are engaged in a battle that has been imposed on us in�Syria�and in Lebanon.�

�No one has the right anymore to be confused about the battle in Syria, which is not a conflict between the rebels and the Syrian regime or between the opposition and authorities, but what is happening there is a war waged by the enemies of the resistance who are clearly the Israelis and their takfiri allies.�

He said the Qunaitra attack, which took place in front of�U.N.�eyes, had been coordinated between takfiris and the Israeli enemy.�

�So when the takfiri groups fail [in an] attack, the Zionist enemy steps in to confront the resistance face to face, and this is what happened in Qunaitra.�

Simultaneously, Musawi said, the Lebanese Army is exposed to attacks by Islamist militants, referring to the latest battle between the military and �takfiris� on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek.

�This is why Lebanese must overcome their political divisions and their differences of opinion because the aggression against them does not exclude anyone.�

By The Daily Star

 

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