Hiba is encouraged this holiday season despite the failures of Lebanon's political parties, international activists, the international community " so very concerned with humanitarian values!" as she lectures her mates, and most especially the failure to date of groups here in Lebanon including the Palestine Civil Rights Campaign to achieve our goals.
This remarkable youngster idealistically reminds her coterie of likeminded teens of last week's words of Hezbollah's Secretary-General who she and her friends admire, trust, and believe.
During his International Al-Quds Day speech, Hassan Nasrallah stated that Imam Khomeini's declaration of Al-Quds Day falls within the context of a long continuum of religious and political commitment to "the sacred cause of Palestine" and that Al-Quds Day should not be simply a seasonal occasion to support the Palestinian people.
Hezbollah's Secretary-General added, "Unfortunately, today the suffering of the Palestinian people ( Hiba thinks he also means within Lebanon's camps) has become secondary and just ordinary news items in the Arab and Islamic world, even in the entire world which claims to be civilized, the news has become second row even late news. Today, the nation can do much for Palestine and its people. At the very least, the rulers can themselves stop blockading the Palestinians before asking them to assist in lifting the siege off the Palestinians. A Part of the blockade suffered by the Palestinian people is practiced by some Arab regimes. This embargo must be lifted and support must be submitted". Hiba and her friends interpreted these words to mean Hezbollah will use its power in Parliament and finally grant them the right to work in Lebanon thus delivering to them a less bleak future. Palestinians in Lebanon, and their international supporters, are acutely aware that Hezbollah still holds majority power in Parliament and will do so at least until next year's Parliamentary elections if they are even held which to this observer appears doubtful.
Hiba particularly liked Hezbollah's Secretary-General's words which she quoted: "We must help the Palestinians towards this cause to uphold the right of return and to refuse any resettlement as well as to reject assimilation in any country as is happening through their forced migration to countries in Latin America, Europe, Australia and others."
Members of Parliament who support this country granting the right to work and to own a home to Palestinians insist that if the political decision is made by the Parliamentary majority led by Hezbollah, the necessary legislation, still in the legislative hopper from two years ago, can be enacted in an afternoon.
Hiba and Hezbollah's other supporters who share Sayed Hassan Nasrallah's oft expressed views demanding basic human rights for Palestinians in Lebanon believe that the Resistance block will, on this 30th anniversary of the massacre at Sabra-Shatila, finally act on what the late Imam Khomeini declared was a central "moral, religious, and political" obligation of all people of good will.
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