Fadlullah's communiqué regarding Winograd commission's report

The Religious Authority, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, released a statement in which he dealt with Winograd commission's report on the July war. H.E. said:

As we follow up what the enemy's entity is issuing, we should not forget that what had led to these results that showed the Israeli failure, is the Resistance's courage that is represented by the local defeats that hit the enemy consecutively all through the last July war. That is because the Resistance's capability to torment the enemy continuously and progressively in addition to the Mujahideen's patience despite the violent battles and the long time, is what made the victory, through drawing the difference between the man of the message and the cause and the man who relies on the machine with its lethal technologies.

H.E. added: The Winograd report indirectly shows that the Israeli failure in its handling of the last summer's war could have inflicted a big catastrophe on the enemy were it not for the great international support that worked on protecting the Zionist entity, such as the Resolution 1701 and other actions that were taken by the Security Council to give Israel political guarantees and veil the mass of the Israeli human and military losses.

The Israeli failure and the internal Israeli changes could have been used as a strategic weapon in the hand of the Arabs in order to get rid – at least – of the American pressures and preserve the Arab dignity. But it is astonishing that most of the Arabs were afraid of the Resistance's victory. Thus, they rushed to prevent it from affecting their peoples. They also hastened to extend their hands to the Israeli enemy so that the Israeli failure would not reveal their weakness.

The Sayyed also said: Despite all what has been achieved, we should realize that the enemy's failure must not make us feel that the enemy has been fallen by a coup de grace or that it can no longer rebuild its army and launch a new offensive on Lebanon. We have to know that the enemy's entity represents a state of institutions that works in no time on correcting its faults, amending its plans and solving its problems to launch new offensive rounds. For that reason, all the Lebanese, especially the Resistance, should be always ready to face the enemy's plans and prepare counter ones. Besides, all those who seek to preserve Lebanon's sovereignty and independence, should not instigate negative talk about the resistance's weapons – while they are watching the almost daily violations of the Lebanese airspace – because the Resistance's weapons have a national job that is essential in the next stage. Moreover, those who have comments on the political or non political performance of the Resistance, should not present their comments except within the internal national frames that protect the country and preserve the future of the nation and its generations.

In addition, it was also proved to all people that Lebanon that is strong in its resistance can be more powerful in its unity that can be reestablished in the light of many internal facts and through the thunderous Israeli recognition of the failure that is matched only by the American failure in the region.

In the end, The Sayyed said: At the same time, we urge all people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Lebanon, to benefit from the Israeli lesson and to learn from the enemy how it works on protecting its entity internally through the mechanisms that force the biggest official in the state to be responsible for his mistakes, pay the price before his people and yield to the judge whom he had appointed and who did not refrain from describing him as an inexperienced, negligent and a failing prime minister. Besides, the judge also accused the Israeli government as responsible for the defeat.

All that is considered as a message to our countries, peoples and judges: to learn from our enemies and understand that the judicial institution represents the well-fortified tower of any state on condition that it does not submit to politicians… Accordingly, we call upon the judges in Lebanon to be responsible and faithful in preserving the state, and not to be sincere to this faction or that confessional leadership, nor to follow this or that official in the mazes of the sectarian regime in which the institutions are being destroyed for the interest of some persons or sects.