Lebanese Newspapers Opinions and Analysis Following Sayyed Nasrallahs Press Conference

Following the press conference in which Hizbullah Secretary General delivered a speech Thursday night, op-eds and articles of major Lebanese newspapers on Friday constituted readings and analysis of the speech in which Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that Prime Minister Saad Hariri informed him that the international court's indictment that will be issued sometime soon, with implicate "undisciplined Hizbullah members", something that Sayyed Nasrallah firmly rejected.

Starting with As-Safir newspaper, it pointed that Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the Lebanese people in a very calm and clear manner, yet strong in its context.

According to the daily, Sayyed Nasrallah called on the Lebanese to be aware of the game of the nations with all its regional and domestic intersections which tried to take Lebanon hostage of bigger calculations, and almost took the country from its regional position to an opposite location and from internal stability to civil war. He warned that there are those who want to repeat the game that was failed owing to the perseverance of the resistance, the opposition forces, and Syria but this time under new titles.

The daily said that the current phase Lebanon is passing through is a very sensitive, delicate and complicated phase, which imposed on Sayyed Nasrallah to single out a large portion of his speech to the so called March 14 audience which was emotionally driven by its leadership, after the assassination of martyr Rafiq Hariri, to raise anti-Syria slogans; whereas five years later, it turned out to be that Syria was the main factor for a stable Lebanon on both political and security levels.

"Sayyed Nasrallah's positions in his press conference did not ease down the tense reality that emerged following his speech last Thursday, but in fact, it did not aggravate it as well," said An-Nahar newspaper.

The daily expected that Sayyed Nasrallah's "lengthy try of March 14 leaderships and all the previous phase since 2005" will be followed by a new chapter of hot campaigns and dispute.

According to An-Nahar, what caught the attention of the commentators in Sayyed Nasrallah's new positions was the tone of his decisive tone particularly when he tackled the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's expected indictment "that was already inked and now awaits the time of issuance."

Sayyed Nasrallah's information and stances, the daily continued, were direct messages to three fundamental parties: Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the March 14 leadership, and Syria and its allies as he stressed Syria was no longer the target but the resistance is so, exclusively.

"Indications of a preemptive stage-by-stage attack by Hezbollah lay stress on the party's readiness to go as far as possible in facing attempts to aim at the idea of the resistance through demonizing its leaders and its arms. This is why Hezbollah is addressing the battle of the STL as life-or-death battle," As-Safir's Imad Marmal wrote.

"Lebanon will be hit by turmoil when Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare issues his findings next fall," An-Nahar quoted a "high-ranking UN official in New York" on condition of anonymity Friday.