Sheikh Qassem: Resistance stays despite US plots ~ Opposition united throughout the parliamentary elections

Source: Compiled by English.hizbollah.tv, 8-11-2008
Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General has stressed that the opposition will remain united throughout Lebanon's parliamentary elections.
Sheikh Naim Qassem, who met with the Supreme Council of Imams in Africa's Ivory Coast on Friday in Bourj el-Barajneh near Beirut on Friday, said the opposition was now looking forward to the election results following the Arab-brokered deal between Lebanon's clashing political factions signed in Doha, Press TV's Beirut correspondent reported.
In May, Lebanon's political leaders assembled in the Qatari capital to sign a deal, ending street clashes which claimed over 65 lives in Beirut.
The agreement allocated 16 cabinet seats to the Western-backed parliamentary majority and 11 to the opposition led by Hizbullah.
"The Lebanese opposition is faced with US plots such as the UN Security Council resolution 1559 which seeks to end the presence of the Resistance, dominate over Lebanon, and pave the way for "Israel's" expansionistic plans" in order for the regime to reach stability against the interests of the Arab world, including Palestine and Lebanon, he warned.
Sheikh Qassem referred to Washington's 'relentless' accusations, its efforts aimed at defaming the Resistance and its use of the "Israeli" military to wage wars on Lebanon, as three major methods the US has employed to execute its plans in Lebanon.
Sheikh Qassem said the idea of sedition between the Sunnis and Shias were part of a US scheme to "attack Islamic strength that emerges to face global arrogance and the Zionist project in the region."
Qassem said that the unity of Muslims and their collective will to "strengthen the independence of their countries" had provoked a reaction by which "arrogant" parties "tried to face Muslims with military force, through the occupation of their countries, and to control [them] by interfering in their political affairs."
"We have moved beyond the strife in Lebanon, and we have proved that there is no place for the proponents of strife," he added.
What remained, Qassem concluded, was the need for "unity in the face of the Zionist project."
The Hizbullah official further expressed hope that the Doha deal was the beginning of a new chapter in the relations between the Lebanon's political groups and concluded that the upcoming elections would be the authentic reflection of the Lebanese' choice.
Hizbullah's deputy secretary general has ruled out the possibility of Sunni-Shia violence.