Raad: No One Presented Us with an Alternative to Resistance

The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad said Sunday there has never been an "alternative to resistance" to ward off the ‘Israeli' threats, noting that the only other "option" that was offered was to seek the help of ‘Israel's' allies and it proved its failure.

"I have yet to hear of an alternative to the resistance," Raad said during the inauguration of a Mosque in the town of Kfartibneet. "I have heard of an option - not an alternative - to protect Lebanon. The option is to depend on ‘Israel's' friends around the world to push it to stop threatening Lebanon," he explained.

"The international alliances that some people are betting on to protect Lebanon are essentially based on states that we believe to be friendly and that want eliminate a strategy to ... ensure ‘Israel's' strategic superiority in the region... No one can convince us of the usefulness of such a bet," he added.

Raad told his audience that Lebanon has been coming under pressure not to invest in its ground and fresh water resources. "'Israel' can no longer forbid us from investing in our land, water and maybe we can see our airspace anymore," he said.

Raad also reiterated the national opposition's support for "a state built on partnership not monopoly of power."