BEIRUT: Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Musawi has called on politicians to join ranks in combating terrorism, claiming that the majority of the March 14 supporters approved of Hezbollah’s intervention in Syria to prevent jihadists from entering Lebanon.
Speaking at the memorial ceremony of a Hezbollah fighter killed in Syria, Musawi said most Lebanese were aware of the dangers posed by jihadi groups, “with the exception of a category of (Sunni) hardliners who waged a campaign against Hezbollah even before it intervened in Syria.”
“We need to differentiate between March 14 politicians, who insist on antagonizing Hezbollah, and members of their popular base, who feel deep down inside that they owe the party and its martyrs for the relative security in which they are living now because they curbed the expansion of takfiri groups,” Musawi said.
Rejecting accusations that Hezbollah’s military interference in Syria drew jihadi attacks on Lebanon, Musawi said: “The international consensus on confronting takfiri groups, is solid evidence that the choice we made two years ago (to intervene in Syria) was the right one.”
Musawi blasted Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi from the March 14 Future Movement, accusing him of belittling the attack waged by ISIS and Nusra Front militants against the Army in the border town of Arsal in which over 30 security personnel were captured last August.
Rifi, whose party supports the Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad, has deplored the hostage crisis as a “black spot” of the Syrian uprising.
“It is not a black spot, but a blatant aggression against the Lebanese Army, and the kidnapping is an attack on the nation and all the Lebanese people (regardless of their affiliations),” Musawi said, accusing Rifi of having facilitated the entry of arms and jihadi fighters from Lebanon to Syria when he headed the Internal Security Forces during the first two years of the Syrian rebellion.
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