“Egypt’s Shi’ization conspiracy”“For some to consider that Sayyed Nasrallah’s dispatch of some of his partisans to Egypt to smuggle arms to the Mujahideen in the Gaza Strip to be a violation of Egyptian sovereignty is completely legitimate and understandable. However, for them to attack the man by using a vile language is not and is in itself a violation of all the customs, the teachings of our holy religion and our Arab cultural heritage... When responding to the Egyptian accusations saying that he and his party were trying to destabilize Egypt’s domestic situation, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was extremely calm and polite and did not say one word that was out of place.
“He was honest and transparent when he recognized that Sami Chehab was a member of Hezbollah and that he went to Egypt to smuggle arms to the blockaded Mujahideen in the Gaza Strip, stating that this was an honorable mission that brought whoever carried it closer to Allah. This Egyptian official media level played a key role in the deterioration of Egypt’s status and its loss of the initiative power it enjoyed back when its media enjoyed nationalism and was headed by the best professors in the field...
“Therefore, the fierce unilateral battle currently being waged by the Egyptian government and its men in the media and in the authority has nothing to do with Hezbollah’s cell, considering that the apprehension of this cell was hideously exploited to confront the “culture of the resistance” and prevent it from reaching Egypt, or rather being revived in it, after its first signs have emerged with the attacks against Israeli tourists in northern Sinai, Khan al-Khalil, Loqsor and the Sayyed Hussein neighborhood. Today, we are facing two schools. One is raising the banner of the confrontation against the Israeli project and supporting the blockaded and the starving in the Gaza Strip and another one doing the complete opposite and exploiting all its capacities to deter the Arab resistance project by all means and grow closer to the United States, Israel and some other Western countries...
“The Egyptian regime is waging this campaign to get the people to hate Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah for three reasons: Firstly because Sayyed Nasrallah’s popularity in Egypt was growing at a high pace according to official polls, secondly because Hezbollah beat Israeli twice and vanquished its invincible army and thirdly to justify any Egyptian “official” alliance with Israel against Iran in the future, in case the first were to announce war on the second under the pretext of destroying the Iranian nuclear program. For the past forty years, America did not give Egypt $60 billion to alleviate the suffering of its people, but to enhance its security and military capacities to protect Israel and its border and annihilate the culture of the resistance...
“The leader of Hezbollah’s cell, Sami Chehab, did not violate Egypt’s sovereignty. He merely wanted to break an unfair blockade imposed on his brothers and carry out an honorable mission by delivering arms to them so that they can protect themselves. The smuggling of arms through the Rafah tunnels was not invented by this young man or his party, considering that the smuggling was going on before his arrest and will proceed after it... On the other hand, it would be very naïve to say that this 25-year old man wanted to convert the Egyptian people to Shi’ism. How can he do that at his age? How can he do it while he barely knows the teachings of his sect? How can he get others to adopt it? This accusation belittled Egypt’s status, and constituted an insult to the Egyptian people and their rooted creed.
“What we and the Egyptian people - not the regime - should be ashamed of, is seeing the Shi’i Hezbollah rushing to support his Sunni brothers in the Strip, while the Sunni Sheikhs in the blessed Egypt (apart from the Muslim Brotherhood) and in other countries are standing by and watching the blockade and extermination war to which one and a half million Sunnis are being subjected... We are facing an American-Israeli plan aiming at triggering sectarian war between the Sunnis and the Shi’is in the region, in order to mobilize the Arabs behind any expected Israeli attack against Iran and Syria, and then against Hamas and Hezbollah.
“This is why the president of the Hebrew state, Shimon Peres, did not hesitate to express how pleased he was by the growing Egyptian official dispute with Hezbollah. We only hope that the nationalistic Egyptian people will not fall in this trap, toward which they are being led by some of their media outlets.” - Al-Quds al-Arabi, United Kingdom
