Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday called on the opponent political parties in Lebanon as well as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to start a new phase of cooperation in the face of the Zionist expansionist scheme which targets the entire region, Al-Manar reported. 

Addressing a ceremony to commemorate the first martyrdom anniversary of Commander Ibrahim Akil (Martyr Abdul Qader) and Al-Rudwan Unit commanders at Sayyed Al-Shuhada Complex in Beirut’s Dahieh, Sheikh Qassem indicated that the entire region is facing an exceptional and dangerous political turning point.

“The Israeli entity, planted in our region since the beginning of the 20th century, dug deeply with colonial and arrogant support that began with Britain and then moved to America.”

Sheikh Qassem added that this occupying entity functions as an expansionist outpost of the West, a tool of the United States, a scarecrow meant to intimidate the region, and a barrier to its independence.

Israel has reached the peak of criminality, brutality, and disregard for any humanitarian, legal, international, or human rights norms — with full, detailed backing from the American administration, he said.

“The soft war, sanctions, Madrid, and the Abraham Accords all failed to achieve the clear and quick results America and ‘Israel’ sought — hence, genocide became their chosen solution.”

Hezbollah considers that what follows the strike by the enemy entity against Qatar is different from what preceded the strike on Qatar, Sheikh Qassem underlined.

“After the strike on Qatar, the targeting now reaches the Resistance, the governments, the peoples, and every geographic and political barrier standing before ‘Greater Israel’. The goal has become Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran.”

“We must all confront this danger together — states, governments, peoples, and the Resistance — and the only path for this confrontation is unity against the common enemy within defined limits of unity,” Sheikh Qassem underscored.

Sheikh Qaassem noted that ‘Israel’ must be recognized as the danger, not the Resistance.

He called on Saudi Arabia to open a new page with the Resistance. "I call on Saudi Arabia to open a new page with the resistance, based on dialogue founded on the fact that Israel is the enemy, not the resistance; dialogue that freezes disagreements from the past."