Loyalty to the Resistance Parliamentary bloc minister said on Friday that whether or not they have acquired scud missiles is none of Israel's business.
Al Manar TV, 16 April 2010
Minister Hussein Haj Hassan says the group was always arming and preparing itself but he refused to confirm or deny Israeli allegations that the Lebanese resistance group has acquired Scud missiles.
Israeli president Shimon Peres earlier this week directly accused Damascus of providing the scud missiles, a charge Syria denied.
The U.S. State Department responded to the allegations on Wednesday by saying that if they were true, "it would put Lebanon at a significant risk."
Haj Hassan, meanwhile, told Al-Manar TV that since Israel possessed all kinds of weapons, it's only natural for Lebanon to have the means to defend itself against an Israeli attack.
On Tuesday, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Al-Aam reported that Syria had shipped ballistic Scud missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The White House said it has raised concerns with Syria about the report.
Israeli officials say the introduction of Scuds could alter the strategic balance with Hezbollah. Scud missiles have several times the range and explosive firepower of Katyusha rockets and would pose a much more serious threat.
In Washington, the Syrian Embassy dismissed the allegations of shipping scud missiles and accused Israel of trying to divert attention from questions about Israel's nuclear program. Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear arms, though it does not confirm nor deny this.
The cowardly Zionist regime shits itself at the prospect of the "strategic balance" tilting ever-so-slightly in Hezbollah's favour, whining like bitches despite the fact that it's military is one of the most advanced in the world thanks to U.S. military aid and arms shipments, and its opponent is only a tiny resistance group with no airforce, navy, tanks or nukes. And they're the ones causing shit, constantly provoking Hezbollah and routinely violating Lebanese airspace. Only yesterday they put the Lebanese army on alert with their latest provocation.
The Syrians owe the Zionists no explanation for these rumors. If the Zionists insist on a military policy of "ambiguity", the Syrians have every right to it too, and every right to arm their allies against a dangerously unstable and aggressive enemy.