NNA – Caretaker Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Wissam Al-Murtada, participated this afternoon in a political meeting on the occasion of International Quds Day, which was held by Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, at the new headquarters of the Iranian embassy in the Beirut-Golf area.

In his delivered speech on the occasion, Al-Murtada hailed the Saudi-Iranian agreement, considering that "everyone must realize the importance of unity in the battle of liberation: liberating the land from usurpers and liberating people from the spirit of rivalries that only produce extremism, which in turn leads to ruin, loss of the future and ensuring the rooting of the usurper entity."

Al-Murtada considered that the differences of the peoples of the region and the division between their countries is a reassurance for Israel and the first wall that protects it more than the concrete wall of isolation it has built across occupied Palestine, adding that the Israeli enemy is diligently spreading the factors of fragmentation and causes of wars to ensure that its violation of the rights of the people of the land continues. He warned of the Israeli danger to the continued existence of the Lebanese entity and the Lebanese formula, noting that Lebanon “represents the opposite image of the occupation entity that is based on racism and the rejection of the other, leading even to his killing and to genocide...”

“Therefore, the Zionists always seek to destroy the Lebanese formula that exposes the essence of their abhorrent entity,” Al-Murtada asserted.

He also paid tribute to the Palestinian people “who have proven that the usurpation of the land is a continuous crime that is not subject to the passage of time,” and that “patriotism is an inherent feature of its historical identity.”

“From here, we can confirm that history, in its movement within the eternal laws of nature, will inevitably lead to the end of the occupation,” Al-Murtada underlined.

=========R.Sh.