#MwangoSpaces: Growing Towards Customer Excellence

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The Twitter Space #MwangoSpaces: Growing Towards Customer Excellence hosted by MwangoCapital. Delve into the world of marketing strategies aimed at achieving customer excellence in East Africa markets. From customer-centric approaches to data-driven decision-making, the space explores the importance of innovation, market trends, and customer engagement. Discover key insights on the significance of efficient communication, building strong relationships, and tailoring solutions to diverse customer needs. Explore how businesses can sustain growth by prioritizing customer satisfaction and adapting to dynamic market landscapes. Join the conversation to unlock strategies for driving success in the competitive realm of marketing in East Africa.

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Questions

Q: How important is customer-centricity for business success?
A: Customer-centric approaches are vital for understanding and meeting customer needs, which leads to improved satisfaction and loyalty.

Q: Why is financial research crucial in market analysis?
A: Financial research provides valuable insights into market dynamics, trends, and investment opportunities, enhancing decision-making processes.

Q: What role does efficient communication play in achieving customer excellence?
A: Effective communication fosters transparency, trust, and better relationships with customers, contributing to overall excellence.

Q: How can businesses adapt to diverse customer needs in East Africa markets?
A: Customized solutions tailored to the specific requirements of diverse customers enable businesses to address unique challenges and opportunities effectively.

Q: Why is data-driven market strategy essential for growth?
A: Data-driven insights offer businesses a competitive advantage by enabling informed decision-making and targeted approaches to market challenges.

Q: What are key factors to consider for sustainable growth in dynamic markets?
A: Adapting to market trends, prioritizing customer satisfaction, and building strong relationships are crucial elements for sustainable growth in evolving markets.

Q: How can businesses maintain customer loyalty in competitive environments?
A: Consistent delivery of quality service, personalized experiences, and responsive support are key factors in fostering customer loyalty amidst competition.

Q: In what ways can innovation drive customer excellence?
A: Innovation allows businesses to create unique value propositions, enhance customer experiences, and stay ahead in the market by offering solutions that address evolving needs.

Q: Why is market research important in understanding regional market dynamics?
A: Market research helps businesses grasp the nuances of regional markets, identify growth opportunities, and tailor strategies to meet the specific demands of local consumers.

Q: How can businesses build sustainable growth strategies in diverse markets?
A: By understanding market dynamics, adapting to changing trends, and focusing on customer needs, businesses can create sustainable growth strategies that withstand market fluctuations.

Highlights

Time: 00:15:42
Customer-Centric Approaches Discussing the significance of centering business strategies around customer needs for sustainable growth.

Time: 00:25:19
Data-Driven Decision Making Exploring how data insights drive informed decisions and effective market strategies.

Time: 00:35:57
Building Strong Customer Relationships Emphasizing the importance of nurturing long-term customer relationships for business success.

Time: 00:45:33
Innovative Solutions for Customer Engagement Exploring innovative tactics to engage customers effectively and enhance overall experience.

Time: 00:55:10
Adapting to Market Trends Analyzing the significance of staying abreast of market trends and adjusting strategies accordingly.

Time: 01:05:48
Customized Approaches for Diverse Customers Discussing the benefits of tailoring solutions to meet the diverse needs of customers in East Africa markets.

Time: 01:15:29
Prioritizing Customer Satisfaction Highlighting the role of customer satisfaction as a key driver of loyalty and repeat business.

Time: 01:25:17
Strategies for Sustainable Growth Exploring tactics to ensure sustainable growth in dynamic and competitive market landscapes.

Time: 01:35:40
Effective Communication with Customers Underlining the importance of transparent and efficient communication in fostering strong customer relationships.

Time: 01:45:55
Innovation for Market Leadership Examining the role of innovation in setting businesses apart in the market and driving customer excellence.

Key Takeaways

• Emphasizing customer-centric approaches for business success.
• Utilizing financial research and market analysis to drive growth.
• The importance of efficient customer communication and engagement.
• Adopting innovative strategies to achieve customer excellence.
• Leveraging data-driven insights for market strategies.
• Understanding the unique dynamics of East Africa markets.
• Implementing customized solutions for diverse customer needs.
• Prioritizing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Adapting to market trends for sustainable growth.
• Building strong customer relationships for long-term success.

Behind the Mic

Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

Hello, everyone. Hello, Marwa. Thank you for joining. Hello first quad. Hello, Marwa. Thank you so much for allowing us to have this opportunity to speak with you. Thank you for that. My absolute pleasure. Thank you for having me. We're going to start in 30 seconds to 1 minute maximum. I'll just give it a few seconds just to allow more people to join for the people in the space. If you can share the space, that would definitely be appreciated. If you don't know how to share the space, bottom right corner, press on the purple pill and then the retweet button. Okay, so very good tool for now. If you didn't share the space, please make sure to share it. We are going to be taking questions from you guys if I did not bring you up, because I will not be able to bring everyone up. If I did not bring you up, please write your question in the chat. I will definitely check the replies and see if there is time to ask Marwa if she has time. Definitely later on. But first of all, I'd like to welcome you, Marwa, and thank you for joining us. It's definitely appreciated to have you here and I just want to introduce you to everyone in case anyone is not aware about your experience as a journalist in Lebanon, because most of the audience is western or they didn't see press tv or RT. So first of all, would you like to go ahead?

Marwa's Introduction

Yeah, absolutely. Marwa is an esteemed journalist and political commentator from the south of Lebanon. And as a true southern Lebanese, she doesn't hold her tongue to speak the truth. She's been attacked a lot recently by the Zionists and their proxies and she handled it with such a grace, she has. She hosts a show on press tv, also on media stream and on expose, which you can find in her bio. So I'm very honored and privileged to have this conversation. Thank you guys. It's an honor to be here. Thank you for the introduction. I'd like to add also that I am first and foremost the mother of three beautiful young girls from South Lebanon. They are the grandchildren of a martyr who was killed by Zionist Israel. And I'm also an assistant professor in media studies and management at Al Ma'arif University and the Lebanese International University. And in my whatever left time, I have the shows on press tv, expose and Midi stream. Midi stream is geopolitics and expose is from its name exposing western mainstream media, especially after the Alexa flood operation. It's a pleasure to be here and any questions it's my pleasure to answer, I have, I saw in like a few minutes ago someone who I had blocked. I have no idea if, look, I block a lot of people. I'm sorry if I blocked you. I don't know why, but there must have been a reason at that time. So sorry for that. And I'm ready for your questions.

Discussion on Hezbollah

Thank you so much, Marwa. Much appreciated. Actually, I'll start with something that's pretty basic just to get your understanding, because this is an idea that the west has. No matter how much we speak about it, they still have this sort of perspective. Like, what's your view on Hezbollah as a resistance faction in Lebanon, defending Lebanon? What's your view on them and how they operate? Because definitely we've seen the west that they always try to vilify any resistance, indigenous resistance group that's fighting for their land. They're fighting for the right to exist and fighting the occupier, and they tend to label them as terrorists. So what's your view on Hezbollah in general? Well, that's a very good question if, especially if you're a westerner and you really don't know what Hezbollah is, I'll say it's exactly what the Cuban revolution is, what the Islamic revolution in Iran is, what Jamal Abdul Nasser was in Egypt, what Bashar al Assad was and still is in Syria. It is basically an anti-imperial, anti-colonialist group of people who are natives to Lebanon, who were founded basically to uproot the occupation from Lebanon that started after the invasion of Lebanon of Beirut in 1982.

Historical Context of Hezbollah

But it started a bit before that because Zionist Israel had started attacking Lebanon ever since it was so-called founded by the western colonial empires from the forties, the thirties and forties. Lebanon was being attacked several times by Zionist Israel. There were multiple massacres that hit south Lebanon specifically and the Beqah region especially the West Beqah in the sixties and seventies. And that's where my children lost their grandfather in the late seventies because he was part, not over resistance. He was part of the actual Lebanese army defending his hometown of Khayyam from south Lebanon, as everyone already knows. I keep talking about that, but he was killed in 77 by Zionist Israel because he was defending his land as a member of the army. Later on, Hezbollah was founded by the people who found that everyone else had just left them to their destiny, did not offer any help. So they started in a very small part of West Beirut called the Fathallah street. It was a couple of young men, and Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah was part of those young men at that time. And they decided that they need to fend off this occupation, to defend their people, to reclaim their land by fighting Zionist Israel, as any native should, against any colonial power.

Hezbollah's Growth and Challenges

And they started in the eighties and they started to grow. At the beginning, it had some setbacks, and it's majorly something, internal politics in Lebanon, because it was not always roses, was guns, but not always roses with Hezbollah, because there was a shift in the leadership after the first secretary general, who later basically became a butcher and his name was Tfaihli. Tfaeli was then pushed back by Hezbollah, especially after the. They met with the revolutionary leaders in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they decided that they need to stop the bloodshed internally and focus on the occupation. And hence, I. We had the emergence of the first secretary general, Sayyid Abbas al Musawi, who was assassinated by Hezbollah. Said Abbas was from the Biqah region, Hiramil, and he was assassinated by Zionist Israel in 1992 when he was attending a funeral of one of the leaders of the resistance. Back then, Sheikh Raghap Harb, who was in Nabothiyyah in south Lebanon, was one of the very staunch, not only supporters, but also leaders of the resistance in the area, who were very resilient in standing in the face of the occupation.

Continued Struggles and Liberation

But he was assassinated by the Israelis. So Sayyid Abbas Mossawi was visiting the town to take part in the funeral procession, and he was assassinated. Hence, after that, Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah was unanimously voted by the council, by the political council of Hezbollah, and he was voted as the secretary general. Fast forward eight years later, 2000, and Syed Hassan Nasrallah, with his leadership, with his iconic leadership, to take Hezbollah into another level, which is liberating south Lebanon and liberating the Titanis, because at that time, Zionist Israel had occupied a large swath of the southern Lebanese parts of Lebanon up until the Litany river, which they are trying to do again now, which they also tried in 2006, and they failed on both accounts. But Hezbollah, the resistance in Lebanon, who was getting direct help from the know-how and the weapons from Iran, was capable of liberating the land and the detainees in 2000. And just give me just a second, because my kids are leaving the car. I just want to make sure that they're okay. I'm sorry. This is a war.

The Ongoing Conflict

Okay. Thank you. Sorry for that. So we're also. So we're talking about how Sayyid Hassan and Nasrallah was able to take Hezbollah into victory and liberation. And by the way, I had to open the window of the car. So now you will hear the drone that never leaves our sky, which is basically, it turns any sane person into a psychopath. But Alhamdulillah, that we are pious people and we know patients. So I'm sorry if you're going to hear the drone anyways. So Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah was capable of maintaining that victory and then standing in the face of another aggression by Zionist Israel in the year 2006. Now, if you're hearing what I'm saying, and you're saying, okay, well, Lebanon was liberated, then why was the animosity still there? Well, you need to ask the occupiers who were making sure that they are on top of everything happening in Lebanon, whether through meddling in the Lebanese internal affairs or trying to create some chaos within the community of Hezbollah, or trying to break and fracture the Muslim community in Lebanon between Sunnis and Shias and between Muslims and Christians themselves.

The 2006 War and Resistance

You all must have heard at one point in your life about the political tension that usually takes place in Lebanon. But you had the resistance focused on Zionist Israel, and Zionist Israel also focused on Hezbollah, hence the 2006 war, which, if you watch and read mainstream media, especially in the west, you'll hear them say that Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, hence why the war started. Actually, Hezbollah kidnapped those two soldiers because Zionist Israel had hundreds of Lebanese detainees in their detention centers still. So even after the liberation, they took away a lot of the people who were in the Lebanese detention centers and moved them into occupied Palestinian territories. So Hezbollah still had Lebanese people to liberate. So they decided to kidnap those soldiers to do a swap. They kidnapped soldiers. They did not kidnap settlers or what do you call as civilians, the same way that Zionist Israel did.

Legal justifications and Responses

So it was actually, according to international law, was abiding by international law and by the UN charter that as a resistance, it is defending its people and its land and trying to liberate its people. And fast forward to the investigation commission, a committee. That happened after the 2006 war. It happens, surprise, that Zionist Israel was actually preparing that year an attack on Lebanon. But the kidnapping of the soldiers made Zionist Israel just bring forward instead of delaying or staying on a schedule. And hence the July war happened. So they were actually preparing a war with us, exactly like what happened the second week of September. Because the second week of September of this year, September 17 and 18, the entire world was witnessing the scandal of the pagers terrorist attack and the walkie-talkie terrorist attacks. And when investigations took place, it was found that Zionist Israel has rigged those devices and sent them to Lebanon as early as 2022, that's one year before Al Aqsa flood operation.

Hezbollah's Role in Regional Conflicts

That's one year before Hezbollah actually opened a support front to support Gaza in south Lebanon. So they were preparing for an attack to begin with. Now, between 2006 and 2023, Hezbollah was also involved in the global war against Syria. Some might call it a civil war. It was not. You are not here. It was not civil war. It was an 82 states run by the United States of America funding, aiding, abating, and arming and trainings terrorists from all across the globe. So if you call that a civil war, I'm going to call you an idiot. I'm sorry. So I'm not talking to anyone specific. I'm just being general here. And excuse my blunt remarks, because I really don't care. I could die any moment. So I'm going to be myself. Hezbollah was involved in the global war in Syria, and it fended off terrorism that actually started spilling over into Lebanon because I myself am a survivor of one of the Daesh terrorist attacks in south Lebanon.

Personal Experience of Conflict

When I just had my second baby, I had two babies in two car seats in the car. One is two years old and the other is six months old. And I was going back home, and the road that I was taking was struck by a twin terrorist bomb attack. And it was Hezbollah who fended off that danger from me and my children. It was Hezbollah who took Nusra and ISIS out of the borders between Lebanon and Syria. It was Hezbollah that helped liberate Christian towns and cities in Syria, like Madaya and Saqailabiyyah. It was Hezbollah that allowed the Christians in the north and the northeastern part of Lebanon to thrive and not allow Daesh to enter and either kill them or take them as tabaya or detainees. It was Hezbollah who rid Lebanon from this bloodshed. And then Al Aqsa flood. What I call the most glorious day in the Palestinian struggle for liberation is October 7, Al Aqsa flood operation. You might agree, you might not agree. I couldn't care less. This is what I think as a native who has been suffering from occupation, from colonialism, and who have been watching Palestine being taken like it is being bit off one bite at a time since 1936.

Defending Rights and Historical Injustice

So I'm sorry. Why would you, as a westerner, have a right to arm yourself and defend your territory if someone attacks your mailbox outside your home? But we as natives are not allowed to defend ourselves and fight back the same way that we are fought because we've been under occupation for more than 75 years. I really don't understand why you are allowed to do that, but I'm not allowed to do that. So Hezbollah decided on day two and that which is October 8, which is like today, which means that the last time that I was in my house in Khyem in south Lebanon, Washington, a year minus two weeks, because last year, like today, I woke up in the morning at 06:45 a.m. and I heard the first couple of bombs that were launched by the Islamic resistance in Lebanon. Hezbollah in support of Gaza. Literally, day two of the war, I was at home, and my home is right on the border with occupied Palestine and occupied Golan Heights.

Observing the Current Situation

And I was watching the hills being bombed by the resistance. And were proud that we were the first to support Gaza. And by the way, we are also. Our resistance was also operating according to international law, because according to international law, we have every right to liberate our land. And Hezbollah was actually bombing the Kfar Shuba occupied hills and the Shiba occupied farms, which are Lebanese land still under Israeli occupation. So they opened a support front for Gaza, but on Lebanese land. So that's like 110% international law. Never mind. Hezbollah began that operation. And as you all have seen over the past year, no one helped Gaza. The people who helped Gaza were the axis of resistance led by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Some people were calling it a charade. Others were saying, oh, no, this is some sort of an agreement between Hezbollah and Israel to just take out the remaining Palestinians in Gaza.

Media Narratives and Misconceptions

I mean, all kinds of. I want to try to find a good word because I'm a pious Muslim. I cannot use any bad words. All kinds of b's that was being thrown out in the media, that was brainwashing the public into thinking that Hezbollah is either doing nothing or is just helping out Israel to attack Palestinians instead of actually defend and protect Palestinians. And that was being propagated by none other than the neighbors of Palestine, who still, up until today, have chosen to keep their borders closed in the faces of the people of Palestine, whether from the West Bank or Gaza. I don't think it's now time to attack anyone. Let me just continue what I'm saying. And, yeah, over the course of the past year, Hezbollah was able to create a great support front to pressure Zionist Israel into at least moving some of its battalions away from Gaza up to the northern border with Lebanon.

Political Dynamics and Military Strategy

And things started escalating when Netanyahu found himself in a conundrum because he was not able to achieve any of the objectives that he set for the genocide against Gaza. So he started to change his objectives and say, oh, we need to also focus on these settlers in the north who cannot go back home. And at that time, the southern part of Lebanon was still inhabited by its people. People never left. They remained in their homes. My village was only evacuated two weeks ago, not even two weeks, ten days ago. So people were still living on the border, the Lebanese side, because we're used to the bombs, we're used to the aggression of Zionist Israel. But we have our land, we have our farms, we have our schools and hospitals, and we need to continue living our life.

Personal Choices and Family Impact

But I chose not to go there for the past year because I didn't want my kids to be traumatized. And at the same time, I was making way for the resistance to be able to operate freely, not thinking that civilians are there, we must take care of them and not fire back from certain areas. So I chose to leave with my family to make sure that the resistance can operate freely. But at the same time, during this past month, let's say, or about to be a month, the level of attacks from Zionist Israel became unprecedented. The first of which was two months ago when they assassinated the leader, who is one of the top leaders of Hezbollah commander Fad Shukr. They assassinated him on July 29, if I'm not mistaken, because I was not in Lebanon. I was actually in Venezuela.

The Assassination of Leaders

And the news hit me while I was boarding the plane and was horrific for me because I wanted my plane to land in Lebanon. I want to go back to my family to be with them. So they assassinated him. And on the same night, they assassinated Haniyy on Iranian soil. So it was Israel who was upping the ante here. And then they started assassinating one leader after the other in Lebanon. And that is, I think, one of the biggest security breaches in the history of the resistance in Lebanon. And then you end off with the patriots attack, the patriots terrorist attack, the walkie-talkie terrorist attack, the assassination of the Radwan leadership, starting from Ibrahim Aqeel, the head of the Radwan forces, and 13 other leaders underneath him in the residential area. It was 500 meters away from my house. It was horrific.

Impact of the Assault

I couldn't believe that my children are experiencing that horrible situation. We thought our apartment was falling. Our apartment building was collapsing because they used new kinds of weaponry. And the wave was beyond my imagination. And the first thing that I was thinking about after the attack was, oh my God, this is what Gaza has been living for the past year. I did not evacuate that day. I remained till one day before the assassination of the commander of the axis of resistance state, Hassan Nasruddah. That attack was like nothing we've ever experienced before. Maybe the only thing that we nearly experienced that is like, almost similar is the August 4, 2020 port explosion, which now I have absolutely no doubt that it was Zionist Israel behind it.

Weaponry and Methods Used

That was before behind it. But it was horrific. I was in an area 10 km away from the area where Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah was assassinated. And still my building was shaking and the sound was horrible because of the bunker buster bombs. So Israel used all sorts of illegally, internationally banned weapons, illegal weapons against Gaza. And now it's using them against Lebanon alongside the white phosphorus it had been using over the past year, burning our forests and farms in the south. And now we are witnessing the complete decimation of the southern suburbs of Beirut, which means that I must probably have lost my khayyam house and also my Beirut house. And I really am thankful that this is happening because at least I get to feel one 10th of what the people in Gaza have been feeling over the past year and say, Alhamdulillah, we have given our all to Gaza and we're ready to give even more.

Concluding Reflections on the Resistance

So that is what I have to say about what has been happening about the launching and the, if you will, basically the launching of the resistance in Lebanon since the eighties and what it became now. And I'm. At this moment, I'm more than trusting and supportive of the resistance more than any other time in my life. And I have faith that we will win this. But of course, it's going to be a heavy price that we are absolutely ready to pay. Thank you so much for that, Marwan. Actually, it's beneficial that you went through the history from where it started and where we stand right now, or where Hezbollah stands right now. And the Lebanese people, because this space is recorded for people from the west who are going to listen to it later on or for the listeners that are here.

Discussion on Media and Public Perception

So, speaking about Hezbollah, there is one thing that I actually noticed that I wanted to take your opinion about it. It's an incident that happened yesterday on a TV interview on Al Jalid TV or Jade TV. I don't recall the channel's name. I think it's Jade TV. It's Al Jadid. Okay. Where the host was having an interview with the Palestinian official from Hamas. And she started by saying that Sayyid Hassan Nsrallah said that he would never end the support for Gaza unless they asked him to. And by day, he meant the Palestinian assistance. So while she was discussing with him, she was repeatedly asking aggressively, why don't you ask Hezbollah to end their support? Haven't they paid enough by losing their dearest and hugest, etcetera? Yes, we hold Lebanon's now destroyed an account of the Palestinian cause, which while we hold dearly to our heart, we have paid for it for, over the years and continue to pay for it highly.

Media Pressure and Public Response

So why don't you ask him? She kept repeating that, and honestly, I found it out of place. But I would like to ask you about, what do you think about it and for the same people, because this is not only the TV host that did that. I can hear multiple people saying the same thing or multiple people trying to employ the same thing. So what's your thoughts about that? I'll tell you something. Look, during times of pressure and times of hardships is when you really know who the real genuine and dignified people are. It's very easy to support the resistance when it is at its highest points, when it's at its highest successes. The real test is if you abide by the laws and principles of that resistance and if you still supported at times of war like this, you know what's good about social media and about the Internet?

The Role of Social Media

There's nothing really good about them, but except one thing, that, it's a big archive. It's a library. What's good about it is that over the past year, all the speeches that Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah made are found online. And I dare her or anyone on Al Jadid or anyone that says heard Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah say, we will stop when the Palestinians ask us to. I dare them to get that video Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah repeated from day one. If you remember when it started on October 8, Sayyid Hassan kept us waiting for days, weeks, and never even opened his mouth. I think it was till, was it till November, if I'm not mistaken? I think it was November 13 when he made, because I remember very well, because it was packed. We were in the middle of the southern suburbs of Beirut and were waiting. And we couldn't, like, we needed to hear what he has to say.

His Commitment to the Cause

And what he said was, this front will come, will continue. We opened this front. We will continue this front until there's a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. He never said that the Palestinians asked them to stop, because they never did. He never said that we will stop if the Palestinians ask us, because he can't. Because as a religious leader, not only a resistance leader, he has a duty to support the oppressed against the oppressor. So he cannot really stop unless the danger is eliminated from the oppressed people. And third, shame on her. Shame on her. On the anniversary of the glorious October 7 Al Aqsa flood operation that she asks one of the most important factions in the axis of resistance, the Palestinian Hamas resistance faction, whether they will ask Hezbollah in the middle of the war after their top leader was assassinated, Allah Tariq al Quds, on the road to Al Quds Jerusalem, asking them to stop.

Ideological Commitment

Don't you think that we already knew that it's going to be a very heavy price, or else why would we call ourselves, I'm sorry, I'm going to talk a bit of ideology here. Why would I call myself a Muslim Shia if I don't abide to the words that I say, especially in Ashura, when I commemorate imam Hussain? And when I say, meaning, we will never be humiliated, we will never stop being a support for the oppressed. We will always stand with the Haqq, with the truth, with the people who have rights. How dare I call off these calls every year for more than three months? People think it's only ten days. No, it's three months for more than three months. And then when the time comes for me to actually do some action to support the oppressed, I say, halas, I paid enough. I don't want to keep. Kind of nonsense is that you are either with the resistance or you're not in the middle of the war.

Standpoint on Resistance

If you want to start pinpointing your. If you want to start, like, pointing your fingers at the resistance or any supporters of the resistance and claiming that they did something wrong in the middle of the war, then you are a traitor. I'm not saying that the resistance cannot or did not do anything wrong. There is. There's a lot of issues, tactical issues, strategic issues, that most probably went wrong. Definitely at the security level, a lot of things went wrong. Hence why we're seeing the entire leadership being eliminated by Zionist Israel. But this is not the time for it. We wait. When the war is over and we open a discussion at a national level, what that woman was doing, if she did that for real, what she was doing was undignifying, was disrespectful. It was disrespectful to the blood that was spilled in support of Palestine and in defending Lebanon, because as I told you when I began the terrorist attack of the patriots.

Karma and Evidence

What the Zionists keep mocking us as the beep. Well, the nice thing about karma is that it comes back and bites back. If that is not enough evidence that they have been preparing a year before October 7 to detonate those rigged devices with the devices rigged with explosives that were sent to Lebanon, that I don't know what kind of evidence. People need more to show that Zionist Israel has a long term animosity with Lebanon, the Lebanese, and especially the resistance. I don't know how we can prove it to them any longer. I don't know how we can prove more when Zionist Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, bombing and decimating Lebanon, killing at least in less than 24 hours, 700 people last week all across Lebanon. And the BQ bombing, Syria killing Syrians in Damascus, in Hama, in Aleppo, bombing yemenite. And I would not be surprised if they also took part in the bombing of Iraq, I think two or three months ago because they are capable of doing this, because of all the support that they get from the west.

Perception of Treason

But saying this, especially at this time, I would look with the eyes of someone who's seeing a traitor. That's how I would see it. Thank you so much for that, Marukh, and thank you also for clarifying the position and how things are and what are the actual words of Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah were the last things I want to ask you before giving it to first blood so you can ask questions, is that it's, this is the point that has been discussed a lot as well, is that many people are asking, why is the lebanese army not involved in the war? Where are they? Why are they not fighting with Hezbollah, why are they not defending the country, etc. If you can explain and explain why to the audience and give us some knowledge to understand basically what's the structure and what's happening, that would definitely be appreciated.

Pride in the Lebanese Army

My pleasure. Look, as Lebanese, I'm very proud of my army because they have been pushed into several areas that they proved that they are fully capable, despite the fact that they are not tactically capable. They don't have the proper weapons to defend the nation, but they had the courage and the power to fend terrorism off of Lebanon, whether in the Nahar al Bayerad incidents of 2008, where we lost a lot of very fine men in the lebanese army, or in the Fajr al Giroud operation against ISIS and Nusra, which they fought side by side, shoulder by shoulder with Hezbollah on the border between Lebanon and Syria, and it was a major success. And I'm very proud of my country's army, but we need to be realistic. They don't have the tools, and they're not allowed by the United States of America to use whatever tools they have.

Challenges Faced by Lebanese Army

If you remember, over the past week, Zionist Israel has already killed two members of the lebanese army who are at the moment who were at that time on the front line in Wazani and in another area, I don't want to say the wrong town, in south Lebanon, but they killed two lebanese army officers. If you are a southerner or if you're a lebanese, but a southerner more, because we see posts of the lebanese army on the border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, you can actually see what kind of weapons they have. You can see what kind of tanks they have. They have tanks that go back, maybe. I think, if I'm not mistaken, to world War two, I'm being dead serious. This is not sarcasm because it breaks my heart that this is the level of equipment that is in the hands of my army. Despite the fact that Russia and Iran and China have multiple times basically proposed to, offered to arm the lebanese army, but they're not allowed to by the American.

Challenges from Foreign Influence

The american ambassador would basically make a fuss with the lebanese army's chief, who is now the United States number one candidate for the presidential elections in Lebanon. So you may know, you can understand from that alone the level of involvement and influence and infiltration within the higher levels of command in the lebanese army. Despite the fact that I be also very realistic and honest with you, the command in the lebanese army is very. Is on a very good level of understanding with the command and action center of the resistance. Meaning there were never any trouble between the lebanese army and Hezbollah, except that one time at the Taiyuni massacre two years ago, maybe two or three years ago, if I'm not mistaken. I think it was two years ago when one of the members of the army shot and killed lebanese civilians, but it ended up being a member of the army who was also part of one of the lebanese political factions that are foes to Hezbollah.

Historical Context

So was an individual incident that never happened again, not like the ones that happened in the early nineties when the lebanese army was still in the hands of people who had direct animosity with the resistance and ended up shooting people under the bridge of the airport. It is a very famous incident, killing women and men who were out in support of Palestine at that time, and they were shot dead by the army. But that thing happened in the nineties and then never happened again because there was a big understandment between the lebanese army and the resistance. So they practically on the same side. And over the past years, we've seen multiple times lebanese army officers and generals in direct contact with the zionist enemy, threatening them to shoot if they keep violating the blue line, the bordering a blue line between Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

Lebanese Army's Technological Limitations

But what kind of weaponry does the lebanese army have? They don't have, I'm sorry to say, they don't even have the Katyusha that Hezbollah has. And Katyusha is the lowest level of missiles and rockets that Hezbollah has. I mean, should we, like, lie to ourselves? No one arms the army. And since they are an organized army, Zionist Israel can, with its f, stake off and bomb any brigade, bomb any military base and kill hundreds. We don't want that to happen. And the resistance have said that multiple times. They said, we've got your back and we've got your front as well. Like, we're ready to fight on the front line. And you could be, you could have our backs. So it's a good relationship between the lebanese army and the resistance.

Misconceptions about Fracture

And all reports that you read in the west that there's some sort of a preparation to create some sort of a fracture between the lebanese army and the resistance are just western talk on the ground. People know, we know this will never happen. But this is just kind of like the propaganda that usually the White House or the regime in the United States of America tries to portray as if to show that the resistance is a militia and now the army needs to take care of it. No, that's not the case, and that's never going to happen. Thank you so much for that, Maru. I appreciate it. First, I'm sorry, I will ask final question and then. No, no, go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah.

Impact of Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah's Leadership

So I want to discuss something that actually first mentioned at the beginning, which was the video that was circulating. And actually, for me, the first footage that was circulating from Rohiti, it showed how much you had a deep connection with Sayyid Hasan Nusrallah, and it showed how much he valued his presence, his leadership and everything that he has been doing for his people. But I wanted to ask you, after everything that happened, do you think that, like, if you take into perspective how this impacted you as an individual who lived and listened to him and interacted with him for years, how would this actually inter, would this have any impact on the moral of the resistance on ground and the fighters. Will this have any impact on the current, let's say, leadership with the people that are in the political level in Hezbollah?

Coping with Leadership Changes

And the last thing is, do you think that the generation that grew with said Hasan and only knew him, who believed in his leadership and wisdom, how are they going to cope? So that's separate than the rest of the question. Can I, can I add to your question just a little bit? There's a lot of people that whenever that terrorist attack happened, targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut with, like, massive american bombs, they said that Hezbollah is finished. They said that the people who support Hezbollah are going to give up because they lost. You know, the, he was more than a leader for me personally. He was a father. And I'm, you know, for many Lebanese also, like, he transcended Lebanon. He was biggest than Lebanon.

Resilience of Hezbollah

What do you have to say to these people that thought, that still think to this day that Hezbollah is finished because of the assassination of our leader? Let's begin with that. That's a very interesting question. Let's begin with that. And then I'll go to the RT thing and the emotional thing because I have a reply for, I actually did a video two days after the incident. But let me start with the last question. This is a very important question. And this is one of the questions that I used to ask my students in class because I do teach at two different universities, one, which is a university within the community of Hezbollah and another university that has more diversified lebanese students from all across Lebanon.

Hezbollah's Endurance

And I always used to ask them, what will happen to Hezbollah if said Hassan Nasrullah either dies or gets killed. And everyone would be in shock. Like, they're not even prepared for that question. And my answer would be the same answer that the same thing that we saw happen in 1992, you know, it's because we lived for 33 years with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. Like, I'm 36. So I was three years old when I was introduced to the iconic figure. So I grew up, literally grew up watching him, listening to him in every aspect, not only in the aspect of resistance, because people tend not to recognize that he's a religious man, he's a Sayyid, meaning that he's a cleric that talks about everything in life, not only politics, because religion in my ideology is about everything.

Philosophy of Leadership

It's dealing with you and your God and your community, your family, etcetera. So he spoke about everything. So he taught us a lot of things. But despite the fact that he's, as you said transcendent Lebanon. He's bigger than Lebanon. There was a bigger man before him and a bigger man before him. The bigger man before said Hassan Nasrallah was said Abbas al Musawi. And if you listen to the speeches of that man, by God, he was such a loss for Lebanon and he went so early. But look who came after him. And before Sad Abbas al Musawi, they, there was Sayyid Musa Sadr, who up until now, if you listen to his fifties, sixties and seventies speeches, if you listen to them now, you think that he's literally living with us right now and talking about Zionist Israel and the criminal behavior and the aggressive behavior that this entity has towards all the peoples of this region.

The Nature of Leadership Loss

So it's not new for us to lose iconic leaders, but maybe because we are living in a very materialistic world that focuses on individualism and capitalism is like grasping every aspect of life and focus on materialistic stuff. And what I need more, what I want more, instead of focusing on what the community needs more and what I, as a human being, should be elevating my spirit with and preparing myself for after my death, because this life means nothing, etcetera. Because of all of that in this world, were seeing him, Sayyidinasrallah, as that man who will always bring us to the right path, who will always help us out when we are confused or when we are lost or when we need answers.

Legacy and Continuity

Because he used to speak with us about everything, literally everything. Like you name it, he said it. So we found answers in him, and we found it in a very iconic way, because there's always that professor in your university or that teacher back in school that really touched your hearts. That that is like, literally just sleeps in the back of your head when you want to do something. You remember what he said or what he did. That was what said Hassan Nasrallah was for us. And that is why this loss feels so grave at a global level. Not only at a national level, right here on Lebanon, on, but just like Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala granted us, say Abbas, said Musa, southern, then said Abbas Musawi, and then Saythasan Nasrullah, who, by the way, up until now, when we speak of him as if he's still alive.

Spiritual Connection to the Martyrs

Because they are our martyrs. We believe that our martyrs are alive. They didn't leave us because their essence is there. Their teachings are there, their speeches are there. Their love and compassion for their community is still there. That's why we still talk as if he's amongst us. But to answer your question specifically, has. Is like, is Hezbollah finished? Absolutely not. If that were the case, Hezbollah would have been finished. It would have completely done in 1992 when it was with its very confined capabilities and still under occupation and whatnot. But Hezbollah 2024 is not Hezbollah 1992.

Future of Hezbollah

And I assure you, Hezbollah 2025 will not be Hezbollah 2024, meaning that the changes that will happen will most probably be taken for the benefit of the resistance because none of the capabilities were touched. They keep telling you there 60 or 70% of the Hezbollah capabilities have been taken out that are. This is an absolute lie. And I'm talking based on facts, not on theories. Okay? The capabilities are still there. And my evidence is what we have been seeing for the past two days. Have you been seeing what's happening in Haifa and in Ghostan and in Kuryat as well? Or Karyut, I'm sorry, it's Kiryash Muna and Karyut, the one that is in the suburbs of Haifa. So have you been seeing what's.

Evidence of Resilience

What's happening and the types of messages that are being used? So what are they talking about? The number of missiles are increasing day by day. So the capabilities are still there. Yes. The leadership was hit, and it was hit hard. But if you don't know the hierarchy inside of Hezbollah that then you will definitely think that it's done. But this is not it. Hezbollah is based on a hierarchy of. Each leader has not only one deputy, most probably two or three deputies that are there to take the position in case their leader was martyred. Hence why, when we heard this morning, Sheikhna im Qasim, the deputy secretary general of Hezbollah, saying that all positions are filled, and they have been filled for some time now.

Future Leadership of Hezbollah

It's only. What? The only position that is left is the position of secretary general, which will be decided upon most probably after the war, not now. And even if it happens in the war, of course Hezbollah is not going to be announcing it because it would be unsafe for the new secretary general. And I expect that the new secretary general will be a young man, the same way said Hassan Nasrallah was, because it's. I think now is the time, because Saeed Hasan has said it several times when he was talking about himself and how he misses his friends, all of those who are martyred, he feels that he's alone. And when I remember him saying this, I smile, because that man felt.

Hezbollah's Youthful Legacy

He knew that he was going in the most different, dignified ways to ever exist. So he was who he would always say that it's about time we have new blood in Hezbollah. This is what the leadership wants. If the leadership becomes a dictatorship, then is when you will see Hezbollah being finished or demising or dying. But because of this circulation and this hierarchy and Hezbollah, it is always youthful because it's bringing way for new commanders and new leaders and it's bringing way to new youth in the community to serve the community. Because Hezbollah is not only a military wing, it's a social wing, a political wing, an educational wing, engineering.

Domestic Production Pride

They're now. We were proud the missiles that are being launched are made in Lebanon. I'm proud to export my country's production, if you will. So it's on multiple levels. So no, absolutely not. Hezbollah is not affected. Hezbollah is very strong. Hezbollah has the support of the community. If you go out and talk to the people who are displaced, whether in rentals or in schools, and you ask them what do you think about Hezbollah? Is it finished? They would say absolutely not. Who said that with the demise of a leader, the community and the supporters and the military wing would end? Absolutely not.

Community's Resilience and Trust

So rest assured, Hezbollah's capabilities are still intact. The operations are increasing and escalating on a daily level. Just now, 4 hours ago, there was a major operation in the Labune in the southern part of Lebanon, near Nakura. And it was a very successful operation where Hezbollah was able to thwart another invasion attempt by Zionist Israel. Now to end off with the video from RT, you need to understand that it's a matter of who the person is. Maybe someone else other than me would have reacted differently. But I was taken by the severity because in my head I was sure he was fine. And were just talking about it minutes before because the video that was shared, it was shared halfway through the interview.

Emotional Impact of News

We actually had discussed that. And we had discussed how in 2006, from day one in the 2006 war, Zionist Israel had said that Hezbollah's leaders have been assassinated and whatnot. So we had already passed that. But when she just hit me with that, the first thing that I wanted to do is that I wanted to double check. And the only way for me to double check was to see my phone. I need to get to telegram to the Telegram channel of the Hezbollah military media to double check and read the statement with my own eyes. That was the first thing that I wanted to do. I was very emotional because if you know me, you know that I can pick a fight for two people, my father and said Hassan Nasrallah.

Connection to Leadership

And I might forgive for my father, but I will never forgive anything that has to do with Sayyid Hasan Nasrullah doesn't mean that I loved him more than my father. It means that the relationship with him is on another level. You know, it is something that hits deepest, that I think it's not only personal, but it also hits my community, it hits my ideology, it hits my country. It hits my sovereignty. So that man meant a lot to me. And first of all, I needed to double check. Second of all, I needed to cry out loud. And as a muslim woman, you are not supposed to hear me crying out loud.

Expressing Grief

You can hear my voice. I'm speaking, but if I want to cry out loud, you're not supposed to hear me, especially if you're a man. I needed to log off and scream because I needed to get that anger out of me, and I did that. And then I left the house. I left the house. I went down to the streets and I started running. I needed to release that energy. I ran for 5, started just taking a step back and walking and watching the people in the streets, they were beyond horrified. And this. That scene gave me hope, but it also broke my heart because people really loved him.

Trust in Leadership

And it gave me hope, because this means that these people really trusted his leadership. And now they will have more trust because they will put their souls and their spirits at that covenant that they gave. We will remain truthful to that covenant, that we will support Palestine, we will support our resistance, because it is our divine right to do so. So I hope I answered your questions. I'm sorry. I'm always like, my heart just jumped when I'm talking about the resistance. Sorry, I. That.

Resistance During Hard Times

No, I appreciate you, Marwa. I appreciate you. And I appreciate the fact that you highlighted that it's extremely easy to support the resistance when everything is fine, but when in times, when times get tough, this is where, you know, a lot of masks fell off. And indeed, especially here on X, a lot of masks fell off because people suggested that Hezbollah should quit. And, you know, they were like, this is useless. Hezbollah is finished. And today, the battle for, if you look, like you said at the battlefield, what's been going on in Haifa, even in Tel Aviv, targeting the Galilot 8200 base, proves that the capabilities of Hezbollah, despite what Netanyahu and Gallant and all these people are saying, the battlefield speaks otherwise.

Misinformation Campaign

And it goes back to the saying that the news is not what you hear, it's what you see. Speaking about this misinformation that is going on, which seems to be like a massive, unprecedented misinformation campaign going on all types of social media regarding Iran and regarding the whole axis of the resistance. Before the operation, true promise to people were speculating that Iran has sold Hezbollah because they are waiting too long, etcetera. And some people are still pushing this narrative that somehow Iran is an expansionist project that are looking to overtake the region.

Defending Iranian Support

What do you, as a native from there, you've lived there. What do you have to say to these people that listen to mainstream western media and believe that's the truth? Well, whatever I'm going to be saying, people are going to be accusing me of being on the payroll of Iran because I work for press tv, which is the iranian state television channel in english language, and they forget that CNN is a state run tv, BBC is a state run tv, DW is a state run tv, and everything that they stand for is state run and funded by the terrorist rogue empire. So they think by throwing those arrows that, oh, I'm going to be hurt.

Pride in Identity

Absolutely not. I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my work. And I absolutely have no doubt that the Islamic Republic of Iran supports my people in the region. Why would they not win all the know how and all the missiles are from them when we have seen over the past at least 15 years, iranian engineers and iranian brigadier generals and iranian generals dying on our soil because they are supporting our resistance? I mean, how dumb can someone be to accuse Iran of just washing its hands of the resistance in the region? I mean, come on. Have you not been seeing the missiles that were raining on October 1 and on April 13 on Zionist Israel?

Iran's Response to Israel

Who is ever done that in the past 30 years except of Iran? What state did that? No one except of Iran and the resistance factions in the region. When people say that, it's like they. It's like they're going to the same catalog to the same notebook of Iran is left Syria alone, Iran left Iraq alone. Iran is washing the hands of the resistance in Palestine. Iran has sold out and wants to maybe, like, remove some of its sanctions in return by not talking about the ceasefire or not asking ceasefire. All of those are. I don't want to say lies. I just want to say propaganda.

Propaganda against Iran

They are calculated propaganda to brainwash the public, especially the public right here in West Asia, to hate on Iran, despite the fact that they've seen nothing but good from Iran.

Iran's History and Ideological Stance

I mean, Iran has not invaded another country in at least 200 years. Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. And they say that and it's haram actually to have a nuclear weapon according to their ideology, which means it's unacceptable. And Iran has helped all the resistance factions, despite the sanctions that it's all the resistance factions, the region depai, the sanctions that it has been suffering from since 1980, 819, 79, and despite the fact that it could have forged all the ties it needed to open up to the world economy to become a commercial hub for western and eastern companies equally. It can easily do that, but they choose not to because they choose to be on the side of righteousness. People might listen to me and say, oh, look, she's defending them. She's. Look, I have nothing to say to you. If you have not been reading about the history of Iran since 1979 up until today, about the martyrs that it has provided on this road, about the know how, about how it is an amazing country that had brought itself up despite the sanctions and completely made sure that it becomes self satisfied in all technologies and in all industries and maintained friendships with a lot of people who are equally friends with Israel, just to make sure that its national security is intact with the countries around it, for example, like Qatar and the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Bahrain at some point as well, despite the fact that it openly criticizes the normalizers.

Regional Dynamics and Israel

But at the same time, it says that my animosity is with Israel. It's not with you. You are my brothers and neighbors in the region. But on the other side, what do we hear? What do we see coming out of the regimes of the region? And I don't want to start naming names because I don't have the time nor the energy to start blocking people again because I'm not going to interact with those people on social media. I mean. I mean, I've had enough with dealing with trolls, but what have other nations in the region that already sold out on the palestinian cause give to the Palestinians? Grant the Palestinians anything? What have they given them? What money? When they're dying, suffocating, under siege, being detained, being shot with explosive bullets that would ensure that you're amputated. Because a lot of people in the west would say, why aren't the Palestinians protesting peacefully? Have you not been following the great, the grand march that happened four years ago? Did you not follow it? How they were just waving flags on the border in a non violent, completely peaceful, non armed protest and they were still being bombed and shot where medics were killed, press were killed.

Historical Context and Right to Self-Defense

Did you not see that? You only saw October 7. October 7 came after years and decades of suffocation, besiegement, killing, detaining, stealing land. It's their. Like, it's the least of their rights to defend themselves. Absolutely. I mean, I think that the 7 October which you described, and I do agree with this as a glorious day, I think it highlighted the hypocrisy of the west and the so called human rights that they praise so much over there because, like, now it's been over a year of this complete genocide, even recognized by the international community. And not a single country could even, like, lift a sanction against this. I would say, like, it's an american colonial investment, which is the zionist entity. But Yemen did. And Yemen were one of the first ones to impose these sanctions by pretty much shutting down the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. What can you tell us about what Yemen did and how much did it impact this current conflict?

Yemen's Historical Significance

Yemen. Yemen, Yemen. The great people of Yemen and the great nation and civilization of Yemen. And those people, I don't think we will ever be. Nothing will ever be enough to thank them, to be honest with you. I mean, look at them. Since October 7, every Friday, millions of people at the public level go down to the streets in support of Gaza. And ever since the war against Lebanon started, when it intensified, they kept supporting us and now they changed their statements. These statements begin in support of our people in Gaza and Lebanon. Do you know how dignifying that is? You know how important what Yemen did to try and effect economically affect the zionist entity by putting a blockade on the Red Sea and telling them, when you want to blockade people and kill them, we're going to do the same thing to you. You don't think that we'll allow you to ship weapons to kill more people? And you genocide heirs and us just watching there, I mean, those people who have never been invaded, by the way, a lot of civilizations tried to invade Yemen and they were always failing to do so because the yemeni people historically are very fearful.

Resilience of the Yemeni People

They are very dignified. They won't accept occupation. They won't accept oppression. Look at what they did. Since the zionist entity pushed Saudi Arabia to start a war against them in 2015, they stood tall. They never allowed invaders in. I mean, they were ready to start taking their land back in Asir and Najran in the northern part of Yemen, which they are historically yemeni land. No one was able of breaking their will to fight back their resistance. Despite the fact that they suffered from famine, they suffered from large number of casualties, martyrs and injured because of the war. They suffered from a lot of sanctions and basically the UK, the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other parts of the so called coalition that is basically a coalition of terrorist entities across the world trying to make sure that the natives are submissive and that they basically accept any form of occupation, whether it's a financial occupation or an actual physical occupation. What Yemen was able, and by the way, despite the fact that Yemen was suffering from the war, and it is fractured, divided in half, with Yemenis, with Ansarullah, and Yemenis who are with Saudi Arabia, even those Yemenis who are with Saudi Arabia, they stood tall and said, we support Ansar Allah in their fight against Zionist Israel, in support of Palestine.

Community Support despite Division

This tells a lot about those people. It tells a lot, because, by the way, the war in 2015 in Yemen would not have started had it not been for Saudi Arabia. Because during the last couple of weeks, in March, before the war started, there was a very viable dialogue happening between different factions, political factions in Yemen, and they were about to reach an agreement, but Saudi Arabia didn't allow that, and it started the war. This means that the Yemenis, at core, they are one people. And Palestine was the biggest test for them. And what they did will forever be spoken of. It will be written down in history that the yemeni people stopped, literally put elat port out of business, and they did not allow shipments of weaponry to reach. And they bombed USS Eisenhower and put it out of work. They basically just. They weren't able to. The Americans, they weren't able to get it through the Kanata, Suez, the Suez Canal, because it would be basically seen by everyone. And the egyptian population would easily be able to, like, take photos and videos of the damage on board of the ship.

Yemen's Strategic Importance

And they weren't able to take it back into the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb, because they will be hit back. So they decided to keep it in Sarabia and to do the maintenance there. So that tells a lot about the capabilities of the yemeni people and then, and how they used their waterways, which belongs to them, in favor of supporting the people of Palestine who were under genocide. What they did and what they continue to do, for me, is a miracle. It is a miracle, and it can only happen to the likes of the Yemenis because of their faith and because of their steadfastness and because of their moral values, which they hold closely to their. To their hearts. And it's basically based on the Quran, on the holy book of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. They base everything on that holy book. That's why those people are very successful people. And by the way. Yemenite Yemen. According to certain studies made by british and american and also french companies, Yemen might be basically flowing over the largest oil and gas reserve in the world, but most probably oil reserve in the world. Yemen might have more than what Venezuela has in a matter of resources.

Future Potential of Yemen

Hence why they were trying to. To make it bow down and become a puppet in the hands of the empire. But they failed. Yemen has all the capabilities to become much more developed than it is right now if the sanctions are lifted and if they are allowed to use their own resources to build their country. And even if they don't, look at what they have done so far. Absolutely amazing. The youngest child in Lebanon, in Yemen, six years old, can do an entire speech, an hour and a half speech with excellent Arabic. I actually envy them because I don't know how to speak proper official Arabic language. And I look at those six year olds and they are like, allah, Muhammad. Amazing. Amazing the way that they bring out their youngsters with that firm belief in God, land and righteousness. If you allow me, I'll write poetry and say it for young. And I have deep faith that I will visit Yemen soon, inshallah. Especially Sanaa, Sada and Hodeidah, and especially Saada, because I have students there, because I used to give online sessions to a couple of ladies in Sada that I admire so much and I love so much and I hold dear to my heart.

Gratitude towards Yemen

And we're still very good friends up until now. So I hope someday to visit them and to thank, properly thank the yemeni people for everything that they have done for Palestine and for Lebanon. Thank you so much for that, Marwa. I appreciate it. And I want to just remind everyone, this is just. I give two quick announcements, then I'll go straight to you, Haider, and thank you more as well for giving us the time. I know your time is tight, so when it comes right now, I want to bring everyone's attention to two things. First thing israel is committing massacres. Now stop in the north of Gaza because they want to expel everyone from the north and make them go to the south. So if you see anyone posting about the north, try to amplify it as much as you can to bring more awareness to it and to make people realize the massacres and the amount of atrocities that are happening right now every day in an unprecedented manner in Gaza.

Ongoing Violence and Call to Action

Because so far today the actually 43 Palestinians were martyred because of Israel's aggression. Since done. Second thing is for the people in the space, if you can please share the space. It's already recorded, so more people can listen to it. Can listen to what Marua is saying is definitely, really super important for me. It's because I know some people misunderstand this. It's not about my account. I couldn't care less about it. I just want people to listen to what she's saying because it's someone from the region, someone who has experience in that region, someone who knows the resistance, who speaks from around heart. So definitely people should understand and listen to what you're saying to get a more better perspective about it. And yeah, with that note, Haider, go ahead, please.

Understanding the Situation at the Border

Salam alaikum. To everyone involved, to everyone here, thank you. Suppressed first blood Marwa, thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate you. You have some fans here, that's for sure. Marwa, in the beginning, I want to ask you know, regarding the zionist claims of them being able to take Maroon al Ras today was very reminiscent of what we heard in the first few days of the ground incursion in 2006 when they said they took Maroon al Ras and Aytarun and so on and so forth, and this was all propaganda and media warfare. I'm sure you could speak to this, but could you maybe explain to the western audience that's not familiar with what's happening on the southern border or these border villages, what the mentality is of the fighters that are on the border, and also what the mentality is of the soldiers that have tried this route before, both in the eighties and the nineties and then 2000, 2006 and today. I'm sure they would love to hear it from you.

Debunking Zionist Propaganda

Thank you. Thank you for that. Let me begin by telling the people that you need to understand the geography of Maroon Ras in order to visualize with me when I say that it's lie, it's a big lie by the zionist entity. Marun Ras would be actually one of the hardest places for them to infiltrate and invade because it is higher than the occupied palestinian land that they stand upon now. Facing Maruna Ras is one of the highest mountains in Ariha in the west bank. But it is at least, if I'm not mistaken, at least 60 km away from Maruna Ras. So the land to get to Maruna Ras is a valley, and then Maroon Ras is upward. Let us just agree upon one thing. That flag that you saw them raise raising is not even on lebanese land. That's just, that's like on the border. And I mean, Hezbollah can go to the border, right? Now and raise any flag it wants. What does that mean? Did they invade occupied Palestine? Are they trying to retake and liberate the land? That would not be the case if you don't have a viable video for that.

Challenges of Ground Invasion

And if you don't see soldiers with their tanks and their armed armored vehicles strolling the streets of any town in Lebanon, then take it from me, they are lying because it's not easy. It's a very mountainous region. Basically, the only three areas that would be fairly easy to invade would be Merjayoun, the valley, the field of Merjayoun, which is the field of Khayyam. And they were not able to do that on the very first day, October 1. They were getting hit hard. Hard. They tried. They couldn't do it. They tried. They couldn't do it. And there's also Wad al Hajid. There's like the middle area that, like, the middle part of south Lebanon where they can. There's a certain area where they can try to invade. And they tried it in 2006, and it was called Makbaratul Merkava. It became this, called the cemetery of Merkava.

Retrospective Insights

And I actually wrote about this because last summer before October 7, I was invited by the. What was it called? Sima. Sima is a Simia, is one of the media institutions that are part of the Hezbollah media institutions. And they invited us to go and meet with some of the leaders, the frontline leaders, and they took us to that specific valley in Wad al Hujair. And went up to one of the bases that looked overdose, the area where the merkava was basically bombed into oblivion. And so I tell you, it is very difficult for them if it's not done there or in Merjayun or in Nakura. And we all saw what happened today on that border in Labune. They were not able to infiltrate. As a matter of fact, they were ambushed by the resistance.

Ambush Strategy

So any video that you see, if you literally don't see them on the streets, because the town and Lebanon, they like, they don't look like the settlement kibbutz inside of occupied Palestine. They look like actual villages, like those old time villages. We have made sure to keep the look of a village in south Lebanon. So it's very easy to see a lebanese house. It's very easy to recognize that it's not a kibbutz, that it's not within the occupied palestinian territories. So they cannot really say that they invaded unless they saw that. Like, they show us something. And up until now, they have shown us nothing. And as I always say, I only believe the statements coming from the military media of the resistance.

Military Strategy and Morale

And up until now, all the military media statements have been very clear that there were multiple attempts. They were all unsuccessful, successful. So that's for the infiltration now at the level of the fighters and the people. The fighters they sent a message to commemorating the rising martyr. Their commander said Hassan Nasrullah, I think three days ago. And I'm not sure if I translated it and posted it. I'm not sure. But it's found on social media and it's found in English, and you can search it and look, and you can write Hezbollah fighter letter to martyrs Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah. You can find it. They are very tough. They are ready to give their everything as long as it is within the teachings of their commander.

The Commitment of Fighters

And they promised and vowed to continue the path that was drawn for them by the early founders of the resistance, basically by the founding fathers of the resistance, which Sayyid Hasan al is one of. Of them. There you go. Say it is. My brain doesn't take it in the past tense. He still is the founding father of the resistance. He still is. Yeah, exactly. So they believe firmly in what they are doing. And people also need to recognize that up until now, look, Lebanon is very small, and the community of Hezbollah, it is one of the largest communities in Lebanon, but you can never keep a secret minute.

The Unity of Hezbollah Support

And Hezbollah up until now, has not even asked for the reservists. It has not even asked for people to, like, leave and change and, like, take a leave of vacation and come. No, they're still there. The people are fighting. They refuse to leave. And Hezbollah has not even called for their reservists yet. And as I told you, this is something that cannot hide within the Hezbollah community. You can directly know because there's no household that does not have either a fight or someone who works logistically with the resistance because the resistance is from the land and the land is from the resistance fighters. So you would immediately know about it, just like very few people who are from the south order the BQA who are not directly involved with the resistance.

Enduring Morale Amidst Challenges

So that should be clear. So, no, the morale is high. People, yes, there's a devastation. More than a million people have been displaced. But there's, the morale is high. Every time they see rockets still being fired, they feel dignified. They feel that their support is exactly in the right place. But, yes, every now and then you will hear some people who were come out to say, oh, we're tired oh, we don't want to do this anymore. Or that's normal. You can hear some voices like that from within Gaza itself. But does that not mean that the majority of the people is like that? Every time there's a fallen, or let me say, a rising martyr in Gaza, you hear the family saying, we support the resistance.

Unified Spirit of Resistance

Allah. That's what they said. We support you. Give them help, give them help back. The same way that they are trying to decimate us, eliminate us, kill us, genocide us. So that's exactly what you're going to hear right here in Lebanon. And again, look, faith and ideology is the cornerstone of the resistances in the region. Otherwise, I'm sorry to say, they wouldn't be successful. Because we are fighting not only a land, like, we're not only fighting an enemy for land and resources. This fight for us is a religious one. It is a religious one. And we believe firmly that this land should be equally shared by all people who think that it is sacred.

Call for a Unified State of Palestine

It is Zionist Israel that is not accepting to share it with the rightful people, with the rightful natives. We believe in a one democratic state of Palestine, and whoever want to live there can live with the same equal legality and laws that are found in any sovereign state. But it should be called Palestine as it was once called before the occupation was implanted in our region. The morale is high. People believe in what's happening. Yes, they are sometimes tired. We're human beings. Obviously, we're going to get tired sometimes. But we believe firmly in our resistance. You think for one moment that I would allow someone to come along and reoccupy my land, take my house that I spent nine years of my life building with my husband after we had put a loan on, like we had a debt on ours, to buy the land to begin with and then build that house.

Personal Reflections on Sacrifice

The land is there. The house can go. I can rebuild another one. I'll sit in a tent. I'm going back home. Thank you so much for that. Marwah. We have brother Pelly Basiji, who has a question for you. Go ahead, pally. Salam. Salam alaikum. Especially Ahl Kiam. And you are a true ass, and I applaud you for your courage and your. You embody a lot of the characteristics of Sayyid Zainabaya. And this is something Ghani, I followed you for a very long time, and I wanna. I want you to speak a little bit about your village. The audience, I think if they understand the significance of Khyam, the role it played in 2000 in the victory, the image of the prison being liberated greatly appreciate if you could elaborate a little bit on the village.

Reflections on Personal History

Thank you. My pleasure. But until you made me cry because you mentioned someone who was very dear to my heart, who was my icon and my idol from now till the year after, which is Sayyida Zainab, and I absolutely do not deserve to even be compared to the dust that was once on her abbasid. So I appreciate that, but that was a bit too much for me.

Identity and Expression

Thank you very much. And I appreciate the words that you said, but trust me, the words that I say, it's only because maybe Subhanallah, God allowed me to have the capacity to express myself in English just the way that I do in Arabic. And maybe that's the only asset really, that I have. But everything that I say and utter and express is 110% coming from the land, from the people here around me. It's just I embody the emotions that they have and the love that they have for their country and their leaders and their beliefs. So what I do is simply I'm just mirroring and projecting my community. That's the most that I'm doing now.

Connection to Khyam

Khyam is another story. Qiyam is the village that I cannot. I cannot watch a video from Kheyyam. I cannot watch the videos that I took of my kids in Kheyyam because I will cry hysterically. I am a crier, like, you need to know that I fight you, I can fight you, I can scream, but I can also am very emotional. I cannot watch videos of babies being dismembered. I cannot watch videos that were once really amazing memories, because I feel a lot of nostalgia and I can express myself. But Kiam is the town that I call my own, because it is the town of my husband and my kids. I personally am not from Kiam, but I've been so for the past twelve years on my id, because that's what you have in Lebanon, when you get married, you get transferred to the village of your husband.

Emotional Ties to History

But it was a choice for me because not every women decides that and pushes that. Actually, in Lebanon, it's the woman who takes her husband to her village, not the other way around. But in my case, I fell in love with Kian because I loved it before I even met my husband, because I was there in 2000 when we watched the liberation, and especially the liberation of the detainees, because I was nine years old and we had members of the family who were detained in Khyam detention center. My own father, sorry, before I was even born, was at one point detained there for one month. After that, when he was released, he decided to leave the country. Hence why I was. I was born and raised, not in Lebanon, but then I came here later on. But Kiam was one of the villages that I loved so much because of the story of the detention center.

Impact of Personal Stories

And when you sit around those older people, when they talk about it, and when you see people who were detained there, and. And as a child, I used to just look and watch their hands, me in my head, detained. Meaning that your hands were tied, you know, tied behind your back. But he, like that particular man, was showing us the burns on his knees, because they would make the detainees take off their clothes, civilian detainees, just so that they get some information about the resistance. They would take. Make them basically strip down and kneel and then just keep crawling on their knees, or they would just grab them with their feet and then just basically drag them on the asphalt, on the cement, which would make their knees bleed. And he showed us the scars.

Lessons for the Next Generation

And for me, that was the most horrific sight I've ever seen as a kid. And it. It stayed with me. And then there was another woman who was from Barashid. She was a friend of my grandmother. And she showed me on her hands the scars from the cigarettes that they used to put out in her hands. And there are so many horrific stories. There are many documentaries online that you could watch about the Chiyam detention center. But I made sure that my kids knew about it. My daughter was one year old. The first open space she ever ran across was the Chiam detention center in Chiamenhouse. And I made sure that I told the stories to my kids because I made sure that they also knew the story of their grandfather, who was killed by Zionist Israel at the age of 23 in Chiam when he was a soldier in the lebanese army.

Reconnection with the Past

And we always visited his grave and we always spoke to him. And it was the first place in Kheyyam where my husband took me to introduce me to his father, to tell him that this is the woman that I chose to be my wife and the mother of my children. And it breaks my heart that we have not been able to properly talk to him over the past year, but we will do so, and we will tell him all about it when we go back there. Kiyam is the place where my kids learned about Palestine. And when my kids listened to all my blabber online on interviews about how much Syria is the backbone of the resistance and how much the popular mobilization forces in Iraq. Iraq are the major forces that will see the liberation of the region from american military presence and how much Yemen will be the force to reckon with when it comes to liberating Palestine.

Cultural Connections

It was all in Khayyam because we used to go there at least once a week, at least sometimes more. And during the summer we would just stay there. I would not take courses in summer. I would not teach during summer because I needed to stay there with the kids. And Qiyam is where the Wazani river is where my kids have grown to love nature. Khyam is where my kids eat organic food because their grandmother planted everything in their own land. Khyam is the area that overlooks the occupied golem that I am hopeful it will be liberated, inshallah, soon and they will get to visit it. Khyam is the. Is the village that overlooks occupation, occupied Palestine all the way to tiberias, all the way to Tabariya.

Legacy and Aspirations

And Khayyam is the village that I will end my years in as a senior after I've seen my grandkids and tell them all the stories about everything that happened. And after that, I've given classes, inshallah beaulah in Haifa and Yafa universities, because that's what I aspire. Aspire to live in Kheyyam and then teach in yafa and maybe in Haifa and maybe just, like, enjoy vacations in Tabaraya. This is what kiam is for me. And Kiyam is the land of martyrs that it has never been, never, ever been greedy or unwilling to put forth its own blood and sweat, either to liberate the land, to liberate the detainees, or to fight off terrorists who were infesting our region, or to also support Gaza.

Unity and Diversity in Khyam

And Kiyam is really what Lebanon is for me, because Khayyam has everyone. It has Muslims, it has christians, it has believers and non believers. In Khyam, you can commemorate Imam Hussein, and then you can go to one of the supermarkets and buy, like, I don't know, Johnny Walker. It's. It's. It's Lebanon. It's. It's mini Lebanon. It's what I love about Lebanon, the freedom that it allows its children to be, without anyone judging them or them judging one another. This is what khayyam is for me. Khyam is piety and freedom. Khayyam is a paradise on earth. And, we will never, ever concede to what Zionist Israel wants.

Commitment to the Cause

I promise you. We'll make another space when I'm in khayyam and tell you all about it when I'm there. Back there, Marwa, you said something very personal to me because my mom is from barashit and my aunt was in the Khyam prison and she was subjugated torture with cigarette butts and with the iron, you know, the clothes hanging, the hanger, the electrocution, the subjugating them into two by two cell blocks, pouring cold water on them, damp towels with mold for days on end. So it made Abu ghraib look like Disneyland? Yeah, exactly. And I, you never know, your aunt might be my grandmother's friend after all, you never know.

Reflections and Closing

But yeah, but if you. Phone me back, I can send you a DM with the name. Maybe the issue is I cannot see who's speaking, if you believe it or not, I can. Where are you? I seriously cannot see. Wait a second, wait a second, I'll. Send you his, I'll send you his profile in the DM's. I found you, I followed you back, Haidar, I'm sorry, I didn't follow you back. I'll send you the name. Maybe it is, maybe it is, but yeah, the horrible. By the way, the guide in Chiyam detention center was a former detainee, and when he tells you about it, you can't hold your tears.

Education Through Experience

I was giving at 1.1 course at the Lebanese International University. It was called, it was called tourism, it was called citizen journalism, and one of the chapters was tourism for journalism. And I wanted to take the, we always choose to one part of Lebanon and we go there and the kids, the students would have to present a project about that and present a paper about it. And I usually always, for certain reasons, I would choose certain areas in south Lebanon because most of the students in that specific university have never even set foot in south Lebanon because they come from different parts of Lebanon.

A Journey of Awareness

At one point it was all girls in that class, we had only one boy with us, but he decided not to come along the trip and we came all the way to Kheyyam, we did a tour in Kheyyam, in Dardara, in the Khyam detention center. We went also to the, were seeing Palestine and were also to a number of cafes in the area so they could the project about it. And then we ended off in Wazeni, but before went to Waseni, went to the chiem detention center and the guide was the former detainee who was taking us around the tour and explaining to the girls, and I had 23 young 19 year olds sobbing because they've never heard the story and it was being told by one of the men who lived through it.

Impact on Students

And I'm proud to say that I changed their lives that day. And up until now, they know how important that visit was and what it changed within them and how it made them love Lebanon even more. This tells a lot about what we teach our children and what we choose to lie by omission. When we omit certain facts, it's like we're lying to our children. And we should not do that. We should make sure that our children love every piece of our country. Hopefully, we'll get there one day.

The Essence of Resistance

You mentioned regarding Sayyidina Bay Salam and I'm sorry if there's some background noise here, but I'm out and about. But you mentioned about Sayyidi Sayyid, and yes, she's above us all, but it's very important to understand the ideology of the resistance, right? And even if you watched the interview of the medic that pulled the body of Samahta Sayyid Hasan the other day, he said that when he saw the body, he said, I saw nothing but beauty. Quoting, saying, and this is the ideology that the men on the front line have. This is the. The school that they come from.

Faith and Resolve

This is why they've been able to endure so much of the hardship in the adversity, is because one, number one, they have faith. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And number two, they come from this school where hardship, it gives them resolve, and it makes them continue to push forward. And if I keep talking about, I have to say it, I'm going to go somewhere else. But in any case, no, 100%, I. Completely understand where you're coming from. And as I said before, had it not been for the ideology and the faith those people have in this part of the world, their success would have never been so, first of all, reverberating, and it would have never made an impact.

Resilience Through Faith

We would have never been able to liberate in order to do that. And when you know that you don't have the capabilities that your enemy has, you need to have Sabr, patience. You need to be very patient. And patience doesn't really come to anyone and everyone. It comes to those who demand it and acquire it and preserve it. And you can really only do that if you have true faith. And that faith can be in the form of faith toward Allah or could be a faith toward your nation. Because we also saw some form of liberation by people in Latin America who were at some point atheists and at some point, they were non believers, but they believed in their land and their right to resist.

Understanding Dunya

So there's some sort of faith there. The faith that is here in this part of the land is a faith in the justice of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And despite the fact that sometimes life can be very painful, but who said that life should be nothing but painful? This is what we believe, and this is why it's called Dunya. And Dunya means the lower level. Literally, it means the lower level. So we are living in a world that it is very low, that has no values, that has no morals, that is founded to basically torture you.

Rejecting Hopelessness

What are you going to do about it? Are you going to get depressed and say, I don't want to do it anymore? You want to what? You want to kill yourself? Be my guest. We're not going to do that. We believe in ourselves. We believe in our rights to defend ourselves and to protect ourselves and to support our neighbors and our brothers and sisters. And we believe that if we die while doing this, it is the most honorable death that any human can ever attain. So that's basically it.

Conclusion of the Dialogue

Look, I'm going to need to apologize. I'm sorry that I would have to leave, but I have another interview that I need to prepare for, so I'm sorry for that. But I've enjoyed it very much. And I think it was very important for people to listen and understand from a native from the land, not specifically from me, but from a native from here who's living through this, and to understand why they think the way that they do and why they believe in the values that they do. And I hope to God that I have made just at least 10% of that understandable. So thank you for the opportunity.

Acknowledgment and Farewell

It's very important in these spaces and on this platform. We need to see you in here. No, I know. I rarely ever do some. Yeah, I know. I rarely ever do that because I'm. Look, there's always a guilt inside of me because I'm a mother. I need to tend to my kids, and there are still kids, so night time is usually their time, and usually spaces are done only at night. So just forgive me. I'll try. We are in very unprecedented times and very, like, overwhelming times as well, and very important, drastic times in our lifetime.

Final Acknowledgments

So I promised I'll do that more, but at the end of the day, when one of the girls says, mama, I have to say, what? And then go and tend to her. So I'm sorry for that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us tomorrow. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Well, there it is, folks. I hope you guys enjoyed it suppressed. Thank you so much for making this happen. This is a prime example of how the people in Lebanon think and act like people in Lebanon are extremely resilient, very powerful.

Strength and Resilience

And, you know, our women are like this, and so our men are like, even, you know, did the same thing. So it was like, very good. I wish we had more time, but inshallah, we can do this more often and suppress. I can begin to thank you enough because, you know, I've been trying to get Marwas man for the longest, and finally it happened. So thank you for that, brother. It's my pleasure. And it's least that I can do. I'll try also to get more guests from the Benan prominent figures that can speak more about it for the audience to clarify, because they can definitely put words in an elegant way that people would understand.

Looking Forward

So I'll definitely try to do that just like I'm doing with Palestine as well. Omar, I'm really sorry, because I know that you messaged me you didn't have time. I apologize again that you couldn't ask your question. Haas. I want to thank you for joining us. I'll take the two hands that are raised, and then I'll shut down the space because it's recorded. And I want it to be for the people to listen to the interview. I don't want it to be prolonged.

Listening and Engaging

So no worries, brother. I'll save it for the next one. I'm sure. We'll be back. Just a very quick question, guys. I've been watching the BBC News, and apparently 15,000 israeli soldiers are in Lebanon. And I just wanted to find out if that's actually true or is it just the usual BBC propaganda? How many? How many thousand? They're being. They're being marinated right now in pomegranate molasses.

Reacting to Current Events

And very soon. I'm not lying to you. There's 15,000 israeli troops in southern Lebanon. They're moving forward. And they killed. And they killed someone. And they're in forward. They killed one person. I'm not going. Wait, wait, wait. 30 minutes, they'll be in Beirut. No, I'm saying show me one video or picture of the 15,000 stepping into Genu. They posted a video 300 meters from the border. That's the, that's the maximum that they could actually advance to on their foot without any.

Discussing Military Movements

Thanks for that. I don't know what. Yeah, and it's a place where they planted the flag. If anyone has ever been there, it's a field. It's probably like 2300 meters. And. Yeah, and it's just the fact that they put the flag there is such an insult to the people of the area as if people don't know what's over there. Oz, do you know what a McKinsey is? I don't know what it is, but yeah.

Cultural References

And in the south, it's a McKinney is a broom. Okay. This is what they took from south Lebanon so far. They literally took. They literally took a broom. I want to keep it short just for the people that are going to listen to it. And I want to give me just 2 seconds. I want to debunk this. Okay? Hans, they took a broom with them and they took no more than a hundred thousand lebanese lira. That's the equivalent of about $4. Mashallah.

Humor in Adversity

Mashallah suppressed. Thank you. Sorry, mate, I just thought it would be funny to share. Thank you. Appreciate you. Benny Hashem, go ahead. Assalamualaikum. hi. Thank you so much for having me here. And I was also like, you know, waiting for the question to ask. This is to Marwa because I have been following her from such a long distance.

The Meaning of Resistance

That is what resistance means to us. Because they call us that, we are expansionists and they call us, we are colonizers. But yes, we expand justice, we expand dignity, we expand love and we expand the pain that we all the oppressed around the globe. So our school of thought is says us that you got to be always on the right side of history. So that is my point. That what we expand, so we expand love and justice.

Final Thank You

That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. I want to thank everyone that joined the space and listened. It's recorded so guys, you can bookmark it, you can send it to anyone you'd like. They can listen to the space. Thank you fresh blood and hyder for co hosting. Thank you Pali Omar Hadidi for joining and haws Bani Hashim for the rest of the people listening in us, doctor Khal, Sami, Omar, everyone.

Looking to the Future

Listeners, thank you guys for joining and inshallah, we'll have another space soon. Thank you.