[Dawn] Hezbullies leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday Egyptian protesters demanding the resignation of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak were changing the Middle East with their battle for "Arab dignity".
| The Egyptians were inventing geometry and building pyramids when the Arabs were still wiping their bottoms with stones. Wait, that didn't come out right... |
"Your movement will entirely change the face of our region for the interest of its own people," Nasrallah said in a televised address to a conference in Beirut, held to support the popular uprising in Egypt.
"You are going through the battle of Arab dignity, restoring the dignity of Arab people," he said.
| The Lebanese were building walled cities and keeping written trade accounts while the Arabs were still wiping their bottoms with stones. |
Egypt has been rocked by two weeks of protests demanding Mubarak, who has ruled for 30 years, step down before his term expires in September. Mubarak has refused, saying his departure would cause chaos in the Arab world's most populous nation, while saying he will not run for re-election in September.
Mubarak's government is suspicious of Hezbullies's links to Iran and backs the Shi'ite group's political rivals in Leb.
| The Iranians were fielding armies with elephants while the Arabs were still wiping their bottoms with stones. Oddly enough, the Iranians feel no need to defend Arab dignity. Is it the elephants? |
Last year an Egyptian court sentenced Hezbullies member Sami Chehab to 15 years in prison on charges of planning attacks in the country. Hezbullies said Chehab beat feet from jail last week in the chaos of the Egyptian uprising.
| It's curious that the jail door magically opened just at the right time. No doubt it was a djinn or an ifrit or a dust devil. |
Nasrallah told the Egyptian protesters that his group did not seek to intervene in their "internal business" or influence their decisions.
| "But no man can gainsay the actions of a djinn or an ifrit or a dust devil." |
But he praised their achievements, saying they were as significant as the 2006 war in which Hezbullies fought Israel to a standstill, and said he wished he could be with them in Cairo's Tahrir Square -- epicentre of the protests.
| The rubble is still piled where Israel left it for Hizb'allah in 2006. Let us not wish the same victory on Egypt. |
"What you have done is no less significant than the historic steadfastness the Islamic Resistance achieved in 2006 and the resistance in Gazoo in 2008," he said, referring to the Israeli military assault on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo.
| The rubble is still piled in Gaza where Israel left it for Hamas in 2008. Really, we do not wish the Egyptians a similar victory. |
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