House Speaker, Nabih Berri, on Monday issued a statement marking the commemoration of the Israeli 2006 aggression against Lebanon.

“July 12, 2006, was a test for all the Lebanese of their loyalty, national affiliation, and their unity; a test of their will to persevere and resist,” Berri said, lauding the Lebanese people’s huge success in this bitter test.

“Our homeland faces the same test today; a test in belonging, unity, steadfastness and resistance, but will we succeed?” pondered Berri.

“We must succeed, and we have no other choice but to succeed, because the fall of Lebanon is tantamount to a free victory for the Israeli enemy, which awaits opportunities to attack Lebanon, and to confiscate its wealth, and its role,” he added.

Furthermore, Berri said that bogging Lebanon down in obstruction, dumping its institutions into deadly vacuum, and indulging in political and constitutional absurdity, were all acts that amounted to outright “treason” against Lebanon and the Lebanese.

“We affirm, with all transparency and calm, that there will be no immunity for anyone involved in any crime [port blast and corruption]. The parliament will support the judiciary to the fullest extent under the roof of the law and the constitution,” Berri added, affirming that “immunity is only for the blood of the martyrs, for the homeland, for human dignity, for the constitution and the law, and absolutely ‘not’ for the law of the jungle.”

Source: National News Agency