Egyptian Journalist Khaled Salah Criticizes Hizbullah and Declares: The Blood of Lebanese Children More Precious Than Pictures of Khamenei in South Lebanon

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian journalist Khaled Salah, which aired on Dream2 TV on July 17, 2006.

Khaled Salah: True greatness does not lie merely in the decision to go to war. The decision to wage war is one of the easiest things. True greatness lies in protecting your people, citizens, and civilians in times of war, and in accomplishing a political victory through the use of military weapons. Entering a war without taking things into account, without planning it with the national government in Lebanon, without warning the citizens of South Lebanon that an all-out war might break out, and without guaranteeing equipment, supplies, and aid to the villages of the South - this will inevitably harm the Lebanese people, which overnight has found itself subject to the decisions of a single politician in Lebanon. Hassan Nasrallah, even though I like him, is not sacred, yet he takes all these decisions by himself. He should have consulted with the national government in Lebanon, and a warning should have been issued to the citizens, who found themselves overnight within the range of fire of a cruel and shameless enemy that uses any means to achieve its goals.

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As far as I am concerned, Arab blood and the blood of Lebanese children is much more precious than raising yellow flags [of Hizbullah] and pictures of Khamenei in Lebanon.