Ayatollah Khamenei Peace

Ayatollah Khamenei: Would you make peace with one who has invaded your home?

Certainly, today’s scam used by Zionists and their supporters— the U.S. is their key supporter—is to abuse the beautiful term “peace”. Making peace, what is all this about? Yes, peace is a very good thing, but with whom and where? In an event that someone has broken into your home, by force, has beaten on you, insulted your spouse and children, and have taken up two and half rooms—out of the three rooms you owned—subsequently asking, “why do you insist on complaining to everyone, over nothing?” or “why do you keep clashing and confronting with us (the raiders)?” and afterwards say, “let’s make peace!” Is this peace?

Peace arrives once you step out of your home, if there is a disagreement, you attempt to negotiate or make peace between two parties. But, you have taken over our homes; you have committed a considerable amount of crimes here; even now, you don’t give up on transgressing whenever you can. The Zionist regime still attacks Southern Lebanon on a daily basis; they attack not the Lebanese fighters, but the villages and schools in Southern Lebanon.

Just a few days ago, the Zionist regime attacked a school in South Lebanon and killed a group of young school children! These children did not attack anyone and had not picked up a single weapon! The nature of their actions is an invasive one. The day when Zionists stepped foot onto South Lebanese soil, slaughtering people in Deir Yassin and elsewhere, no one had attacked or rendered them harm before. At least the people who were killed, had done no harm; of course a group of courageous young Arabs fought them. They objected their invasion on the same day and asked, “Why did you break into our homes and do such things?” But the people who were subjected to oppression, and forced off their farms and villages—by way of massacre—hadn’t done anything! Hence, the nature of this regime is aggression.

The Zionist regime has been established upon hounding, aggression, and committing atrocities in the first place; it continues to exist based on these same features. Without such atrocities, it would not have progressed and it never will. Now, should we make peace with such a regime? What peace? If they would have been satisfied with their rights--to leave the homes of Palestine to their rightful owners, pursue their own affairs, or asked the Palestinian government to grant permission for a few, or for all of them to stay in that country—no one would be at war with them. War ensues when they have transgressed and broken into another’s home by force; when they have forced them out of their own homes and continue to oppress them. They continue to oppress all countries within the region; hence, they are a threat to all. Moreover, they seek peace as a prelude to the next round of invasion! If peace is established, it will only serve as an excuse for them to invade and transgress in an entirely new way.

Statements made during a Friday sermon, on December 31, 1999.

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