![Former presidential candidate and journalist Hamdeen Sabahi in Cairo, Egypt on December 7, 2017 [Mohamed el Raai/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/20171207_2_27353186_28575087.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
The resistance in Gaza and Lebanon will not be defeated, Egyptian political leader and member of the Civil Democratic Movement, Hamdeen Sabahi, has said.
Speaking at an event titled ‘October from Victory to the Flood: Lessons from the Past, Present, and Future’ on Monday at the Journalists’ Syndicate, he said: “The resistance may suffer losses, endure strikes, and make sacrifices, but it is not likely to surrender, whether in the West Bank, Gaza, or Lebanon.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he added, declared his intention to change the Middle East and this involves the displacement of all Palestinians from their land. He said, “A regime that is excessively genocidal will not allow the people of Gaza or the West Bank to remain.”
“This project means that all the countries in the Middle East would be subservient to the entity [Israel], but this vision is entirely incompatible with Egypt,” Sabahi stressed. “Egypt’s destiny is to be a leader and a key player in the Arab region.”
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