Beirut: The fresh speeches by the United States President and the Israeli Prime Minister are the final blows to Arab peace initiative, says Hezbollah secretary general.
While addressing thousands of his supporters in the eastern village of Nabi Sheet, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday that the US and Israel have the same goals: continuation of occupation and damaging resistance.
Nasrallah said when President Obama gave his speech at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, he suggested that Israel does not have to stay behind its 1967 borders.
Obama in his Middle East speech last week insisted that the borders issue should be the basis for stalled direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He later stressed that his position reflected the stances of previous US administrations and not his own.
The secretary general also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for calling al Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of Israel.
He also criticized the Israeli Prime Minister for urging the PLA to abandon a unity deal with Hamas, saying this shows that Israel and the US do not want Palestinians to unite.
He also urged the Arab League (AL) to drop a peace initiative with Israel, presented by Saudi Arabia in 2002 which offers Israel full normalization of ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab land and the creation of a Palestinian state.
“Is it not time that this initiative be dropped as an option?” asked Nasrallah.
The Hezbollah Secretary General also urged Syrian people to “protect their country” and give a chance for the Syrian leadership to implement reforms, stressing that collapsing the Damascus regime would serve only US and Israeli interests.
“We are worried about what is being plotted for the regime in Syria and the Syrian people,” Nasrallah said adding that “President Bashar al Assad believes in reform and is serious and ready to go a long way toward reforms, but in a calm and responsible manner.”
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