 Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that "the occupation of Palestine is one of the greatest tragedies that befell the Arab nation."
| Yep. Right up there with the birth of Mohammad, I'd say. |
Speaking in Beirut during a ceremony to mark Al-Quds Day, Nasrallah accused Israel of planning for war by launching airstrikes against targets in Syria. "Israel wants to impose its authority on the region. The flyover in Syria is aimed at harming Syria's position" ahead of the US-sponsored peace conference in November, Nasrallah said. "No one doubts that there Israel coordinated the strike with the Americans to draw Syria into war. This is Bush's plan for the region, not a peace plan but a plan for war as he did in Iraq and Lebanon."
| Yes, we can all remember vividly how Bush started the war between Israel and Lebanon last year. |
Addressing the Arab world he said: "I wish the Arab armies would head toward Palestine, that's a dream.
| Seems to me that's how the West Bank and Gaza came to be involved in the equation, wasn't it? And the Golan Heights? And Shebaa Farms? |
"'We are a people ready to sacrifice but you have to stand by us and support us,' that's what the Palestinian people said during the intifada." | Fine. Obviously the Arabs need better leadership. Perhaps even a leader with the obvious charisma, intelligence, and favor of Allah of a person such as yourself. Lead, and we'll follow. Right behind you, is where we'll be. |
Nasrallah also called on Arab states to boycott the conference, which he said would only benefit Israel. "Had the Palestinian people been supported by the Arab world, it would have succeeded in liberating all the Palestinian lands occupied in 1967," Nasrallah added. "The Zionists established gangs through Britain's aid and occupied Palestinian land, killing, massacring, looting, destroying and establishing their state through occupation and theft," he said. |