Arab Countries Should Learn Lessons from Ukraine Conflict, Senior Hezbollah Official Says
A senior official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has called on Arab states that have established formal diplomatic relations with Israel to draw lessons from the Russia-Ukraine crisis, saying the unfolding conflict is the upshot of Washington’s disloyalty to its allies.
“It is necessary for pro-US elements in Lebanon to learn an abject lesson from what is taking place in Ukraine. The United States tends to provoke its allies to engage in a conflict and then leaves them alone to handle the matter,” Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, a member and deputy head of the executive council of Hezbollah, said at a ceremony on Sunday.
He added, “Our best advice to these elements before the upcoming parliamentary polls is that they should not give in to temptations of the Great Satan (the US). Our national duty in the forthcoming elections is to choose liberation of Lebanon from the shackles of American guardianship and Saudi-crafted initiatives as a high priority.”
“We are confident that we will once again witness widespread approval and strong allegiance to the resistance front in the upcoming elections. The pro-West factions in Lebanon and Arab countries that have normalized ties with the Zionist regime should consider the fate of the Ukrainian president (Volodymyr Zelensky) and learn lessons from developments in Ukraine,” Sheikh Qaouk pointed out.
On Friday, a senior Hezbollah official referred to the ongoing crisis as an example of Washington’s habit of betraying and abandoning its allies.
“The United States tends to change course and give up assistance, when it realizes its interests are at stake,” Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said.
He added that the United States and some European countries initially provoked Ukraine, but later withdrew their support and the Kiev government is confronting the Russian military campaign alone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a “special military operation” aimed at “demilitarization” of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in eastern Ukraine.
The regions broke away from Ukraine in 2014 after refusing to recognize a Western-backed Ukrainian government that had overthrown a democratically-elected Russia-friendly administration.
More than 14,000 people have been killed so far across the regions as a result of the conflict that ensued between the Ukrainian military and the pro-Russian separatists.
Announcing the operation, Putin said the mission was aimed at “defending people who for eight years are suffering persecution and genocide by the Kiev regime.”
Elsewhere in his remarks on Sunday, Sheikh Qaouk said Hezbollah has managed to expand its military capabilities both quantitatively and qualitatively, stressing that the resistance movement has become stronger than ever.
He stated that the Tel Aviv regime knows well that the most serious threat to its existence is Hezbollah, and the recent flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle over Israeli-occupied territories was a clear manifestation of such a fact.
The president of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, which is the political wing of Hezbollah in the Lebanese parliament, has said the resistance movement’s deterrent power has struck horror in the heart of the Israeli regime.
Mohammad Raad hailed the Hassan drone as one of Hezbollah’s outstanding military achievements which will prevent Israel from staging attacks against Lebanon, saying the drone was merely a small part of weapons produced by the resistance group to protect Lebanon against Israel.
He underlined that Hezbollah defends the entire Lebanon and is standing by the side of the Lebanese people amid a financial and economic crisis in the Arab country.
Source: Press TV