The Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has blamed the US administration for ordering Israel to begin the last year’s conflict with the militant group in Lebanon. Sheikh Hassan was addressing a public gathering in Beirut, capital of Lebanon. He also criticized both US and Israel for trying to stimulate civil wars in the region.
Earlier, US President George W Bush had accused Hezbollah of rousing up violence in Lebanon.
He had said that
those forces responsible for creating chaos in the region must be held to account.
Now, after one day of Bush’s statement, Sheikh Hassan replied in another remark accusing US and Israel for creating disturbance in the region.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said to tens of thousands of supporters who had gathered to mark the end of the Shia mourning period of Ashura that George Bush wants to punish you because you resisted, he wants to punish you because you won.
He blamed US for the rising problems in the region. He also said that
it was the George Bush and Condoleezza Rice who fomented chaos in Lebanon, who destroyed Lebanon, who killed women and children, old and young in Lebanon. They ordered the Zionists to launch the war on Lebanon.
He told to the crowd that the
one who must be punished, who must be tried, is the one who ordered the launching of war on Lebanon. George Bush wants to punish you because you resisted, he wants to punish you because you won.
He accused Bush and Israel for trying to overpower resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq by initiating civil wars in the Middle East region.
He said further that
Lebanon will not be defeated. We will not allow it to be invaded.We have proved that we are capable of defeating the invaders.
