{"id":16283,"date":"2019-03-29T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16283"},"modified":"2019-03-29T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:20:32","slug":"west-bank-next-on-us-recognition-list-nasrallah-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/west-bank-next-on-us-recognition-list-nasrallah-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank next on US recognition list, Nasrallah warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hezbollah warns that the United States could next choose to recognize Israel\u2019s \u201csovereignty\u201d over the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank unless the Arab world springs to action.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lebanese resistance movement\u2019s Secretary General\u00a0Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued the caution during a speech on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the entire world allows [US President Donald] Trump to declare [Jerusalem] al-Quds as Israel\u2019s eternal capital, and especially the Arab world remains silent, this opens the way for all US violations,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“When institutions and International laws fail to serve the American agenda and their interest, they just simply disregard it in all disrespect, and what is called ‘the international community’\u00a0is\u00a0not able to protect any right of the people whatsoever, including land ownership and sovereignty, taking back conquered land like what happened in Golan or what happened before that in (Jerusalem) al-Quds,” Nasrallah said.<\/p>\n

Trump recognized the holy city<\/a>, which the Israeli regime occupied as part of the Palestinian territory of the West Bank during a war in 1967, as Israel\u2019s \u201ccapital\u201d in late 2017. On Monday, the US president took his second most controversial pro-Israeli action during his tenure by recognizing the regime\u2019s \u201csovereignty\u201d over Syria\u2019s Golan Heights<\/a>. Tel Aviv occupied the latter territory during the same war.<\/p>\n

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\"PressTV-Trump<\/a><\/p>\n

PressTV-Trump recognizes Israel\u2019s sovereignty over Golan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

US President Donald Trump has formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, a border area the Tel Aviv regime seized from Syria in 1967.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe must expect Trump to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank,\u201d Nasrallah added.<\/p>\n

He said such a potential move \u201cis part of the deal of the century,\u201d referring to an under-wraps Washington proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which reportedly includes outrageous violations against Palestinians\u2019 historical demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can say the Palestinian people can go and live in Gaza,\u201d the Hezbollah chief said, envisioning expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank as part of the US plan.<\/p>\n

He urged the Arab world to resort to what \u201cconscience\u201d it had left by preventing these prospects.<\/p>\n

The Arab League, Nasrallah proposed, should use its upcoming summit in Tunisia to withdraw the so-called Arab peace initiative,\u00a0proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, and instead press for more negotiation.<\/p>\n

The initiative offers normalization of ties between Israel and 22 Arab countries in return for Tel Aviv\u2019s withdrawal from the West Bank.<\/p>\n

US after \u2018civil war\u2019 in Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Separately, Nasrallah pointed to remarks made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a recent visit to Lebanon. Attending the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, the top diplomat urged that the Lebanese \u201cface\u201d Hezbollah and branded the group as an obstacle to realization of the Lebanese people\u2019s dreams.<\/p>\n

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\"PressTV-Aoun<\/a><\/p>\n

PressTV-Aoun tells Pompeo Hezbollah has popular support<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has a popular support in the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nasrallah said his movement was in the service of Lebanon\u2019s protection as has been the case during Israel\u2019s several invasions of the country. Hezbollah rather upheld the Lebanese people\u2019s dreams of retrieving the part of their land, which has been occupied by Tel Aviv, and eradication of corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs Hezbollah standing in the face of these dreams? Or is Hezbollah part of the apparatus, which people pin their hopes on,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

The Hezbollah chief also referenced the US\u2019s history of sowing instability, destruction, and bloodshed across the world through military invasion. By singling out the resistance group as the source of the country\u2019s problems, the US is rather trying to pit the Lebanese people against each other and trigger a \u201ccivil war,\u201d Nasrallah noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Pompeo) is trying to incite us and wants the Lebanese people to shed each other\u2019s blood. Pompeo is frustrated with the stability and peaceful coexistence in Lebanon,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hezbollah warns that the United States could next choose to recognize Israel\u2019s \u201csovereignty\u201d over the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank unless the Arab world springs to action. The Lebanese resistance movement\u2019s Secretary General\u00a0Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued the caution during a speech on Tuesday. \u201cWhen the entire world allows [US President Donald] Trump to declare [Jerusalem] al-Quds …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-culture","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16286,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions\/16286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}