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Bush visit 'a black day for Arabs'
10/01/2008 07:22 - (SA)
Beirut - The leader of Hezbollah said on Wednesday that US President George Bush's visit to the Middle East marked a black day in the history of Arabs and Muslims.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Bush, who arrived in Israel at
the start of a regional tour, was deceiving Arabs by trying to
depict Iran, not Israel, as their enemy.
"We must record that today is a black day in the history of
the Arab region and in the history of our Arab and Muslim
nation," Nasrallah told a Shi'ite Muslim religious gathering to
the chants of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel".
Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, is a sworn enemy of
Israel and is on Washington's terrorist list. It fought a 34-day
war with Israel last year and backs militant Palestinian groups.
Bush is in the region to push Israeli-Palestinian peace and
to discuss Iran's nuclear programme.
"Bush comes to the region practicing the largest deception
operation in history by saying that he is coming to protect
Arabs and especially Gulf states from Iran," Nasrallah said.
Nasrallah criticised Bush for expressing his full support of
Israel. "Bush the deceiver does not protect Arabs from the real,
daily murderer while he claims he wants to protect them from a
presumed enemy."
- Reuters
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