Loyalty to Resistance Bloc Rejects Possible Syria Strike as 'Organized Terrorism'

Hizbullah on Thursday condemned plans for U.S.-led military action against Damascus as an “aggression” and “organized terrorism,” warning that it would pose a “threat to regional and international peace and security.”

In a statement issued after its periodic meeting in Haret Hreik, the party's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc stressed that any strike is “rejected and condemned by all standards, regardless of its alibis or limits, and it will not be able to conceal its objectives, which are aimed at reviving the Israeli arm again and attempting to tighten the Western colonial grip on the region and its fortunes.”

“The U.S. administration's resorting to the phase of direct involvement in the aggression against Syria confirms our belief that the crisis that hit this brotherly country more than two years ago was only one episode of the conspiratorial, strategic foreign scheme seeking to impose its hegemony on the region,” the bloc added.

Turning to the domestic political scene, Loyalty to Resistance held the rival March 14 camp “fully responsible for the current situation, due to its insistence on impeding the parliamentary sessions and the cabinet formation process,” accusing the coalition of hindering Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam's efforts through “crippling preconditions.”

The bloc added that March 14 camp was “rejecting real partnership and deliberately causing a power vacuum as it bets on changes it mistakenly thinks will give it the right chance to monopolize power.”

Loyalty to Resistance accused the rival coalition of “counting on the hostile world powers and their proxies with the aim of subjugating the Lebanese to the policies of the axis of submission and normalization with the Israeli enemy, and making changes to the ruling authorities in Lebanon in a manner that suits and serves the policies of this axis on the one hand and the mentality of monopolization and unilateralism on the other hand.”

The bloc blamed the deterioration in the security situation on March 14's “shunning of national dialogue; rejection of the permanently needed harmony among the army, people and resistance; unrealistic interpretation of some of the Baabda Declaration stipulations; insistence on the rhetoric of sectarianism and elimination; support for the chaos of seditious weapons; and heavy involvement in the anti-Syria axis.”

It also accused the coalition of “deepening the rift among the Lebanese ... weakening the economy, inciting the social components against each another, dragging the country into a social contract crisis and creating a dangerous flaw at the level of abiding by the national choices and principles.”