Qaouq Says Hizbullah Keen on Govt. Survival despite Weak Performance
Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, deputy head of Hizbullah’s Executive Council, on Sunday said his party backs Premier Najib Miqati’s government out of “keenness on political stability and security in Lebanon and not because it is satisfied with its performance.”
The top Hizbullah official described the government’s performance as “slow, floundering and unconvincing.”
He said national duty “requires this government to work effectively and productively, away from bets on the Syrian crisis and personal and electoral calculations.”
“They are readying for electoral battles and are involved in the battles of strife in Syria,” Qaouq said of Hizbullah’s political rivals, accusing them of focusing their efforts on disarming his party.
Qaouq stressed that Hizbullah “does not underestimate any Israeli threat” and that it is “preparing itself for any confrontation” with the Jewish state.
“Some domestic parties do not want to hear the Israeli threats or see the Israeli occupation of the Kfarshouba Hills and the Shebaa Farms, the daily violation of Lebanon’s airspace and the infringement of Lebanon’s maritime oil fortunes,” he added.
“They want to see confrontations in Syria because they want to return to power at any cost and through any means,” Qaouq went on to say.
He charged that “the U.S., Israel and March 14 want to weaken the Resistance through the crisis in Syria,” describing Hizbullah as an “invincible barrier blocking the schemes of the U.S., Israel and America’s tools in Lebanon and the region.”
“Those who have entangled themselves in the Syrian crisis have turned Lebanon into an arena that is being violated by Syrian armed men,” Qaouq added.
The Hizbullah official noted that his party was “not against hosting peaceful refugees and offering them aid,” describing that as a “humanitarian and ethical issue.”
Slamming the regimes in Riyadh and Manama, Qaouq said: “Syria has set a date for halting the fight with the armed men, but when will Saudi Arabia and Bahrain declare an end to killing and oppression in Manama and (the mainly Shiite-populated eastern Saudi province of) Qatif.”
“There are crimes and an ongoing humanitarian tragedy being committed at the hands of Gulf armies against a peaceful people amid an Arab-American greenlight,” Qaouq said, in reference to Bahrain’s crackdown on the Shiite-led protest movement and the Saudi-led intervention by a Gulf Cooperation Council force that helped quell a month-long uprising.
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