Obama’s Orders to President Suleiman Flagrant Assault on Sovereignty

Local Editor

US President Barack Obama's phone call to his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman was merely art of the US plot for the region.

The blatant intervention in the parliamentary elections and the formation of the government, as well as the overdone routine of the so-called "Hizbullah intervention in Syria" were all present in the phone call's agenda. This call took on many implications particularly when March 14 forces pleaded Washington to pressure the Lebanese PM and President to quickly form a new government based on Western requisites.

On this note, the latest US step was described by the strategic expert Amine Hoteit as an attempt to retrieve balance in the region to the interest of Syria's opposing axis.
"The chief of the aggression on Syria, Barack Obama, made this phone call to rebalance the general strategic scene in the region following the collapse of this front from al-Quseir's gate; the strategic results of the battle there exceed the city and reach the backbone of the aggression. Consequently, Obama wanted to form a sort of strategic balance," Hotiet told al-Ahed News website.

Moreover, Hoteit stressed that Obama "seeks to restore the 2005 scene in Lebanon through a government compliant to the US Embassy and a parliament devoted to political money and sectarian provocations, especially with March 14's total submission to the US Embassy in Lebanon. Just then would the American power led by Jeffery Feltman [the UN's Under-Secretary-General of Political Affairs] be restored."

"We expect the Lebanese government to take the Lebanese reality into consideration, because we are dealing with this phone call with extreme caution," he added, warning that "complying to US orders will cause a fire in Lebanon."

Minister Shokr: Obama's Call A Flagrant Assault

For his part, Head of the Baath party in Lebanon, former Minister Fayez Shokr believed that Obama's phone call, which complained about "Hizbullah's intervention in Syria" and insisted on holding elections on time, is "a flagrant assault on Lebanese sovereignty."

In an interview with al-Ahed News, Shokr dismissed the circulating phrase "Hizbullah's intervention in Syria", stating, "Hizbullah is a large political strategic organization, and is concerned with events in the region and everything that has to do with the Arab-"Israeli" conflict. Saying that Hizbullah is intervening in Syria is invalid, and any condemnation in this framework, whether American or Lebanese, will backfire on their owners."

Likewise, Shokr spoke of the clear US, Qatari, and Turkish support to the armed groups in Syria, questioning, "Is there a United Nations organization that could slam this barefaced intervention in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the whole Middle Eastern region?"

Source: al-Ahed News, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org