Hizbullah warned the United States on Saturday that it would face a definite defeat if it plunged into a confrontation with Arabs by attacking Iraq.
The Lebanese movement leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, addressing a conference in the Syrian capital on boycotting Israel and its allies, urged Arabs to stop all forms of dealing and communication with the United States and its people and comply with the traditional Arab boycott against Israel.
Nasrallah said Arabs should realize Israel is "merely a brigade in the U.S. army", suggesting that the United States was their primary enemy.
"If they (Americans) insisted on this war and confrontation ... they'll find themselves in a different type of battlefield where they don't have the ability to strike at the power balance," Nasrallah said.
"If this war broke out it would not be over in a year or two," he said arguing that no military power can win a war against Arabs because they would fight Americans in a fashion similar to the Palestinian uprising and the Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupation troops.
He said those who "entered the confrontation of this sort will be defeated even if he owned the sky and filled it with warplanes."
The Lebanese leader said: "The United States may be able to trouble governments, defeat armies and dismantle political parties" but it cannot win a war fought by individuals who have no pre-set plans or organised funding.
"Through an objective analysis I can say the American project and the U.S. military presence in the region have no future," he said.
Nasrallah also said Iraq's internal disputes should be set aside and all Arabs should band together in rejecting any U.S. military action. He said that allowing internal Arab divisions to weaken opposition to an attack against Iraq "would throw us into lethal strategic mistakes." (Albawaba.com)
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