Hizbullah Expresses 'Pride' in Aoun's Arab Summit Stances

Hizbullah on Monday expressed its “pride” in President Michel Aoun's stances at the Arab League summit that was held Sunday in Tunisia.

In a statement issued by its media relations department, the party said it was proud of “the national and nationalist stances that were expressed by His Excellency President Michel Aoun regarding Lebanon, Palestine and the Golan, and his insistence on the return of Syrian refugees to their country in a manner that would preserve the interests of Lebanon and Syria.”

Hizbullah meanwhile criticized the summit's resolutions, saying “they fell too short of the seriousness of the stage that the nation is going through.”

The resolutions “did not rise to the level of tackling the U.S. resolutions that are judaizing Jerusalem and the Golan,” the party lamented.

“As the leaders of the Arab countries asserted the Arab right to recovering occupied Jerusalem and Golan, a lot of them are vigorously seeking further normalization steps with the enemy,” Hizbullah added.

Aoun on Sunday described U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Syria’s occupied Golan Heights as part of Israel as a “threat” to Lebanon’s sovereignty.

“Trump’s decision does not only threaten the sovereignty of a brotherly country, but also the sovereignty of the Lebanese state, especially in the Shebaa Farms and the Kfarshouba Hills,” Aoun warned in his speech before the 30th Arab Summit in Tunisia.

Israel had argued that the Shebaa Farms and the Kfarshouba Hills are part of the Golan whereas Lebanon has insisted that they belong to Lebanon, amid a dispute over the demarcation of the border in that area.

Separately, Aoun wondered whether the international community is seeking to turn the Syrian refugees into “hostages” in order to “use them as a tool of pressure against Syria and Lebanon.”