Speaker Nabih Berri slams Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Hezbollah condemns US President Barack Obama’s remarks

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday lashed out at a speech given by Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly, saying it was filled with “contempt” and “grudge.”

In a statement he released, Berri stressed that Hezbollah doesn’t preside over the UN Security Council nor do President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati. He noted that “it’s a matter of time that the world realizes that the organization might have the time to avenge its dignity and understand that Israel can’t stay above the law and above accountability.”

“Lebanon that resisted and defeated the Israeli aggression in the south will be the resistant in the Security Council, biased to the side of the right,” Berri said. He noted that Netanyahu’s history has a “track record filled with crimes and murders.”

Netanyahu on Friday claimed, during his speech before the General Assembly, that Hezbollah controls Lebanon and the Security Council also.

HEZBOLLAH SLAMS OBAMA
Also on Friday, Hezbollah slammed US President Barack Obama on his address to the UN General Assembly, saying that his speech showed a complete bias to the Zionist entity on the issue of the recognition of a Palestinians state. “It was not surprising to hear]the absolute bias toward the Zionist entity in US President Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly which included a threat to veto efforts by the Palestinian Authority to announce the establishment of a Palestinian state,” the Resistance group said in a statement.

Addressing the annual meeting of the General Assembly in New York Wednesday, Obama forcefully defended his opposition to the Palestinians’ plan to seek statehood recognition from the UN Security Council, though without directly calling on the Palestinians to drop the bid, or offering a clear path forward in its place.

Hezbollah said Obama’s remarks reflected his administration’s true stance toward the Arab revolutions “because the position on the Palestinian issue and the rights of the deprived Palestinian people is the real test for all those who call for democracy and justice.”

“When the person(s) fails to be on the side of these rights, they naturally place themselves among the ranks of the oppressors … of the rights of peoples wherever they may be in the world.”