Source: Daily Star, 27-03-2008
BEIRUT: Senior cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah urged the Arabs on Wednesday to get out of their "internal complications" and work on protecting the "Arab authenticity and personality in the face of the conservative US administration."
"We want the Arabs to stick to each other before claiming that some parties in the Islamic arena have thrown out their role in the region," Fadlallah said. "The Arab role can only develop through its reinforcement on the internal level in the face of US attempts to find secondary and marginal roles for some Arab countries."
Fadlallah accused the US of bringing those countries into its own system, which he said, "aspires to preserve 'Israeli' interests before drawing up any project in the region."
"If the American generals of war ... want to set the alarm for new fires, the latter will hit them before anybody else," he said.
According to Fadlallah, the US is no longer as strong as it once was.
"If the US wants to recover its strength, it will do so though a historic reconciliation with itself first, then with the Islamic and Arab peoples, and not through its planes, tanks and fleets," he said