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Hezbollah Sees Nothing New From Obama Visit

Hezbollah assesses the region after President Barack Obama's visit last month and sees little change, writes Jean Aziz.
People chant slogans while holding Syrian national flags and a placard (C) with images of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (L), Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) and Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest in support of Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo March 9, 2013. REUTERS/George Ourfalian (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3ERVA

Recently, opinions and analyses have abounded about a radical and pivotal change that has occurred in Washington’s Middle East policy, and about an American vise that has tightened to the point of choking the life out of the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah axis.

These opinions frequently cite three events that coincided with US President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel: The settlement between PKK head Abdullah Ocalan and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel’s apology to Turkey [regarding the 2010 flotilla raid], and the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati. But the opinion of Lebanese political sources with close ties to Hezbollah says otherwise, permitting them to formulate different conclusions that continue to affirm that the American president merely came to Israel for “sightseeing!”

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