CAIRO, April 19 (IslamOnline.net) - Syria will not bargain with the United States over Hizbollah in view of the latest bellicose threats against Syria after Saddam Hussein’s regime had passed into history, Hizbullah’s Spokesman Hassan Ezzudin told IslamOnline.net late Friday, April 18.

That is why “Hizbullah has no worries that Syria might be armtwisted by the US pressures and fail anti-Israeli resistance movement like Hizbollah,” he said, noting that such movements were serving as the stronghold against occupation.

The Hizbullah media official, meanwhile, ruled out that some countries, which forged strategic and diplomatic relations with Hizbullah such as Iran and some Arab countries, would pressure Syria into toeing the American line.

Ezzudin said Israel may be behind the latest string of U.S. threats against Syria, pointing out that Israel was fishing in troubled waters to provoke the U.S. into taking military action against Syria or Lebanon.

Hizbullah resistance movement was able to drove the Israeli occupation army out of the Lebanese south, except fro the Shaba farms, in May 2000.

He, however, said such pressures would prove futile given the high-profile diplomatic performance of Syria and its open dialogue with the U.S. as well as its commitment to the international legitimacy.

Qassim Quseer, a Lebanese political researcher, said Hizbullah is a close ally to Syria and Lebanon, noting that the movement’s role was not only confined to resistance against the Israeli occupation, but it also had “political and social dimensions that would enfeeble speculations that Syria would yield to the U.S. threats or marginalize Hizbullah.

Nuseer al-Asa’ad, a columnist in the Lebanese daily Al-Safeer, said the U.S. threats against Syria are primarily aimed at “redressing the power imbalance in the region, so that Syria would not emerge as a stumbling block to U.S. Mideast plans.”

“Regarding the redrawing of Iraq’s geopolitical map, the U.S. wants to exclude Syria from the region’s political landscape.

“On the so-called U.S.-drafted roadmap to settle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the U.S., in effect, is trying to brushing aside Syria in this respect, particularly it houses the offices of Palestinian resistance movements, which have some reservations on the roadmap,” he added.

Asa’ad believes that the U.S. will only exert heavy economic and diplomatic pressures on Syria rather than waging a war on it, citing the Syria Accountability Act of 2002.