BEIRUT, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Shiite spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said that he encourages talks with Washington, but stressed that U.S. President Barack Obama is incapable of making any change, local Elnashra website reported Sunday.

    "The U.S. president said before he was elected that he can make changes in U.S. policies, but I think he can not," Fadlallah told an American delegation who visited him in Beirut.

    The U.S. president, Fadlallah added, cannot face the congress and the Israeli lobby, stressing that "change does not come through words or desires."

    He wondered why the American administration considered Hamas movement in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon as terrorist organizations when they both were just defending their occupied territories, while did not consider the killing of 500 Palestinian children by the Israelis a terrorist act.

    He affirmed that there are no confrontations between different cultures, but rather political confrontations, stressing that he encourages talks with the U.S. in order to understand each other more.

    Fadlallah, who is the highest Shiite clergy in Lebanon, is also considered as the spiritual leader of the Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah.