Jumblat Advises Hizbullah to Allow STL Funding, Defend Suspects in Court
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Thursday advised Hizbullah to allow Premier Najib Miqati’s government to pay Lebanon’s annual 49% share of funds to the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
“We’ve heard Hizbullah describing the suspects (in the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri) as ‘sacred’, but they must understand that those who were martyred, starting from Rafik Hariri all the way to (slain MP) Antoine Ghanem … are also ‘sacred’,” Jumblat said in an interview on Al-Arabiya television.
“Why don’t they go defend themselves in court?” Jumblat suggested, warning that “boycotting the tribunal would harm Lebanon.”
Addressing the crisis in neighboring Syria, Jumblat said he was “against using Lebanon against Syria and vice versa.”
“We respect the Syrian security forces, but they also have to respect the Lebanese security forces,” Jumblat said when asked about recent controversy on the abduction of Syrian dissidents in Lebanon.
“I’m with security and military coordination between Lebanon and Syria, but it should have regulations,” Jumblat stressed.
He called for a “settlement” between President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its opponents, but underlined “the need to prevent foreign intervention.”
“The Syrian people is capable of reaching a new Syria. I’m with a political settlement in Syria and it should be implemented in an appropriate manner,” the Druze leader added.
He also said he was not opposed to “the intervention of some influential powers such as Turkey and Iran in Syria should the Arab League deem that as necessary to stop the bloodshed.”
On the other hand, he urged Assad to “accept the Arab League’s initiative” to end the violence.
“We’re not betting on the fall of the Syrian regime, but rather on reforms that would stop the bloodshed. I urge the Lebanese parties to sit together and engage in dialogue over how to protect Syria and I believe that Hizbullah will benefit the most in that case,” Jumblat noted.
Asked about his relation with former premier Saad Hariri, Jumblat said: “We exchange holiday greetings and we are former allies. We did not part because of a dispute over the principle of the tribunal, but rather over regional alliances and the fear of civil strife.”
“Hariri and I should both help Syria exit its crisis by endorsing the Arab League’s paper,” he called on his former ally.
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10 November 2011, 21:57
Jumblat: We’re not betting on the fall of the Syrian regime, but rather on reforms that would stop the bloodshed. I urge the Lebanese parties to sit together and engage in dialogue over how to protect Syria and I believe that Hizbullah will benefit the most in that case.
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10 November 2011, 21:53
Jumblat: I urge Assad to accept the Arab League’s initiative.
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10 November 2011, 21:51
Jumblat: Should the Arab League deem the intervention of some influential powers such as Turkey and Iran in Syria as necessary to stop the bloodshed, then why not?
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10 November 2011, 21:51
Jumblat on the Syrian crisis: There should be a settlement. I stress the need to prevent foreign intervention and the Syrian people is capable of reaching a new Syria. I’m with a political settlement in Syria and it should be implemented in an appropriate manner.
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10 November 2011, 21:49
Jumblat: Hariri and I should both help Syria exit its crisis by endorsing the Arab League’s paper.
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10 November 2011, 21:48
Jumblat on his relation with Hariri: We exchange holiday greetings and we are former allies. We did not part because of a dispute over the principle of the tribunal, but rather over regional alliances and the fear of civil strife.
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10 November 2011, 21:41
Jumblat: We’ve heard Hizbullah describing the suspects as “sacred”, but they must understand that those who were martyred, starting from Rafik Hariri all the way to Antoine Ghanem … are also “sacred” and I advise them to allow the funding (of the STL). Why don’t they go defend themselves in court?
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10 November 2011, 21:38
Jumblat: I’m with security and military coordination between Lebanon and Syria, but it should have regulations.
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10 November 2011, 21:37
Jumblat: Boycotting the tribunal would harm Lebanon and I’m against using Lebanon against Syria and vice versa.
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10 November 2011, 21:35
Jumblat: The army has no right to go to Damascus without informing the Lebanese government beforehand, and unfortunately security agencies in Lebanon have always enjoyed freedom of movement without the government’s knowledge.
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10 November 2011, 21:34
Jumblat: The various security agencies must unite their efforts under the supervision of the president.
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10 November 2011, 21:33
Jumblat: We respect the Syrian security forces, but they also have to respect the Lebanese security forces.
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10 November 2011, 21:32
Jumblat on the issue of Syrian dissidents abducted in Lebanon: According to reports, Shebli al-Aysamy was kidnapped when he rejected a settlement with the Syrian regime.
10 November 2011, 22:37
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Jumblat: We’ve heard Hizbullah describing the suspects as “sacred”, but they must understand that those who were martyred, starting from Rafik Hariri all the way to Antoine Ghanem … are also “sacred” and I advise them to allow the funding (of the STL). Why don’t they go defend themselves in court?
That is what I always said, he must have been reading my posts here.... lol
10 November 2011, 23:11
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Jumblat: We’re not betting on the fall of the Syrian regime, but rather on reform
of course almost everyone knows any reforms signal the end of the regime Jumblatt knows it, Assad knows it, Aoun plays with his angry bird.
11 November 2011, 01:46
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What language does this embodiment of filth understand? No funding means NO, NADA, ZILCH, LA2, NON, OKHI, NICHT, לא
