Jumblat Advises Nasrallah to Support Syrian People, Not Assad Regime
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Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said Saturday that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah should have announced his backing for the Syrian people rather than defending the Assad regime.
“I would have hoped that for Syria’s sake he would directly address (President) Bashar Assad and tell him that Syria is more important” than anything else, Jumblat told As Safir daily.
“I wish that he told him to be realistic, particularly that there could no longer be any reform in Syria after all the bloodshed,” the Druze leader said.
During a televised speech on Thursday, Nasrallah said he was ready for unconditional dialogue with his March 14 foes and renewed his support for Assad, accusing Arab and Western states of seeking to topple the Syrian president.
Jumblat criticized a newly drafted constitution that could end nearly five decades of Baath Party rule, saying the text is an “illusion.” Syrian authorities have called for a Feb. 26 referendum on the charter.
Nasrallah’s “support for the Syrian people is much more important that his support for the regime and its deluding reform,” the PSP chief told As Safir. “Sayyed Hassan knows what I mean and I don’t want to go into a public confrontation with him.”
“But for the sake of Syria and the resistance, it’s better to accept the international consensus on a U.N. recommendation for the Syrian president to step down,” he said.
Jumblat described the central protest city of Homs as the Stalingrad of Syria. “If it falls, then Syria would fall” and have an unknown fate.
He also defended his call for a new Taef agreement, saying unlike what his critics said, he was neither backing a new social-political contract to replace the deal nor altering the balance between Christians and Muslims.
On Wednesday, Jumblat called for a new deal between Shiites and Sunnis, stressing that the Taef, which ended the Lebanese civil war in 1990, had expired.
He told As Safir on Saturday that the only way to safeguard Lebanon against the “complicated” Syrian crisis, was for officials to steer themselves clear of the dangerous repercussions of the developments in the neighboring country.
“The best and most efficient solution is to sit at the dialogue table,” Jumblat stressed, welcoming Nasrallah’s announcement that he was ready to engage in dialogue.
18 February 2012, 08:32
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I feel bad for a nation whose leaders look like this, behave like this (as if they are in a bazaar), and are always looking for positioning themselves to negotiate the curves for their own profiting and survival. Poor Lebanon, you deserve much better than that. Just like the Baath party, he is replicating himself through Timor
18 February 2012, 12:54
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the filthy zionist media terrorist wanted to look nice and civilized and than in last sentence hallucinated something about baath party.
18 February 2012, 08:48
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I agree with Jumblat..How can one with so much blood on his hands continue?? No one has more blood on their hands than you mr Jumblat & your friend Gagea. Yet I see you dont practice what you preach..poor Lebanon , with these clowns still in politics
18 February 2012, 10:15
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Just Imagine Lebanon without all these leaders. What a country would be. I have no idea from all the lebanese leaders, what purpose do they serve.
18 February 2012, 12:32
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the foxy jumblat seeking confrontation with hassoun, knowing that hizb cannot confront anybody now.. even a govermt hassin cant run...
18 February 2012, 12:37
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guys at the rate naharnet is removing posts (without any logical reason) and keeping really offensive cmments like flamethrower and jabalamel and mowaten,... it looks like the person in charge on this site is not correct.
i suggest you all beware......
18 February 2012, 12:54
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Wise Words Wally... Nasrallah should support people, not a family!
18 February 2012, 12:55
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yes we know that you are filthy zionist pretending to be lebanese.
no worry you get your rocket.
18 February 2012, 12:57
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jumblat keeps the filthy zionist media terrorists very confused.
now they must speak for him, now against him, depends on what latest comes fom jumblat's head.
i guess it must be very tiresome to work for zionist information war department.
18 February 2012, 20:31
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al manar tv does the same, one day they cuss jumblatt and one day they bless him. lol
19 February 2012, 03:38
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the filthy zionist media scum hallucinate about what al manar does, like they ever turned it on...
18 February 2012, 14:52
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Nasrallah clearly sees the protests and the aspiration of the people of Bahrain but turns a blind eye to the same aspirations of the Syrian people... Pathetic
19 February 2012, 02:20
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True...America and its Arab puppet Tyrant leaders ONLY has its EYES OPEN on SYRIA and not the aspirations of the ENTIRE ARAB WORLD!
18 February 2012, 16:31
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Jumblatt has said it directly. Constitutional reforms for Syria are a mirage. The regime does not justify itself on observing the rule of law so a constitution is a meaningless document. Reforming a meaningless document is a meaningless act.
Assad holds power by intimidation and violence if necessary against his own people. He will come down from power by only one means, force of arms. Let us not kid ourselves with the the idea that Assad would enter into any process that would result in his leaving power without the use of force of arms.
It is a ruse that is used more for the rest of the world that does not want to resort to arms so that they can claim to be doing something.
18 February 2012, 17:04
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Nassy already has Hezz troops there killing the Syrians. Truckloads of his dead fighters have come back. He can't jump to the good side now. Evil supports evil.
18 February 2012, 18:10
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The king of the copy/paste I can see. Have you go so little to say? ^^
19 February 2012, 03:39
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the filthy zionist media terrorists, who recently put same posts for 5,7, and even 10 times now accuse me of being copy/paste king.
such hypocrisy can come from zionists only.
18 February 2012, 18:12
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His advice should be to support the creation of a strong Lebanese State that abides by the constitution, a strong Lebanese army that is capable of defending the Lebanese State (instead of the Islamic resistance baloney) and a nation that speaks with one voice that is secular and just. But this is only a pipe dream as all the political sharks will then lose their power and wealth (even maybe tried for treason and stealing public funds).
18 February 2012, 20:37
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the regime mistakenly think that taking over humus is the end of the story like he thought about taking over dar3a, 7ama, rastan etc.. all these cities are not under gov. control despite all the efforts meaning that the assad army can attack, kill, injure but it can not occupy! not to mention the defections, pretty much like the israelis(lebanon), russians (afghanistan), americans(iraq) etc.. attack and fail to occupy. When you do not have the people's support you are finished. This is a classic case of urban warfare that advanced armies fail at. Today the demonstrations reached al mazi which means the "azme" is coming closer to this house rather than away, next thing you know this idiot will send his tanks to bomb damascus.
19 February 2012, 03:58
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the filthy zionist media scum calls homs "humus" and they also hallucinate that assad regime won't be able to crsuh foreign mercenaries and couple of domestic traitors.
well, he crushing them all the time.it's only that saudis and turkey are sending more. that's ok. they more they send, the more will be killed. send more.
18 February 2012, 20:39
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Did you see al Manar today, there was another speech from a Hezbollah official attaching M14 at a funeral for what they called a "martyr". Lately there have been an awful lot of similar funerals where was this and the other "martyrs" martyred? Did they die playing a Risk game while attacking Irkutsk or Kamchatka? What does Hassin scribble on the martyr certificate he offers to the family? Will the children these "martyr's" ever learn for which country did they fall.
19 February 2012, 10:59
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Jabal habal...you will evolve into a human being when you stop labeling others who disagree with your point of view as " Zionist, Hallucinating"...you are proving to everybody how ignorant you are.. people resort to unfounded accusations of other whenever they run out of arguments...just pathetic
29 February 2012, 18:04
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You guys.....You realize....wehen Lebanese BROTHERS...hate each other....fight each other and kill each other....we all lose.
America and Israel win. I don't like Jumblatt, but he raises a key point. Those who deny CIA involvement in Syria are kidding themselves. They are ignorant.
HOWEVER, those who deny that there is a legitimate revolution in Syria, are living in fantasy.
Sayed Hasan must support the Syrian people. So that the Syrian people arnt forced to work with the Zionists.
