Jumblat Says Laying Rebel Flag on Father's Tomb Freed Him from 'Big Prison'
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said Sunday that by placing the Syrian rebel flag on his father’s tomb he had “exited the big prison of the Syrian regime.”
“I believe that when I placed the flag of the Syrian revolution on the grave of Kamal Jumblat -- who was assassinated by the Syrian regime and the bunch manipulating Syria’s fate – I believe that that had cleared my conscience and that I have exited the big prison the Syrian regime, or the pro-Assad bunch, had put us in for decades,” Jumblat said in a phone interview with Al-Arabiya television.
“The issue is not about minorities, the theory of (scaring the religious) minorities has collapsed … The Syrian regime has tried to use the theory of minorities, but the Syrian people are united in the face of tyranny and oppression,” the Druze leader added.
On Friday, Jumblat placed the Syrian rebels’ flag on the grave of his father in al-Mukhtara to mark the 35th anniversary of the assassination of the PSP’s founder.
"After 35 years, this is the day to tell the truth, to myself and to others ... Long live free Syria!" he said after placing the flag.
Jumblat stressed during the interview that “all the Syrian people -- from Jabal al-Arab to the mountains of Saleh al-Ali, and from al-Raqqa and Deir Ezzor to all other regions, to Homs, Hama and Damascus – all of them have one demand: ending oppression for the sake of dignity, freedom and decent living.”
The Druze leader said that he will do everything he can to back “every free Syrian citizen, wherever he is.”
“In Syria, there are (social) majorities that have not joined (the uprising) for objective reasons: the circumstances of fear. We must understand their circumstances. All the Syrian people will rebel soon,” he added.
Jumblat stressed that the embattled Syrian regime “has ended.”
“I send a message to the friends of this regime: to Russia which is still backing this regime with equipment, arms and U.N. vetos. It’s about time for Russia to acknowledge that the Syrian people want freedom and dignity and to stop supplying this regime with the tools of repression, murder and tyranny. It’s about time for Russia to exit its isolation and heed the will of the Syrian people and the Arab peoples,” Jumblat added.
Jumblat has become one of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fiercest critics in Lebanon by continuously slamming the Syrian regime’s deadly crackdown on dissent.
18 March 2012, 18:01
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Good move by Walid. He is a well-lubricated weathervane and knows a crumbling house of horror when he sees one.
18 March 2012, 18:38
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Oppps...now hassouna is all alone and now back up....cant wait till every m8 is hung ...
18 March 2012, 18:45
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FLOP
And he is turning around one more time
hm sounds like a song
18 March 2012, 20:11
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Good Job Ya Walid. You might have freed yourself from the Syrian prison but you have Also placed the Revolution flag on your own Tomb. Y'alla let's incourage the Muslim brother hood to take power in Syria. Than maybe they will start killing off the minority Christian and Druze population. Good job Ya Walid. What you don't realize ya Walid is the Americans don't give a shit about you or the Lebanese. They will stab u in the back like they is all their allies. That is if Syria doesn't lie you done next to your father.
18 March 2012, 20:36
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hakim and walid beik are the most couragous politicians in bilad el arz, and the individuals who are still playing the song of division between lebanese are playing the same old recipes of the criminal assad regime.
18 March 2012, 20:54
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I side with M14, yet I agree with FlameThrower. You can't free your conscience on the cheap when you have killed hundreds of innocent people in the process. While it is legitimate to support a free Syria, the least Joumblat can do is honor the memory of all the poor people he slaughtered.
18 March 2012, 21:02
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I support M14 yet agree with FlameThrower. One can't clear his conscience on the cheap and get away with murder. You cannot blame murderous Assad, and murderous he is, yet show self-indulgence when you were responsible for the murder of hundreds of innocent people.
18 March 2012, 21:51
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Flame not that we disagreed with you so much as objected to your m14 references to everything and sundry. We don't like this guy and don't trust him either, however I do recall m8 welcoming him in with open arms when he flip flopped his way back into their arms, so i guess the glass house theory applies here also.
19 March 2012, 02:59
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the filthy zionist slime and trash would like to agree or disagree something, not realizing his irrelevance.
one cannot agree nor disagree with nothing.
18 March 2012, 23:30
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This Cookie lover or looser is a master to dig history when he feels like and ignore it whenever he feels like it, it is OK to ignore the fact that certain militias remain armed same as 30yrs ago during the war under fake slogans and serving foreign masters, but others should not and must not carry any weapons otherwise they are labeled salafit, terrorist, Leb forces, extremists and etc..As one of them said get a life and a girl.
18 March 2012, 23:38
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common guys he wasnt killing christians at that time just because of his father's death...there was a a civil war blowing the country ..and innocents were being killed from both sides..so let's forget that shamefull past and live together in this lovely country..and christians common be reasonable....do you realy like Asad's system
18 March 2012, 23:46
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Looks Mowaten has negotiated a better schedule with her bosses than flamethrower. She does not work weekends since she has absolutely zero comments on the weekends and she floods this site with negativity on the weekdays. Flamethrower isn't smart enough to negotiate the same work terms as Mowaten and has to be here on the weekend desperately trying persuade people on this site that his terrorist bosses are not murderers but victims of society. Truly pathetic!
18 March 2012, 23:50
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Hahaha. Identical comments by the same guest with two different nicknames agreeing with flamethrower. Gee I wonder who could that be. You should be fired by your terrorist bosses for being a bigger idiot than they are.
19 March 2012, 00:15
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Even the placing of dung by anybody on the grave of Kamal Jumblat is more honorable than a million flags or flowers placed by the embodiment of filth Walid Jumblat even if then thousand "macheyekh" walk behind him like the jerks that they are instead of him crawling like the snake that he is all the way in the back behind them and behind the last Druze on the face of the earth. But what can you do when people who glorify filth are even lower lives than this embodiment of filth?
19 March 2012, 00:39
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You are a depraved sycophant lacking any moral code. Your parents, much to their credit, raised you right, and worked hard to instill a moral code into your decaying brain but unfortunately they failed miserably as the result before us here and now is the depravity that is you.
19 March 2012, 02:57
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the filthy zionist bandoul, slime and trash, is constantly describing himself.
19 March 2012, 01:06
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throw all the politicians in the sea! ESPECIALLY the ones close to your hearts! (brainwashing therapy).
19 March 2012, 02:59
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no he's ok.
i was thinking about calling you pathetic creature, but that would be insult to pathetic creatures.
19 March 2012, 03:00
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he maybe a joke, at least he's not pathetic zionist slime and filth like you.
19 March 2012, 05:23
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LOL FART THROWER, tozzzzz, tozzz tozzzz tozzzz tozzzz tozzzz tozz
19 March 2012, 06:06
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I gave you thumbs up on both posts. I am one M-14/15/16 who evaluates the merit of each message. We all are right at one point and wrong at some points.
19 March 2012, 06:58
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The time the Christian massacre took place at the hands of the Druze walid jomblat had no real say. He was out on his Harley. And he had no control over the reaction of the people. That is the truth you will find in the history nooks. But sure as hell doesn't make the next 10 years go away in the civil war but the time after the assassination was not in walid's control. Today the flag of the free Syrian people is a great symbol of reaching out against a hateful regime but embracing the citizens of Syria.
19 March 2012, 07:00
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Ya neon il3omallah are 9 times out of 10 from your beloved moqawama. The other 1 time it's FPM!
19 March 2012, 07:18
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the ones that did that most are your masters lady geagea and Jump-a-lot
19 March 2012, 07:23
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Jump-a-Lot, You are the king of the slime balls. The master of the sess pool farts. You sure are no Kamal; step aside and give Taimour a chance.
If the syrian regime killed you father as you said and then you were their friends for the next 20+ years killing for them, then what does that make you bozo?
19 March 2012, 07:25
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The person I disrespect the most in the world at this momemnt is this jump-a-lot fart. Even lady geagea is more respectable then him.
19 March 2012, 07:43
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Walid Jumblat, a phenomenon, a incredible jukebox with so much songs, yet you have to pay him to hear the song you like. I dont agree with people saying this man has courage, or even principles. His positions are clearly those of someone that takes advantage of a situation for his community only ( sometimes for his own life ) . Before placing the syrian revolution flag he should have placed the Lebanese flag a long time ago. Now you admit who killed your father, after all the massacres you commited , and the betrayals. If you were not a pillar of the druze community, and if people from march 8th and march 14th didnt need you as a + for legal power in the parliament, i guess both would definetely agree on ending your worthless existence.
19 March 2012, 07:47
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I recall some people here with march 14th or march 8th beeing happy when jumblat was on their side. Having power doesnt matter when its in the hands of people like Jumblat. I just want to say to everybody that they should value more a man for his convictions and cause, then for the power he might give you with flipflopping positions that caused the lives of many, because of beeing too scared to die himself. The druze community has been here since the birth of Lebanon and before. It will always stay no matter what, and Jumblat has portrayed them as cowards needing to change positions according to supposedly regional interests rather than sticking to the lebanese first scheme. I hope one day they will have a leader that gets them back to their old patriotic position, as for all Lebanese as well.
19 March 2012, 10:14
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Does anyone remember that upon the murder of Kamal Jumblatt, hundreds of Christians were slayed in one of the most horrifying genocides in Mount Lebanon history? Back then the PSP claimed the Christina militias were behind Jumbaltt assassination… sometimes histories dark humor is unbearable
19 March 2012, 11:32
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@ FT, I have to say, even though I don't agree with some of your comments, this one has caused me to think about Jumblat's motives behind his behavior. This does make sense. Good job
19 March 2012, 16:00
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Apparently jump-a-lot seeking with M14s to win 2013 elections...They can always try ;)
19 March 2012, 16:36
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Kaserwaneh: you also remember when hariri was killed how all tge Syrian workers got beat up and some killed. Little we knew at tge time it was hisballah that killed him! With tge help of at the time interior minister franjiyieh and the puppets wahab and Nasser kandeel. Yet today things look much different than that dark day. Syrian people are not the enemy, but a common human fighting for their rights. Jomblat is hated because he is not taking a side.
