Jumblat: Hezbollah defending Lebanon, 1701 can be revived
Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has noted that “Hezbollah is defending Lebanon,” while describing Israel as “Lebanon’s historic enemy.”
“When the war started in the south, I said that we should not get involved or that Hezbollah should not get implicated in the war, but the war started,” Jumblat said in an interview with the BBC.
“Hezbollah is defending Lebanon. We always forget that there is a historic enemy for Lebanon that had violated the south numerous times between the 1950s and the 1960s,” the Druze leader added.
He however said that U.N. Security Resolution 1701 “has not died and can be revived,” on the condition that there be “parallel arrangements on both sides of the border and a grounding of the drones and warplanes that are bombing the south and assassinating its people.”
Source: Naharnet
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