Jumblat to Meet Nasrallah to Explain his Foreign Visits, Latest Positions

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat is preparing to hold a meeting with Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to inform him of his foreign visits and explain his recent positions that contradict Hizbullah’s, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper on Sunday.

A leading March 14 camp official noted however that it is too soon to talk about Jumblat shifting his political positions.

“We cannot talk about this issue until the direction which Syria is headed to is clear,” he remarked.

He pointed out that the MP took positions on Syria that have gone beyond the March 14 camp’s stances.

Jumblat went so far as to describe the anti-regime protests in Syria as a revolution.

He predicted that the Druze leader will likely shift his political stances due to the “deepening of the crisis in Syria.”

The MP has realized that he is in need of holding a reconciliation with the Sunni sect because of its strong demographic role in parliamentary elections, said the March 14 official.

In addition, Jumblat is worried that the Druze in Syria may soon be dragged into the unrest in Syria as part of “the regime’s plan B” to create sectarian strife to prolong its stay in power, stated the March 14 official.

The MP voiced his fears over a recent clash that took place between Druze and Sunnis in the town of Qatna in Syria, he added.

It was followed by suggestions to arm the Druze in Lebanon and Syria in order to defend the Resistance agenda in both countries, “which is a line of action that Jumblat vehemently opposes,” revealed the official.