Jumblat Urges 'Lebanese Brain' to Act before Lebanon Drowns in 'Chaos Vortex'

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Monday warned that Lebanon will further “drown” in terrorist bombings unless the “Lebanese brain” acts and innovates solutions.

Jumblat lauded “the rational call voiced by Ms. Rabab al-Sadr, the sister of missing imam Sayyed Moussa al-Sadr, in which she expressed a responsible stance, reminding of landmark remarks that were launched by the imam in 1976, through which he addressed the Lebanese brain.”

“Unless this brain acts before it's too late, Lebanon will further drown in the vortex of chaos, which is represented by the terrorist bombings that are moving from one region into another and which are not discriminating between one religion and another or one sect and another,” Jumblat added in his weekly editorial in al-Anbaa newspaper.

In an op-ed titled “A Call to the Lebanese Brain” that she published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday, Rabab al-Sadr lamented the bloody incidents that Lebanon is witnessing and the “flames that are about to burn the entire region,” urging the Lebanese to shoulder their “responsibilities.”

Since July 2013, ten bomb blasts have rocked Lebanon, six of them involving suicide bombers.

The attacks have been claimed by various jihadist groups, some of them linked to organizations fighting across the border in Syria, including al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The groups say they are targeting Hizbullah for fighting in Syria alongside the regime.

The heart of Beirut was rocked by a car bombing that killed former minister Mohammed Shatah and seven other people on December 27.

And while most of the bomb attacks targeted areas considered sympathetic to Hizbullah in the Bekaa and Beirut's southern suburbs, the northern city of Tripoli was also hit by deadly bombings in August 2013.