Jumblat Warns Arabs against standing Crippled before Assad, Ahmadinejad
Druze leader Walid Jumblat warned Arab foreign ministers due to meet in Cairo on Sunday against standing helpless before Syria and Iran and called on them to salvage Lebanon from falling prey to Damascus and its Lebanese allies.
Jumblat also was skeptical about partnership with the Hizbullah-led opposition.
“We always call for partnership. We have reached out (to the opposition and called) time and again for partnership,” Jumblat told Ash-Sharq Alawsat newspaper.
“But is partnership possible with a party that doesn’t believe in it (partnership)?” Jumblat asked.
He said that “when we dared to denounce the tutelage regime … bloody messages began with a first message to (Telecommunications Minister) Marwan Hamadeh followed by various other messages (aimed at) obliterating all symbols of independence and sovereignty.”
In a separate interview with the Future News television, Jumblat accused the Syrian regime and its allies of standing behind the assassination of Capt. Wissan Eid.
He said it “is impossible for vehicles with a huge number of explosives to roam the streets without knowledge of the allies.”
“Enough lies,” Jumblat pleaded. “They neither want the army nor the intelligence bureau of the Internal Security Forces nor the government because they don’t acknowledge the state of Lebanon.”
Jumblat believed that as long as “some” Arab states feared to condemn Syria then Lebanon will not survive being torn apart by the “claws of the Syrian regime.”
He urged Arab foreign ministers as well as Arab League chief Amr Moussa to denounce Syria.
