Walid WallyJumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
on Monday described the rare double veto used by Russia and China to block a resolution condemning Syria as a "slap in the face of the Syrian people," urging the Lebanese state to "aid the Syrian refugees" instead of staging "airborne military parades in the northern border areas."
In his weekly column in al-Anbaa newspaper, his party's mouthpiece, Jumblat said the vetos "destroyed what's left of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
's initiative which tried to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria."
The Arab solution would put an end to autocracy and help Syria transit to "pluralism, democracy and diversity, away from the fake promises of reform which have not and will not be fulfilled," Jumblat added.
"The policy of disassociation is maybe useful at the Arab and international forums due to the sensitivity of Leb's stance towards the Syrian crisis, but it is not appropriate in dealing with the Syrian refugees," the Druze leader noted.
He stressed that "it is past time for the (Lebanese) state authorities to acknowledge their existence, as they are afflicted people who need help and all kinds of medical, social and humanitarian aid."
Jumblat said that such a step "would be better than the airborne military parades in the northern border areas," wondering "have we forgotten that the Syrian people had hosted tens of thousands of Lebanese refugees during the (2006) Israeli aggression against Leb?"
The Lebanese army deployed on Saturday in the northern border area of Wadi Khaled after media outlets reported that members of the rebel Free Syrian Army were present in the region.