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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Wally Jumblat Urges Dialogue, Review of People-Army-Resistance Formula
2012-11-27
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Wally Jumblat
... 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...
called on Monday for the resumption of national dialogue among the country's bickering leaders while stressing a review of a clause in the government policy statement that stresses the right of the "people, army and resistance to liberate" Lebanese territories.

Hizbullah's "arms are a major point of contention," Jumblat said at a presser he held in Mukhtara to announce an initiative that would bring back the March 8 majority and March 14 opposition alliances to the dialogue table.

"But after the resumption of dialogue there should be a new formula because we can't continue to stick to this formula that is unclear and mixes between the resistance and the army," he said.

"The state is the authority and if anyone has a magic solution to the arms, then let him inform us," Jumblat said.

The policy statement of the government says the government adheres to the right of Leb through its people, army and resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, Kfarshouba hills and the Lebanese part of the village of Ghajar.

But Jumblat rejected the liberation of Lebanese lands in inappropriate ways and criticized the so-called Ayoub drone that Hizbullah sent over Israeli territories in October to serve "things outside Leb."

"We don't want the Islamic Theocratic Republic to use Leb to improve its position in the negotiations with the U.S. the same way we don't want Arab axes to use Leb to fight" Iran, he said.

Jumblat said his initiative lies in calling on all sides to abide by the Baabda Declaration - made in June after the first national dialogue in over 18 months - in which rival politicians pledged to commit themselves to dialogue and political, security and media pacification, avoid speeches that fuel sectarian incitement and bolster stability to prevent Leb from sliding into sectarian strife.

In his initiative, Jumblat called for ending media and violent political rhetoric, and avoiding the involvement in the battle "field" of the Syrian crisis.

He stressed the initiative is part of the efforts made by President Michel Suleiman
...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
to resume the national dialogue in cooperation with Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
Contact between the March 14 opposition alliance and the Hizbullah-led March 8 majority was shaken following the Oct. 19 liquidation of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau chief Wissam al-Hasan in a car boom kaboom in Beirut's Ashrafiyeh district.

The opposition, which blamed Miqati's government and accused Syria of carrying out the killing, boycotted parliamentary activity, demanding the resignation of the cabinet, and said it would not sit at the national dialogue table with Hizbullah.
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