[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s main Druze leader, 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 Sunday publicly confirmed his son Taymour as his political heir, extending the tradition of dynastic politics that plays a big part in the country’s sectarian government.
Jumblat, the leading politician of the minority Druze community, took off his Paleostinian koufieh scarf and placed it on the shoulders of his son at a televised rally in the town of Moukhtara in the Chouf mountains.
"Walk forward with your head held high, and carry the legacy of your grandfather," Jumblat told his son at the event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the liquidation of Walid Jumblat’s father, Kamal Jumblat.
Speaking to Rooters, Jumblat said the scarf symbolized the issues he wanted his son to fight for and defend: Paleostine, "Arab, progressive Leb" and reconciliation with Christians, whom the Druze fought in the 1975-90 civil war.