 Chouf MP Walid Jumblatt called for dialogue with Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Sunday, saying the head of the resistance party was the only person deserving of dialogue.
| Now he's getting down to the real internal Lebanese nitty-gritty... |
Jumblatt, who said he was against the disarmament of Hizbullah, asked: "Will Abu Hadi [Nasrallah] join us in the path for democratic and free national independence? Let there be a dialogue and I think he [Nasrallah] alone deserves dialogue."
| "We don't want to deal with the pipsqueaks and second-stringers..." |
Speaking Sunday to visiting delegations from throughout the country, Jumblatt urged opposition demonstrators to be disciplined Monday, to raise Lebanese flags and sing the Lebanese anthem. "This way, with peaceful, democratic and civilized struggle, we will overcome hatred and be victorious," he said. "Their [the loyalists] only weapon is hatred while ours is peacefulness."
| Uhhh... Wally? They've also got those explosives. And the automatic weapons... |
Loyalists had been planning to stage a pro-Syrian demonstration in Beirut to counterbalance a massive opposition sit-in around Parliament that will demand the Prime Minister's resignation, but it was called off late Sunday. As to Monday's parliamentary vote of confidence, Jumblatt said he knew that the authorities would support confidence in the government despite the lack of the people's confidence, adding that the struggle for freedom is a long one requiring patience. Jumblatt said the Arab world was heading faster and faster toward freedom, giving the examples of the free elections in Iraq, Palestine, municipal elections in Saudi Arabia and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's initiative to review and amend the election law, paving the way for the possibility of multi-candidate polls in September.
"The Arab world is gradually changing," he said, "Why do they want to suppress our will?" |