Syrian envoy questions Jumblatt’s “lecturing”

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Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali told NBN television on Tuesday that “he tries to find an explanation to some of Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt’s recent statements.”

“Syria is best suited to diagnose its own problems … some comments sound like lecturing, but maybe it is others who need lecturing” Ali said in reference to Jumblatt.

Jumblatt said in an interview published in As-Safir newspaper last Friday that he maintains his position that the Syrian regime should implement “quick reforms.”

The Syrian envoy was asked about the incursion of the two Syrian army tanks into the Lebanese village of Arsal earlier on Tuesday, he claimed that “he did not hear about this incident,”but then added :“There is full cooperation with the Lebanese army regarding chasing criminals.”

Two Syrian army tanks crossed the border into eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, reportedly as part of a search for activists or army defectors who have fled the countryand the east and shelled the battery factory which is located about 4 kilometers from the Lebanese border with Syria,” Lebanon’s LBC satellite channel reported.

March 14 outraged

The Lenbanese opposition was outraged by the Syrian incursion

March 14 MP Mouin Merhebi said on Wednesday that President Michel Suleiman and the Lebanese army did not intervene when the Syrian army “entered Lebanese territories and forced an entry into citizens’ houses.”

“This is utterly shameful and unbearable,” Merhebi told Free Lebanon Radio.

The MP also said that “he thinks all March 14 [parties] will support the Syrian National Council [SNC], because it represents around 80 percent of the Syrian people.”

“We respect the Syrian people’s choice,” he added.

Members of various Syrian opposition movements meeting in Istanbul said in a statement on Sunday they had formed a common front uniting all groups that oppose the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Assad’s troops have cracked down on protests against almost five decades of Baath Party rule which broke out mid-March, killing over 2,700 people, according to the UN Human Rights Council.

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7 responses to “Syrian envoy questions Jumblatt’s “lecturing””

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    While we often try to find reason in Jumblatt’s ramblings, no-one is going to worry that the Syrian Idiot-Envoy finds this one uncomfortable or feels he’s being lectured. He IS being lectured. And SHOULD be lectured by ALL Lebanese politicians.
    The cabinet should be putting out a ‘demand’ for an explanation. “Fired on local villagers” ????
    But of course, if Syria still sees Lebanon as one of it’s ”provinces’ and thinks it can send a tank or two in anytime it wishes, we can see how much Hezzy ‘protection’ has produced for the country.
     If this was a ‘normal’ relationship between two countries, this would be considered an act of war – and if they truly did not wish to go to that level, then the apologies, explanations and slapping of wrists of the Syrian army should be swift and sure. AND IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN !
    Jumblatt on this one needs to be MORE forceful in demanding the explanation. Or call to dump that Envoy out – along with the ambassador.
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    BEIRUT: Syrian tanks entered the Bekaa border area of Arsal and fired in the direction of an abandoned factory Tuesday, reported the National News Agency.
    The agency said the tanks fired at a batteries factory in the area, thinking that armed men were hidden within the facilities.
    Sources told The Daily Star that the Syrian Army has over the last three days made repeated entries in the country for brief periods of time.
    On Sunday, Syrian Army tanks entered the same area and fired on local villagers, before returning back across the border.
    (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News : dailystar(dot)com(dot)lb) 
    ——
    I’d like to see them try that on the Turkish border … at least the Turks know where the line is. Ergodan has made proper statements about Assad, who’s thuggish army dares not send even one soldier over that line. Sending TANKS to catch a criminal is so ‘over-the-top’ it would be laughable … if it were true. Shelling even an abandoned factory in another country is an act of aggression – pure and simple.
    Unless, of course, Lebanon really is a province of Syria. In which case, that expensive cabinet is not needed.

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    Anonymous

    While we often try to find reason in Jumblatt’s ramblings, no-one is going to worry that the Syrian Idiot-Envoy finds this one uncomfortable or feels he’s being lectured. He IS being lectured. And SHOULD be lectured by ALL Lebanese politicians.
    The cabinet should be putting out a ‘demand’ for an explanation. “Fired on local villagers” ????
    But of course, if Syria still sees Lebanon as one of it’s ”provinces’ and thinks it can send a tank or two in anytime it wishes, we can see how much Hezzy ‘protection’ has produced for the country.
     If this was a ‘normal’ relationship between two countries, this would be considered an act of war – and if they truly did not wish to go to that level, then the apologies, explanations and slapping of wrists of the Syrian army should be swift and sure. AND IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN !
    Jumblatt on this one needs to be MORE forceful in demanding the explanation. Or call to dump that Envoy out.
    ——–
    BEIRUT: Syrian tanks entered the Bekaa border area of Arsal and fired in the direction of an abandoned factory Tuesday, reported the National News Agency.
    The agency said the tanks fired at a batteries factory in the area, thinking that armed men were hidden within the facilities.
    Sources told The Daily Star that the Syrian Army has over the last three days made repeated entries in the country for brief periods of time.
    On Sunday, Syrian Army tanks entered the same area and fired on local villagers, before returning back across the border.
    (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News : dailystar(dot)com(dot)lb)

  3. only compliments please,,,no lectures or criticizms accepted at this difficult time for righteous syria.

  4. only compliments please,,,no lectures or criticizms accepted at this difficult time for righteous syria.

  5. God knows, that Mr. Jumblatt comes out with comments form loeft and right field. But this time I agree with him. if the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim did not underatand what “Syria is best suited to diagnose its own problems”. then it is no wonder why Syria is all messed up. Once and for all, it is for weach country whether Syria, Lebanon, Libya or whichever to start being … (suited to diagnose their own problems and resolve them in a fair way… (yes fair way), even if it means stepping down from their castles and let the peole rule. But for all of them, it is easier to live in denial and to burry their heads in the SAND… (OR SOME DARKER PALCES), and make themselves believe that they are the best leaders for their people. The protesting Syrians are not terrorists or outsiders. It is the leaders who are terrorist… The Syrains are normal everyday people who decided to livfe up to theirbelief that they deserve better leaders, and a government that works for them…
    The only terrorist in Syria and other countries like Syria are the leadres themselves, and the people have decided enough terrorism on their own lives and decided to fight the terrorists themselves…
    Why is it so hard for the Arab leaders to understand that simple equation?  

  6. God knows, that Mr. Jumblatt comes out with comments form loeft and right field. But this time I agree with him. if the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim did not underatand what “Syria is best suited to diagnose its own problems”. then it is no wonder why Syria is all messed up. Once and for all, it is for weach country whether Syria, Lebanon, Libya or whichever to start being … (suited to diagnose their own problems and resolve them in a fair way… (yes fair way), even if it means stepping down from their castles and let the peole rule. But for all of them, it is easier to live in denial and to burry their heads in the SAND… (OR SOME DARKER PALCES), and make themselves believe that they are the best leaders for their people. The protesting Syrians are not terrorists or outsiders. It is the leaders who are terrorist… The Syrains are normal everyday people who decided to livfe up to theirbelief that they deserve better leaders, and a government that works for them…
    The only terrorist in Syria and other countries like Syria are the leadres themselves, and the people have decided enough terrorism on their own lives and decided to fight the terrorists themselves…
    Why is it so hard for the Arab leaders to understand that simple equation?  

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