Jumblatt: Arab peoples can no longer tolerate autocratic rulers

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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt wrote in his weekly column in Al-Anbaa newspaper that the Arab peoples can no longer tolerate autocratic parties and rulers.

“The Arab peoples can no longer tolerate autocratic parties and rulers, and the freedom fighters and revolutionaries in all countries do not buy anymore the obsolete rhetoric that was used for years to control the masses.”

He was referring to the Arab Spring and specifically the Syrian uprising against the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad and the Baath party which has been in power for over 42 years.

He warned that the uprising in Syria might “descend into civil war if the bloodshed continues.”

He stressed that no one is anymore buying the persistent attempts to link terrorism to pro-democracy peaceful protesters.

Assad has been attempting to promote the pro-democracy protests in Syria as terrorism by armed groups .

Jumblatt reiterated that the Arab League initiative was the most appropriate solution to the Syrian crisis, at the same time he urged Iran to “take some kind of initiative towards the Syrian people who stood by the Iranian revolution against the Shah regime in the seventies and against Saddam Hussein’s attacks in the eighties.”

He also called on Russia to “launch a political initiative together with the countries concerned in order to pull Syria out of this crisis.”

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45 responses to “Jumblatt: Arab peoples can no longer tolerate autocratic rulers”

  1. Sebouh80 Avatar

     Honestly I do not understand Jumblatt. His family dynasty  has been ruling a respective community for more then 400 years in a pretty much  autocratic manner.

    So if I were you I would have kept my mouth shut.

    1. Hannibal Avatar

      lol… bechouf el nasra be 3ayn ghayro bass ma be chouf el khashbe be 3ayno (The chouf pun not intended) hahahahahahahaha…

  2.  Avatar

     Honestly I do not understand Jumblatt. His family dynasty  has been ruling a respective community for more then 400 years in a pretty much  autocratic manner.

    So if I were you I would have kept my mouth shut.

    1.  Avatar

      Yes Sebouh … although he may be close to the truth, he kind of puts his foot in it again when he uses lines like:
      “…. the obsolete rhetoric that was used for years to control the masses.” – because right there he takes a shot at ALL the religions that ever were invented. 🙂  Dangerous thinking indeed. 😉

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        Was ‘thinking’ actually involved?

    2. lol… bechouf el nasra be 3ayn ghayro bass ma be chouf el khashbe be 3ayno (The chouf pun not intended) hahahahahahahaha…

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        good one

  3. I am happy at least now they are wake up..

  4. I am happy at least now they are wake up..

  5. prophettt Avatar

    How has He controlled his own masses for all these years? 
     Why does he get ticked off when another Druze leader gain some support among Druze community?
     “Jumblat” became synonymous with the term hypocrisy. He sticks his finger up in the air every morning in order to fell the direction of the wind ,and accordingly He goes.
    Worse, is His courage(waquaha) to preach  exactly the opposite of what he had preached a day earlier.
    Kalam haqu urad behe botel.

    Yalee Istahouu Matoo.

    1. for once I can say I agree completely with your comment!

    2. for once I can say I agree completely with your comment!

  6.  Avatar

    How has He controlled his own masses for all these years? 
     Why does he get ticked off when another Druze leader gain some support among Druze community?
     “Jumblat” became synonymous with the term hypocrisy. He sticks his finger up in the air every morning  to fell which way the wind is blowing,and accordingly He goes.
    Worse, is His courage(waquaha) to preach  exactly the opposite of what he had preached a day earlier.
    Kalam haqu urad behe botel.

    Yalee Istahouu Matoo.

    1.  Avatar

      for once I can say I agree completely with your comment!

  7. antar2011 Avatar

    anyone would feel disgusted reading his comments here while not forgetting his famous speech announcing his seperation from march 14…talking in the name or arabism and resistance….

    he is no different…but how can he get away for being so contradictory i have no idea!

    1. MeYosemite Avatar
      MeYosemite

      He wanted to get paid 2million/year to be on the march 14 team. Harriri senior paid that much. The offer he got from junior was one million.

      1. antar2011 Avatar

        if there is no proof or even news report for that claim then i will consider your comments as garbage.

        1. MeYosemite Avatar
          MeYosemite

          There was an article on this a year ago, not my job to prove it; You can search for it yourself. Regardless, I don’t care what you would consider. You could simply have asked if the source was a public news without your judgement.

          1. antar2011 Avatar

            my judgement?…. you are simply claiming something serious about a martyr and former prime minister with absolutely no concern to providing any source/link/anything to your claims and you are upset because of my ‘judgment”…. you can talk all you like and believe all you like, i respect your right to do so but don’t wait for anyone to take your Gossiping serious…
            geez you sounded like oe of those tabloids media outlets that no one thinks their reporting are credible or lest serious.

        2. MeYosemite Avatar
          MeYosemite

          Here you go ignoramus:JUMBLATT WANTS HARIRI TO OPEN HIS WALLETid: 75517date: 8/21/2006 4:13refid: 06BEIRUT2705origin: Embassy Beirutclassification: CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNdestination: 06BEIRUT2705header:VZCZCXRO5436OO RUEHAG RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHKUKDE RUEHLB #2705/01 2330413ZNY CCCCC ZZHO 210413Z AUG 06FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUTTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5156INFO RUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITYRHMFISS/CDR USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITYRHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC PRIORITYRHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITYRUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO PRIORITY 0133RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 1002
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          C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BEIRUT 002705
          SIPDIS
          NOFORNSIPDIS
          NSC FOR ABRAMS/DORAN/MARCHESE/SINGH/HARDING
          E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/19/2016TAGS: PREL, PTER, CVIS, SY, ISSUBJECT: LEBANON: JUMBLATT WANTS HARIRI TO OPEN HIS WALLET
          Classified By: Jeffrey D. Feltman, Ambassador. Reason: 1.4(d)
          SUMMARY——–

          5. (C/NF) Making a rough calculation, Jumblatt said that15,000 housing units need to be rebuilt which, at $12,000 perunit, comes to $180,000,000. (Others have estimated about$40,000 per unit.) Rounding up, Jumblatt declared, “200million! It’s peanuts, pocket money for the Hariri family!”Jumblatt said that Saad Hariri needs to start spending hismassive fortune as his late father, Rafiq, had done. Notingthat Hizballah is handing out money for rebuilding even inthe heavily-Sunni northern city of Akkar and also that150,000 Sunni IDPs had fled their homes in the Biqa’ valleyfor Syria, where they had been well-treated, Jumblatt saidthat Saad needs to shore up his support in the Lebanese Sunnihinterlands before these Sunnis start switching theirallegiance to the pro-Syria cause. “We don’t need democracynow,” said Jumblatt; “We need money.” Jumblatt lamented thatwhile Saad had finally supplied him with $1 million lastweek, he said that, “This is peanuts. I can speand it in twoto three months.” (Note: Jumblatt has told us before thatRafiq Hariri provided Jumblatt with about $3 million a yearfor Druse patronage, which probably explain Joumblatt’singratitude. End Note.)

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          1. antar2011 Avatar

            thank you for that. even of i have few doubts about a wiki source [especially this one..as Feltman saying what Jumblatt has told him….sounds like chinese whispers….no one asked Harriri himself!] but i thank you for taking the time to post a source to support your claim.

      2. not only is he a coward but also a whore to the top bidder…sold out his nation, a real shame…Since the speech he gave during the first cedar revolution rally he’s been declining rapidly…

    2. MeYosemite Avatar
      MeYosemite

      He wanted to get paid 2million/year to be on the march 14 team. Harriri senior paid that much. The offer he got from junior was one million.

      1. antar2011 Avatar

        if there is no proof or even news report for that claim then i will consider your comments as garbage.

        1. MeYosemite Avatar
          MeYosemite

          There was an article on this a year ago, not my job to prove it; You can search for it yourself. Regardless, I don’t care what you would consider. You could simply have asked if the source was a public news without your judgement.

  8.  Avatar

    anyone would feel disgusted reading his comments here while not forgetting his famous speech announcing his seperation from march 14…talking in the name or arabism and resistance….

    he is no different…but how can he get away for being so contradictory i have no idea!

    1.  Avatar

      He wanted to get paid 2million/year to be on the march 14 team. Harriri senior paid that much. The offer he got from junior was one million.

      1.  Avatar

        if there is no proof or even news report for that claim then i will consider your comments as garbage.

        1.  Avatar

          There was an article on this a year ago, not my job to prove it; You can search for it yourself. Regardless, I don’t care what you would consider. You could simply have asked if the source was a public news without your judgement.

          1.  Avatar

            my judgement?…. you are simply claiming something serious about a martyr and former prime minister with absolutely no concern to providing any source/link/anything to your claims and you are upset because of my ‘judgment”…. you can talk all you like and believe all you like, i respect your right to do so but don’t wait for anyone to take your Gossiping serious…
            geez you sounded like oe of those tabloids media outlets that no one thinks their reporting are credible or lest serious.

        2.  Avatar

          Here you go ignoramus:JUMBLATT WANTS HARIRI TO OPEN HIS WALLETid: 75517date: 8/21/2006 4:13refid: 06BEIRUT2705origin: Embassy Beirutclassification: CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNdestination: 06BEIRUT2705header:VZCZCXRO5436OO RUEHAG RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHKUKDE RUEHLB #2705/01 2330413ZNY CCCCC ZZHO 210413Z AUG 06FM AMEMBASSY BEIRUTTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5156INFO RUEHEE/ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE PRIORITYRUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITYRHMFISS/CDR USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITYRHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC PRIORITYRHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITYRUEHNO/USMISSION USNATO PRIORITY 0133RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 1002
          —————– header ends —————-
          C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BEIRUT 002705
          SIPDIS
          NOFORNSIPDIS
          NSC FOR ABRAMS/DORAN/MARCHESE/SINGH/HARDING
          E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/19/2016TAGS: PREL, PTER, CVIS, SY, ISSUBJECT: LEBANON: JUMBLATT WANTS HARIRI TO OPEN HIS WALLET
          Classified By: Jeffrey D. Feltman, Ambassador. Reason: 1.4(d)
          SUMMARY——–

          5. (C/NF) Making a rough calculation, Jumblatt said that15,000 housing units need to be rebuilt which, at $12,000 perunit, comes to $180,000,000. (Others have estimated about$40,000 per unit.) Rounding up, Jumblatt declared, “200million! It’s peanuts, pocket money for the Hariri family!”Jumblatt said that Saad Hariri needs to start spending hismassive fortune as his late father, Rafiq, had done. Notingthat Hizballah is handing out money for rebuilding even inthe heavily-Sunni northern city of Akkar and also that150,000 Sunni IDPs had fled their homes in the Biqa’ valleyfor Syria, where they had been well-treated, Jumblatt saidthat Saad needs to shore up his support in the Lebanese Sunnihinterlands before these Sunnis start switching theirallegiance to the pro-Syria cause. “We don’t need democracynow,” said Jumblatt; “We need money.” Jumblatt lamented thatwhile Saad had finally supplied him with $1 million lastweek, he said that, “This is peanuts. I can speand it in twoto three months.” (Note: Jumblatt has told us before thatRafiq Hariri provided Jumblatt with about $3 million a yearfor Druse patronage, which probably explain Joumblatt’singratitude. End Note.)

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          1.  Avatar

            thank you for that. even of i have few doubts about a wiki source [especially this one..as Feltman saying what Jumblatt has told him….sounds like chinese whispers….no one asked Harriri himself!] but i thank you for taking the time to post a source to support your claim.

          2.  Avatar

            thank you for that. even of i have few doubts about a wiki source [especially this one..as Feltman saying what Jumblatt has told him….sounds like chinese whispers….no one asked Harriri himself!] but i thank you for taking the time to post a source to support your claim.

      2.  Avatar

        not only is he a coward but also a whore to the top bidder…sold out his nation, a real shame…Since the speech he gave during the first cedar revolution rally he’s been declining rapidly…

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