Jumblat Heads to Moscow to 'Discuss Syrian Crisis'
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Wednesday left for the Russian capital Moscow aboard a private plane, state-run National News Agency reported.
The agency did not elaborate any further.
But MTV reported later on Wednesday that the Druze leader had been invited to Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for talks on “the Syrian crisis.”
Jumblat has called on Syria's key ally Russia to “launch a political initiative together with the countries concerned in order to pull Syria out of its crisis.”
In his weekly column in his party’s al-Anbaa newspaper published Tuesday, Jumblat also urged Iran to “launch some kind of initiative towards the Syrian people who stood by the Iranian revolution against the Shah regime and in the face of the Saddamist attack in the eighties.”
“There’s no doubt that Syria may descend into a devastative civil war if the bloodshed continues,” Jumblat warned.
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retire
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Gabby, why do you want Jumblat to tell Russia that? Did you send Jumblat a personal note or you rely on Jumblat reading the pages of Naharnet? Shouldn't your great mind and that of Jumblat meet head to head and iron out these matters mano a mano? Please enlighten us with more details and strategic analysis a la Dr. Samir Bourajfeh. On a personal note, how did you amass all this knowledge? I envy people like you and shab and thepatriot and peace and aragon and allouchi and barbopuchi. Keep up the work of genius my friends.
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And hope jumblat won't change after he comes back, this is if stayed alive. I have a feeling the Russian and Syrian dictators will kill him soon
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should really retire. Hand it over to Taimour baik.
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May God Bless You Walid Beyk
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Jumblat you are the voice of reason in a sea of madness and a true statesman.
Reason and common sense has become a rare commodity in Lebanon.
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at the end of the tunnel I can see light.a needed switch is taking place
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jumblat will be explained once more that he is retarded is taking wrong side again.
he's old and demented and needs to be reminded that usa and zionists and their domestic fans are getting weaker every day
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Simply put, Jumblat now sides with the syrian regime and the unholy hezballah until the day the regime and its benefactors are toppled.
He cares not about the state of the middle east and the arab/israeli conflict but on the wellbeing of the druze population in the region. As a minority in the region, he sides with the most "powerful" side (powerful here is defined in terms of weapons + brainwash ability) while maintaining a "hands-off" approach where he doesn't directly offend other parties. These moves combined give this minority the ability to protect itself in the short-term, should there be anymore dramatic forms of civil unrest, and manouver into the most profitable political side in the medium term.... continue below
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The long term however is forgotten. Long term issues go beyond sectarian lunacy, they are chronic struggles we face in terms of productivity and mainly overall well-being.
Jumblat is a joker, much like the rest. I don't blame him he plays a game he knows far too well. I blame myself firstly, for abandoning Lebanon five years ago, and mainly any lebanese who now lives in the land I worship (I believe in God, so relax... message for the ultra-sensitive) and spreads hatred.
Long live a FREE Lebanon.
UNITY
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Jaba the camel is back from Iran and ready to earn his one peanut a day
Tell Russia they screwed themselves out of a navy base in the Med for supporting the butcher of Damascus and the killers of the Hezz.