Jumblat Accuses Hizbullah of Creating “Parallel State”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat accused Monday the Hizbullah-led opposition of seeking to create a “parallel state” in Lebanon.

 

Jumblat, in an editorial to be published Tuesday by the PSP weekly mouthpiece al-Anbaa, wrote: “We reiterate our respect to all international resolutions, including UNSCRs 1559 and 1701 because all such resolutions fall in line with the Taef accord.”

 

Such international resolutions, according to Jumblat, also support “the state of Lebanon that they (opposition) want to smash to create their own parallel state, through which they can change Lebanon into an arena for their targets and aspirations and the expansionist agendas of their allies.”

 

He also blamed the opposition for “programmed destruction of all political and economic structures in Lebanon.”

“The ongoing policy of economic destruction is premeditated,” Jumblat noted.

 

He criticized the verbal attacks launched by “dwarfs of Lebanon”s politics” against Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir.