Jumblat: Why Syrians Negotiate and Lebanese Fight?

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat accused Hizbullah of rejecting the state concept in Lebanon.

Jumblat noted: “Lebanese territories have been liberated, except for Shebaa farms, that await the demarcation

of borders with Syria to establish Lebanese sovereignty on them.”

 

“So what is the mission of the resistance after liberation?” he asked.

 

“They want to keep Lebanon an open arena for wars that serve their interests,” he added.

 

Jumblat noted that Syrian negotiator Ibrahim Suleiman has been holding talks with Israeli officials in Turkey, asking: “Why Syrians can negotiate though their land is occupied and the Lebanese should fight although their land is liberated?”

 

“It would be easy to launch military operations and spark wars, but that would result in destroying the nation anew,” he noted.

 

Jumblat made the remarks in an editorial that would be published Tuesday by the PSP weekly mouthpiece, al-Anbaa.

 

He noted that Syrian officials did not take part in the funeral of Hizbullah official Imad Mughniyeh who was killed in a car bombing in Damascus last Tuesday.