Jumblat Urges March 14 to Attend All-Party Talks, Slams Opposition’s Policy
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Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat slammed on Friday the March 14-led oppositions’ stance over the national dialogue, stressing the importance of all-party talks to resolve all disputed issues.
“We have to resolve our disputes and reduce political tension,” Jumblat told An Nahar newspaper.
He urged those who are hesitating to attend the national dialogue session on Monday to participate, saying: “Nothing is impossible… We can reach a defense strategy that would allow Lebanon to benefit from the arms of the resistance.”
“Frankly I don’t understand the March 14 forces and the way they are handling this issue… Their stance is unfortunately sad, shameful and funny,” Jumblat said.
He called on the opposition to attend the all-party talks at the Baabda Palace as “some of them are trying to evade their responsibilities.”
Concerning the cabinet solution for the overspending crisis, the Druze leader voiced his support to the agreement.
“We support the agreement under the sponsorship of President Michel Suleiman as there are key issues that we can no longer obstruct,” Jumblat told As Safir newspaper.
The cabinet approved on Thursday LL10,394 billion to cover the expenses of state institutions in 2012 and LL600 billion to carry out development projects in Tripoli and other areas across Lebanon, a major breakthrough following months of wrangling on the extra-budgetary spending.
Jumblat hoped that Speaker Nabih Berri would exert efforts to find a settlement over the $11 billion spent by the previous governments between 2006 and 2009.
On the recent clashes in the northern city of Tripoli between the rival Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Alawite Jabal Mohsen, Jumblat called on all Lebanese parties to support the cabinet’s decision to disassociate the country from the turmoil in Syria.
He told An Nahar newspaper that the March 14 forces and the March 8 camp should stop funding the different factions in Tripoli and arming them.
08 June 2012, 08:44
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My dear fellow citizen Walid. You know the proverb that says, if your friend fools you once its his fault, if he fools you twice it's yours! You' re expecting March 14 to sit with lowlives, scumbag criminals, who have seized power through a coup d' état, , who have ruined livelihoods in destroying businesses in the downtown occupation, who have killed innocent people (7th may), who have trampled and raped State Institutions on every occasion (parlement closing, violating Doha agreement, taking the contry alone to a foolish war despite agreement to the contrary round the ' dialogue ' table then), dragging the country in a lost stupid costly war,
08 June 2012, 08:46
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accused of having co-planned , co-sponsored and executed the assassination of some of the most prominent politicians in the country, protecting criminals (the socalled saints!) , and to this day, holding a gun at anyone's head who doesn' t agree with their agenda, with the state standing by and watching (so called consensual security or political security when it pleases!) ?? Add to that helping and assisting countries who have , globally, the lowest human rights record on the face of the earth !
08 June 2012, 11:31
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Truth, If March 8 consents to sit with lowlife,scumbag criminals there is no good reason that March 14 should not do the same. The inconvenient truth for you is that March 8 has a real majority even without Jumblatt which is why March 14 and Jumblatt both are against representational voting. There are no answers from March 14, just obstruction . They, you, offer nothing to the future of Lebanon. They want to return to a past that did not work but allowed them to steal public money without oversight ,basic accounting or fiduciary reponsibility. The reason they obstruct is because so many of them are guilty of actual criminality in the Harari Administration and prefer gridlock to a functioning government and rule of law. But Keep up the hateful whining anyway. Truth, Israel isn't done kicking Lebanon and never will be. March 8 feel the boot, you do not.
08 June 2012, 12:57
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walid beik wants the hiwar to live, becose without it the last two years of fakhamto will.... and fakhamto said that without it he will go home...means he will shorten his presidency which open the door for aoun b4 he...that's why aoun said he will discuss only the budget, to cut the road for hiwar to move,walid beik is protecting fakhmto and cutting the last lifesupport to the general deserter.
08 June 2012, 15:54
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Jumblat i think is 1 of few in lebanon who play's the political game for what it is. its politics not friendship .
08 June 2012, 16:26
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to those M8 preachers and know-it-all: NO dialogue is possible if M8 refuses to deal with the illegal weapons, which are the root of all the lebanese problems!
what is a dialogue if M8 refuse to talk about certain subjects that annoy them? void!
a dialogue is when you accept to tackle all the issues not only those which suits you!
so M8 are blocking the dialogue, not M14 because they don t have the guts to talk about everything... as the cowards they are
08 June 2012, 17:34
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peace tawill belak khod nafas habibi! Stop fooling people. The weapons are far from being the priority! Let's build the country! Look at the latest achievements of the gvt and respect that :) You can be part of this success just stop nagging and trying to stop every good initiative just cos you are frustrated!
08 June 2012, 16:29
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Jumblat to others: Hey, I'm here. Hey, I'm there. Hey, I'm here. Hey, I'm there. Hey, I'm here. Hey, I'm there. Hey, I'm here. Hey, I'm there... And everybody follows him like the as..oles that they are.
08 June 2012, 17:26
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This is part of the Jumblatt balancing act. He is on the record against the Assad Regime and probably has a place on the assassination hit list should Assad survive. But, Jumblatt has to keep Hezbollah at bay too and Hezbollah wants this so Jumblatt complies. He is showing a willingness to engage the fiction of a Lebanese government for the sake of placating Hezbollah as he opposes Hezbollah's patron, the Assad Regime.
Still, someone in the Lebanese political class must play straight and honest with the people and say when the emperor has no clothes.
08 June 2012, 22:58
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beiruti ....Most of the straight and honest politicians you talk about have been dealt with by Syria and Hezb (the two remaining one survived an assasssination attempt and the other left the country to escape such an attempt). Why deal with matters by ballots and convincing arguments when you can just kill?
08 June 2012, 17:27
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How are you going to resolve disputes in any sort of balanced way in a dialogue with an armed participant which is doctronaire, ideological and not inclined to voluntarily move from its position for the sake of getting along with unarmed interlocutors? This whole thing is a fraud and by participation in it, one is only furthering the perpetration of the fraud. But the irony is that the Lebanese know this whole thing is BS so that no one is getting fooled except the participants who are only fooling themselves with this fake idea that they will dialogue to reduce tensions with an armed party at the table.
08 June 2012, 17:36
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Beiruti habibi! Lek even most M14 parts are for this dialogue! Have you listened to Amin and others? You guys are divided and don't even know on which front to fight! You are DESPERATE for power! You even tried stripteasing in downtown HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH and then what?! Went on ski vacation? hahahah losers ufff
yalla come to the table come we have work to do!
08 June 2012, 20:49
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if most of M14 wants dialogue it doesn t mean that we are sheep like you and follow blindly a leader if he says so...
i repeat the root of all problems in lebanon lie in the possession of illegal arms by parties and mostly hezb!
the fool is you to believe that the weapons are a detail...
08 June 2012, 22:59
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conformist is more suitable avatar name for you (maybe even brainwashed).
