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The president of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, noted that he had met with the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, in Lebanon, and that he had met with him several times in the United States and had a friendship with him . The destruction of the United States in terms of internal unity, and the withdrawal of the United States from international treaties, UNESCO, the Paris Agreement and others, and Trump also threatened to exit the rest of the arms control treaty with Russia, and Until I get to Lebanon (Biden), the road is long, but it was clear to me. Yesterday when I congratulated him, to remember the Palestinian issue, the two-state solution, according to international agreements, Resolution 242, and then the Oslo Agreement. As for Lebanon, we also want it to take charge of Lebanon, in an attempt to neutralize Lebanon from the axes, on the one hand Israel occupies our land, and on the other hand. Iran has an overwhelming presence in Lebanon, and if Biden goes back to the nuclear deal Obama started, we want this to not be at the expense of Lebanon. “
In an interview with the channel “Russia Today”, and in response to a question about Trump’s permanence in power, considering that he promised to limit the role of Iran, Jumblatt said: “No, not at all. I was clear about the sanctions against Iran, and therefore Hezbollah, and I have clear statements. ” That these sanctions will not weaken Hezbollah, but the Lebanese economy, which basically needs a restructuring, according to the French initiative, we have to take new steps, we cannot live on the dreams of a service economy, a rentier economy, but I have never defended Trump. Continuing, “Look at Palestine, how I gifted Jerusalem and the Golan to the Israelis, I was not a supporter of Trump’s policy and in my opinion, if he stays, and almost ends, he constitutes a threat to global security.”
Jumblatt noted that “it begins with the recital, that the Islamic Republic of Iran stretches from Iraq to Syria and Lebanon, so can Biden do something in terms of balance, preserving the freedom and independence of Lebanon, and to establish a policy rational with Iran, so that we return to the nuclear agreement? ” He noted that “the nuclear agreement stipulated that Iran would not make the atomic bomb for a certain period of time,” they said at the time, 12 years.
Jumblatt stressed that “we do not want to negotiate at the expense of this fractured little country called Lebanon, and that Syria deserves to be served, because the Syrian people, as a result of the Iranian presence and Russian intervention, paid a lot, and a new formula is needed to the system in Syria. “
Jumblatt said: “Hezbollah has a great influence in Lebanon, and yesterday one of those who were affected by the sanctions, Mr. Bassil, said that he was affected by these sanctions because he is allied with Hezbollah, so the other position is it will become more rigid in the government formation process, and this is an additional complication in the face of President-designate Saad Hariri. ” I do not see that these sanctions are going to have a great impact, but they will negatively affect the formation of the government ”.
Jumblatt considered that “basically, the Shiite duo, Hezbollah and the Amal movement, stayed with the Ministry of Finance for him, and the so-called rotation fell and we returned to the quota system, when we discovered that the Free Patriotic Movement (Gebran’s party Bassil and Michel Aoun) wants almost everything from the Ministry of Energy. It is the focus of the dispute because it is the source of the greatest waste in the Lebanese budget, for the Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs and even the Interior, and I don’t know why Hariri wants to leave the Ministry of the Interior, then what remains, the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture or Industry? This is a strange logic, and even the beginning of specialists fell when we entered the quotas “.
In response to a question about the punishments imposed on Bassil, Jumblatt said: “I don’t know, the last of my worries. It is strange that Gebran Bassil defends himself as an angel on earth, or Gabriel on earth” soon after, This is strange. Instead of giving lessons from Apart from the fact that the political class is corrupt, we must achieve in Lebanon an independent judiciary that is accountable, and until now, the Michel Aoun administration has suspended all judicial training, which could have deviated from the minimum level of independence of political decisions, and hold politicians accountable according to the standards. Objectivity. “
Regarding the investigation into the explosion of the port of Beirut, Jumblatt noted that “the investigation has not reached a conclusion, and will not arrive, impossible. All the departments since 2014 that have taken charge of the failure, and therefore the port Beirut, customs and others knew this amount of ammonium nitrate. ” Which blew up the port, and I made it clear in my tweet two days ago, that these nitrates were brought to Beirut by the Syrian regime, at a stage where the war in Syria was burning, and the port of Beirut was easier. to obtain these materials because they were used in barrel bombs, so they were imported into Syria. For Beirut, because at that time, there was the articulated battle of Homs, which prevented communication between Latakia and Damascus, this is my political opinion ”.
Jumblatt added: “This opinion is based on information, information at the time, who will benefit from these materials? These materials for what? These materials are agricultural chemicals, but I don’t think they were used in agriculture, and basically When these nitrates were made, after it was discovered by a German scientist, it was used for agricultural purposes and then it was used for destructive weapons purposes. “
On the story that the destination of the shipment is Mozambique, Jumblatt said: “I don’t believe anything. This ship came from Georgia, I believe, and it sank off Beirut, and the captain disappeared or died. It’s all a police plot, since it arrived to Beirut at a stage of the Syrian war, which was in The national opposition is somewhat higher in Homs, and it came to Beirut, and it used to supply Syrian helicopters with barrels, and these materials were intended to destroy Syrian towns and cities. This is my political opinion ”, and adds:“ I leave it to high-level analysis and specialists, and there are many, praise God ”.
Regarding the investigation with high officials and the opening of the files, Jumblatt said: “Nothing was done. Badri Daher stopped, and is still in detention, I believe, because the Syrian influence is very strong, and will not allow all those who passed manage the port from that stage to render accounts “.
In another context, Jumblatt said: “French President Emmanuel Macron has not put forward ideas that are far from being investigated. Macron said:” There is a need for tax reform, and this huge number of Lebanese banks must be reconsidered, and he also called for reforms. In important sectors of waste, especially the electricity sector, the French president demanded what could be achieved. He did not demand control of the borders. Rather, he said that the amounts of nitrates in the port of Beirut exploded accidentally, and here I do not agree with him, but I have no information, but how do they explode by accident? He did not say that he was a mediator in the dispute between the United States and Iran, but that he addressed what could be achieved in Lebanon, but we squandered the opportunity.
As for whether the Progressive Party demands participation in the government, he said: “Everyone calls for chastity, and everyone says we will not participate, and basically everyone reserved seats in it. Therefore, as a representative of this party, and as a representative of the Druze Arab community, I have the right to ask, where are the Druze from? All this, why are we considered “hate”, and we should be excluded, or given secondary ministerial positions. Why? “
On the presence of someone who competes with him in the leadership of the Druze, Jumblatt said: “We accept democracy. But in the previous cabinet, that’s why I say that we were not assimilated. The paradox today is that Hezbollah, the Free Patriot, and They weren’t called Saad Hariri. We called Hariri, and they own the decision. Central. This is strange and strange. This is a new art in democracy that should be taught in universities. “
And on whether Lebanese political life will continue to be attracted by the quotas and influence of regional and global countries, he said: “Lebanon used to enjoy stability. If the expression is correct, independence as a result of Arab balances. When we go back to the era From Abdel Nasser, we see that he respected Lebanese independence, and then when Syria joined Egypt. In unity with Abdel Nasser, he respected independence. Kamal Jumblatt’s advice was that Lebanon is a necessity for the Arab world in its diversity cultural, political, academic and academic, so Abdel Nasser respected this “, adding:” But things have changed today because the Arab world has fallen. There is no longer a world. Arab. It fell in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, It was then that the great door was opened to Iranian influence and influence. And the abandonment of the aspirations of the Syrian people by the international community made Iran and Russia two factors p major at the expense of the Arabs. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia entered into an endless war, and you were among the first who called for the departure of Yemen, “considering that” no one entered Yemen in history but fell “, they pointed out that” British colonialism controlled Aden, but it did not go deep into Yemen. And the Turks too. “Finally, the Arab peso, Egypt and Syria are the base, Egypt has been exiled since the Camp David Accords, and the current regime, Bashar, has destroyed Syria. Today, there is a division of roles in Syria between Turks and Iranians and between Russians. Where is Syria today? I don’t know. “
On his accusation of Bashar al-Assad of sabotaging the financial system in Lebanon, Jumblatt replied: “Neither he, nor anyone else, has the right to demand the return of the money. We are our free economy. He just wants to impose a tax on the bourgeoisie. Syrian, Syrian workers, or any Syrian who has made their savings. Safely in Lebanon. This is the story of Syria, because they have no free banks. The savings of Syrians, regardless of class, have always been placed in Lebanon or in other places than Lebanon. Maybe he wants to look, because there is a reckoning between him and his cousin Rami Makhlouf. But this is basically, he has no rights. “
Jumblatt added: “Today money, whether Syrian or non-Syrian, has dropped 60% of its value after the economic crisis in Lebanon, so nothing can be withdrawn, as if there is nothing left to do to us. responsible except this money. When they were in Lebanon, they took advantage of Lebanon, of the wealth of Lebanon. On its shores and everything, they violate all of Lebanon, so let (Bashar al-Assad) allow me, to get out of this logic, and “let me let go”.
Regarding the refugees, Jumblatt asked: “How will they come back when he (Assad), who destroyed entire towns and cities to displace them to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and the West? Does he really want them to come back? Because he is the author of the famous saying, “Syria has returned to its natural balance”, which means that the Islamist surplus, and specifically the Sunni surplus, left Syria and there is an acceptable balance in Syria. What is this play, and this lie, are they going to make a conference after a week in Damascus under the slogan of return, they return to where and there is no refuge for them?
