From Beirut to the Beltway (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Seeing Jumblatt posing with Kantar increased my disgust with Lebanese politics, and added days of absence from this blog. Kantar is the ghost not only from Jumblatt's past, but from ours: back when some idolized the few who "infiltrated" the...
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Abey - Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt declared Thursday that only national unity can protect the resistance.
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Beirut - Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt urged all residents of Bab al Tabbanah and Jabal Mohsin to exercise calm and restraint and to be patient
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt has reportedly threatened to reconsider his tentative approval of giving up the telecommunications ministry in the new cabinet.
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering chief ,MP Walid Jumblatt criticized in the weekly newspaper "al Anbaa " which will be published by the Progressive Socialist Party tomorrow the current violence and the delay in forming the government . Beirut- Lebanon's Democratic Gathering chief ,MP Walid Jumblatt criticized in the weekly newspaper "al Anbaa " which will be published by the Progressive Socialist...
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Beirut - Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt wrote in the al Anbaa weekly that all Lebanese political leaders should be facilitating the formation of Lebanon's new government.
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Beirut - Democratic gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt visited Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at his mansion in Ein el Tineh to discuss the current development according to the National News Agency
Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Beirut - Democratic gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt expressed his objection to the visit of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to Lebanon in light of the current division among the Lebanese
biladsham (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Young on Druze: Roughly speaking, the Druze have a dual political leadership structure in their community, with Jumblatt heading one faction and Talal Arslan heading the other, in the latest reflection of the traditional Jumblatti-Yazbaki dichotomy. Arslan’s power happens to be vastly more limited than Jumblatt’s, even as Jumblatt has a vested interest in puffing Arslan up to protect the dual structure...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
[Landis comment] Jay Solomon et. al,'s article (copied below) is excellent. My only nit to pick with it is the choice of ending with Walid Jumblatt's quote, "Where was America when Hezbollah took over in May?" The implication is that America should have done something. Solomon lets this criticism hang in the air - as [...]
Michael J. Totten (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
In yesterday’s piece I said Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora’s and Druze chief Walid Jumblatt’s pretended support for the released terrorist Samir Kuntar was an act of triangulation. For those interested in how, exactly, that works, and why someone like Jumblatt thinks it’s necessary, Michael Young explains it in detail .
Across the Bay (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Over at MESH, Michael Young explains the Druze politics, and Hezbollah's attempt to penetrate them, that lie behind the Quntar fiasco: Jumblatt’s and Arslan’s rally for Quntar was motivated by the need to avoid Druze ill feeling by ignoring their coreligionist; but more importantly by a desire to defend their leadership over the Druze by containing Quntar, which they did by embracing him to better...
Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Michael Totten writes about The Truth about March 14, "a political vehicle for Lebanon’s liberals, democrats, free-market capitalists, human rights activists, and those who want an exit from the seemingly endless war with the 'Zionist entity'.”I don’t know if Seniora and Jumblatt sincerely believe Kuntar is a hero for those deeds. Frankly, I doubt it. He won’t be joining the March 14 movement.
Gentile Warrior (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I have stated that the nation of Lebanon no longer exists. It has been replaced by Hizbanon. The fact the Fuad Saniora and Walid Jumblatt showed up to welcome Samir Kuntar displays this fact. The Ceder Revolution was nothing more than a hiccup that amounted to nothing. Syria took over any how. Hizbollah was the tool. The decision to build infrastructure in non-Shi'ite villages - where Hizbullah
ShrinkWrapped (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The prisoner exchange between Israel and Hezbollah is widely considered a terrible defeat for Israel and another great victory for Hezbollah, much as the summer war of 2006 is widely considered a victory for Hezbollah and a disastrous defeat for...
