Jumblat: Israel not protecting Druze in Sweida but using some of the 'weak-minded'
Lebanon’s Druze leader and former Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat told Syria’s state TV on Wednesday that “Israel is not protecting the Druze in (the unrest-hit Syrian city of Sweida), but is rather using some of the weak-minded to claim that it is protecting them.”
“One of the reasons of the civil war in Lebanon that lasted 19 years was that Israel had claimed to be protecting some in Lebanon, and the issue led to the disasters of the war,” Jumblat added.
Speaking to Al-Jadeed television later in the day, Jumblat said “the destruction of the Syrian defense ministry building” with six Israeli warplane missiles earlier on Wednesday “had nothing to do with protecting the Druze.”
He also called on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to organize an “inclusive national conference.”
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What, exactly, is Jumblatt doing for his persecuted Syrian relatives and allies? Aside from offering hollow statements and occasional gestures of sympathy, it’s hard to see any meaningful action from him. For someone who’s quick to position himself as a defender of the oppressed, his silence—or worse, his selective inaction—speaks volumes. How many lives will be sacrificed before his rhetoric matches the urgency of the situation?
