BEIRUT: A Baath Party official blasted MP Walid Jumblatt Tuesday for urging Syria’s Druze community to disengage from the regime and side with the rebels, accusing him of serving Israeli and Turkish schemes aimed at partitioning Syria.
“The latest declarations made by Walid Jumblatt and his previous definition of terrorism converge with the Zionist [Israeli] stance seeking with its Turkish ally to divide Syria and undermine its people’s unity,” said Fayez Shukr, secretary of Lebanon’s branch of Syria’s ruling Baath Party.
Shukr accused Jumblatt of endangering Lebanon and placing border areas close to Syria in the Arkoub region, southeast Lebanon, under big threats.
“Walid Jumblatt’s blunt engagement in the Zionist-led terrorist scheme, which is being carried out by the terrorist takfiri groups, poses great dangers on Syria and its people as well as the whole of Lebanon, especially the border areas,” Shukr said.
Jumblatt, the powerful leader of Lebanon’s Druze community and head of the Progressive Socialist Party, has called on his coreligionists in Syria to join relinquish all links with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and join the ranks of the rebels.
His comments came after fierce clashes broke out last week in Druze villages on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon between rebels and pro-government forces, in which several pro-regime Druze were reportedly killed.
“This very dangerous role that Walid Jumblatt brags about assuming constitutes a dangerous challenge to the Lebanese and Syrian people alike, especially at these very critical times,” Shukr added.
Jumblatt had made several calls on Syrian Druze to join the Syrian opposition since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011.
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