BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt defended Tuesday his refusal to classify the Nusra Front as a terrorist organization, one day after Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called him out over his stance.
In a televised speech Monday, Nasrallah insisted that no distinction should be made between ISIS and the Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.
Without addressing him by name, Nasrallah called on Walid Jumblatt to explain his logic behind distinguishing between the two.
“As long as there is a single Syrian fighting Bashar Assad’s terrorist regime, then I am with this Syrian,” the PSP chief wrote in a post on his Twitter account after several users questioned his logic.
“This is my opinion, I know it won’t change many of the equations being drawn up for the region, but my conscience is clear,” he added.
Jumblatt has in the past noted that Nusra is made up of Syrians, whereas ISIS includes jihadis from all over the world.
But he has never explicitly said that he supports the Nusra Front, which was behind several car bombs and suicide attacks in Lebanon, in addition to the killing of two Lebanese captive servicemen on the outskirts of Arsal.
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