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Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, which aired on Al-Manar TV and LBC TV on August 13, 2007.
Al-Manar TV
Walid Jumblatt: The culture of death accompanies us. It is destroying our economy, driving our youth towards emigration, and threatening our future, by means of their booby-trapped messages in the South, and by means of the criminals who accuse others of heresy, who cross our border - the Lebanese-Syrian border – and by means of their illegal arsenals and their useless sit-in strike. But the moment we will gloat at them is inevitably coming. It may take a while, but come it will. The killer will be killed, even if it takes a while. Let us continue on our path, unlil we cross the bridge to a new Lebanon, and perhaps a new Middle East.
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In the summer of 2004, during a reception of Patriarch Lahham in his summer home in Ein Trez, my words caused embarrassment, as I intended. The Nero of Baabda Palace [Lahoud] laughed his usual idiotic laugh. Unfortunately, many criminals throughout history were idiots.
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In the summer of 2004 ,the greater criminal idiot, Bashar Al-Assad, invited Rafiq Al-Hariri, and in that famous meeting, he said to him: "Renew Lahoud's term in office, because Lahoud is me, or else... Renew the term in office of the lesser criminal idiot because he is just like me, the greater criminal idiot."
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LBC TV
Along with Samir Qassir, I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom. As long as the gang ruling Damascus remains, and as long as the free men of Syria are in prison, and as long as the bombs of those who accuse others of heresy travel between Iraq and Lebanon, and as long as the truth is not revealed with regard to the dozens of thousands of missing people and prisoners, in the prisons of Azra, Sidnaya, and Tadmor, and in the jails of the intelligence, and as long as the Lebanese-Syrian border is open to the agents of destruction – we should expect more assassinations and more bombings, not to mention the waterfall of blood and heroic sacrifice by the Lebanese army, in the river of blood, Nahr Al-Bared.
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The weapons that protect the regimes of hatred and tyranny, which come to Iran from Beirut [sic] through the Syrian regime, is not holy and never will be holy, regardless of its role in confronting the Israeli aggression. Resistance is not only the resistance against Israel, but also resistance against the regimes of hatred and hostility.
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When the resistance agrees to fight tyranny - whether this tyranny is Zionist, Arab, or Farsi – we might begin to think about cooperation. This is the minimal moral condition. There will be no political alliance with those who protect the regimes of Bashar and his ilk.
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