Jumblatt Thanks Sayyed Nasrallah for "Positive Words"

Source: almanar.com.lb, 26-5-2009

The head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt thanked Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his kind words during a Monday night speech in the occasion of the Resistance and Liberation day.

Al-Jazeera television network quoted Jumblatt as pointing to the "dimension" of Sayyed Nasrallah's speech, praising the positive tone his eminence used while addressing him as well as the loyalty's Sunnis.

According to Al-Jazeera, the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader reiterated that the report published in the German daily Der Spiegel concerning an alleged involvement of Hizbullah in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was "similar to "Israel"'s pretext of 1982 when it used the assassination attempt on its ambassador as an excuse" to launch its invasion on Lebanon.

On Monday, Sayyed Nasrallah praised "the courage and the position of MP Jumblatt," saying that he agrees with his comment that the Der Spiegel report is even more dangerous than the Ain el-Roummaneh bus (that saw the beginning of civil war in 1975). "Those who fabricated this want to create sedition and conflict between the Sunnis and the Shiites, mainly Hizbullah. This was soon grasped by the savants of politics in Lebanon who talked about the attempt to revive sedition," his eminence stressed.

Meanwhile, member of the Democratic Gathering MP Fouad Saad said on Tuesday that the comments made by his bloc's head, MP Jumblatt, were a part of the calming strategy towards Hizbullah and its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, emphasizing that the latter met him with a positive reaction.

"However, this doesn't mean that any of the two leaders has changed his political stances," Saad said, stressing that the whole issue was an attempt to consolidate the positive atmosphere ahead of the parliamentary elections.

In a related development, Jumblatt visited Qoreitem Palace overnight and met with the head of the Future movement MP Saad Hariri.