Antiwar.com Blog » Syria http://www.antiwar.com/blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:21:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/06/21/there-are-some-lines-you-just-dont-cross/ http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/06/21/there-are-some-lines-you-just-dont-cross/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:42:58 +0000 Matt Barganier http://www.antiwar.com/blog/?p=5798 Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots even back then, but now he’s gone and done the unforgivable:

A surprise reconciliation between the leaders of Hizbullah and the Progressive Socialist Party was followed on Friday by Walid Jumblatt’s re-directing his rhetoric south, to Palestine, and warning of the “absolute extremism” of the Israeli government. “I call on all of our people in Palestine to reject sectarian and non-sectarian violence and cling to their Arabism and Palestinian national project, to confront Zionist projects that promise to be more dangerous and fiercer in the coming phase,” Jumblatt said in a statement.

The PSP leader said the Israeli government had no interest in a peace settlement and “insisted on absolute extremism” in its current policies.

I suspect we won’t be seeing any more sympathetic profiles of this “insightful interpreter of the fluctuations in Middle Eastern politics” any time soon.

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