Jumblatt calls Sami Gemayel´s rhetoric harmful & takes Lebanon back to 1975

Source: Nowlebanon.com, 30-6-2009

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said that the speeches of Kataeb party MP Sami Gemayel "take Lebanon back to 1975." Jumblatt considered Gemayel's recent rhetoric to be the result of "being young, yet such rhetoric is very harmful and wrong," the daily reported.

Jumblatt also told the paper that the Taif Accord confirmed that there was "a truce among all Lebanese who agreed on being in a permanent state of war with 'Israel'," stressing that the Palestinians inside Lebanon will return to their homeland.

Jumblatt responded to Lebanon First bloc MP Ahmad Fatfat on the issue privatization, saying that "it was a global economic trend at a certain point, and the Lebanese were excited about it.

However, now things have changed, and the economic crisis proves the change. We have witnessed how savage capitalism has depleted the world's wealth, and the US is finally turning into a semi-socialist state."