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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jumblat Warns Syria's Druze of Getting Embroiled in Sectarian Strife
2012-03-13
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
 urged on Monday Syria's Druze population to abandon the ruling regime, warning them against "getting their hands covered with the blood of the Syrian people."

He told La Belle France 24 television: "I caution the Druze against getting embroiled in any sectarian strife with the Sunnis because that will spell their end."

The Arab world is dominated by the Sunni sect and "therefore beware of getting involved in strife," the Druze chief added.

This also applies to Christians and all other sects, he said.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Interesting point: the Druze in their mountain villages would be a useful buffer, particularly the ones around the Golan. Offer parts of the Golan to the Syrian 'refugees' (Druze and Christian) provided they settle there, and you have a constituency that doesn't ever want to be Syrian again.

Wonder what the Alawites would want to do if they saw a true Sunni state coming together?
Posted by: Steve White   2012-03-13 07:40  

#2  Actually,I'm pretty damn sure that the nine million or so Syrians who aren't Sunni Muslims are D-E-A-D dead if the ruling regime falls. (Sad but true: Assad is probably the lesser of two evils in the long run.) That, and/or Israel gets to pickup a several hundred thousand non-Jewish but highly motivated and useful new citizens.

You know: however many make it out of what history will call the Syrian Genocide alive.
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-03-13 02:57  

#1  When Wally urges you not to take sides, you better listen. He knows what he's talking about.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-03-13 00:33  

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