Flash: the real Walid Jumblat

In its evening news broadcast, New TV aired a video recording (taken by a cellphone) of Walid Jumblat meeting privately with Druze "clerical" leaders. He was very blunt about the status of the Druzes and why a conflict with the Shi`ites is to be avoided at all cost. He said that "the Christians" were eager to see the Shi`ites and Druzes engage in a war, and so are some of the Sunnis. He then said: look at the 1000 fighters that Hariri family imported from `Akkar into Beirut (to join the Hariri militia). He said: they did not last for fifteen minutes (on May 7th). He said that mini-Hariri is "new." He then talked about the Christians: that those who have "bad quality" will always be bad quality.