Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Rondini libanesi: Walid Jumblatt

February 7, 2003
Special Dispatch - Syria/Lebanon
No. 466
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Lebanese Druze Leader: Bush 'Mad Emperor,' Rice 'Oil-Colored,' Blair
'Peacock' With A 'Sexual Complex'; 'My Joy Was Great' at Columbia Disaster
Lebanon's English-language paper, The Daily Star, published a February 3,
2003 article on Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader in Lebanon and parliamentary
opposition member. The article quoted Jumblatt as saying that the true axis
of evil was one of "oil and Jews," calling President George W. Bush a "mad
emperor," and criticizing British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
According to the article, Jumblatt also expressed "great joy at the
destruction of the Columbia space shuttle." The following is the article in
its entirety: (1)
"Great Joy" for Destruction of Columbia Shuttle
"Walid Jumblatt lashed out Sunday against Western politicians and 'the
Jews,' calling on Arab leaders to hold popular referendums before allowing
in foreign troops for a war against Iraq."
"The Progressive Socialist Party leader also said he felt 'great joy' at
Saturday's destruction of the United States space shuttle Columbia, because
it carried an Israeli astronaut who had taken part in aggression against
'Lebanon and Iraq.'"
"'The true axis of evil that rules the world today is an axis of oil and
Jews,' Jumblatt said at his family home of Mukhtara, Chouf."
Axis of Jews and Oil Leading "Oil-Colored" Rice
"The oil axis is present in most of the U.S. administration, beginning with
its president, vice-president and top advisers, including (Condoleezza)
Rice, who is oil-colored, while the axis of Jews is present with Paul
Wolfowitz, the leading hawk who is inciting (America) to occupy and destroy
Iraq,' he continued."
"The Druze leader described U.S. President George W. Bush, while delivering
his State of the Union address last week, as someone who 'considers himself
God's deputy on Earth, threatening and classifying the world (into different
camps), and relying on his imperial power.'"
President Bush: A Mad Emperor
"'How dangerous emperors are when they go mad. in the same axis we have the
trustworthy servant, the imperial servant. pleased with himself and his
idiotic laugh, his peacock appearance, none other than Tony Blair,' Jumblatt
said."
"'Also joining this axis is the comprador Mussolini of the 21st century, the
prime minister of Italy today, Silvio Berlusconi, who seems to want to renew
the empire of the Caesars.'"
"'To complete the picture, we have Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar,
the Spanish neo-rightist, whom I could term a progressive Franco,' said
Jumblatt."
"He quipped that the Spanish leader had military ambitions in the Arab
world, based on last year's Spanish-Moroccan dispute over an uninhabited
island."
"'And by the way, Aznar and Blair spend a lot of time in front of the mirror
every morning, it seems, so that their hair is parted perfectly,' said
Jumblatt."
"'People who pay that much attention to their appearance are fascists by
nature. Or they have psychological or sexual complexes. I think the best way
to understand (them) would be to. read Freud," he said."
"As for Russia's position on a war in Iraq, Jumblatt said the country had
either 'drowned in the submarine Kursk or gotten lost in the alleyways of
Grozny.'"
"Jumblatt urged Arab rulers to be 'frank' with their populations and drop
'verbal maneuverings that fool no one.'"
"'Their skies are American airplanes, their seas are American fleets, their
bases are American bases, their regimes are U.S.-British regimes, their
rivers are American boats, their mountains are American commandos, their
plains are American tanks and their security is at the service of American
interests.'"
"Jumblatt advised Arab countries to follow the Turkish example and allow
their legislatures a say in allowing foreign troops basing rights as part of
a war against Iraq."
"My Joy Was Great because One of Those Killed Was an Israeli Astronaut"
"'In answer to the post-Sept. 11 question in America of 'why do they hate
us?' . I would have liked to have felt sorry for the space shuttle that was
destroyed (Saturday) but my joy was great because one of those killed was an
Israeli astronaut [or a Jewish astronaut, there is no difference] 2 who had
previously been part of the Jewish criminal army, particularly against
Lebanon and Iraq,' Jumblatt said, referring to Israeli Colonel Ilan Ramon,
who participated in the mission that bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in
1981."
Endnotes:
(1) The Daily Star (Lebanon), February 4, 2003,
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/03_02_03/art4.asp
(2) Text in brackets omitted from The Daily Star version,
Al-Safir, Lebanon, February 3, 2003.

Eh, questo e’ un bel post, vecchio mio, come sempre.
Ma sono curioso. Tu che sei comunista, anti-americano, ma filo-israeliano
(semplifico un poco, ma piu’ o meno direi che ci siamo). Direi un ammiratore
della cultura ebraica come me, se non altro.
Dicevo, come giudichi tutta la faccenda.
Perche’ e’ intricata.
Siria e Stati Uniti si guardano in cagnesco.
Ma anche Israele e Siria non vanno troppo d’accordo, sebbene Israele tema in
questo momento di piu’ l’Iran.
Inoltre: le truppe siriane sono truppe di occupazione, e da questo punto di
vista la vulgata comunista non puo’ non essere in imbarazzo, ostacolando le
truppe americane in Iraq e chiamandole truppe di occupazione.
Io credo peraltro che tutti gli analisti siano stati sorpresi (per non dire
molto sorpresi) dalla imponente manifestazione degli Hezbollah pro Siria,
che nessuno, mi sa, si aspettava.
Ma gli Hezbollah (perdonami l’ortografia, scrivo senza controllare) sono
nemici giurati di Israele. Il loro sceicco, da sempre, dice peste e corna
dello Stato Ebraico, secondo Israele finanzia il terrorismo contro lo Stato
Ebraico e, ritornando a temi molto antichi, superati dalla stessa
amministrazione palestinese ne contesta in radice addirittura l’esistenza.
Cioe’ vorrebbe buttare a mare tutti gli Ebrei.
Come si esce da questo casino ?
Peraltro anche la posizione di Jumblatt, che evidentemente deve proprio
tener conto della pressione degli Hezbollah, e’ inquietante.
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 1981."
Roba forte, eh? Che il politically correct non alberghi piu' sulle 
colline di Beirut? Mica si perdono in tante perifrasi...
Am.

 tener conto della pressione degli Hezbollah, e' inquietante.
Quello è un "cinico perfetto". Creerà problemi solo quando e se sarà
estromesso dal gioco. IMVHO, s'intende, i veri banditi sono molto meno
pericolosi dei banditi "con un ideale". Shalom.
Namib

la maggioranza č (come dire?) "inopportuna"...
La maggioranza č un dettaglio fondamentalmente irrilevante. 
Come sottolineava ier sera l'ottimo G.Fini al soporifero Vespa la
democrazia č merce inesportabile. Anzi consegnare codesto strumento in
mano ai selvaggi rischia di essere vieppiů dannoso, che poi si fanno
male ed eleggono la gente sbagliata.
Aggiornati Namib, la nuova tendenza č l'esportazione di valori.
Scannarsi sul sistema di governo non č piů a la page. Parola del vice.
Candide