Member of the ‘Democratic Gathering’ parliamentary bloc, MP Wael Abu Faour, stressed that ‘Chief Walid Jumblatt is the guarantor of the Arab Islamic identity of the Druze community from Palestine to Syria to Lebanon,’ considering that ‘the real compass is in Lebanon, and the real compass is with Walid Jumblatt, Taymour Jumblatt, and in Mukhtara, in this Arab and Islamic affiliation of the Druze of Syria, the Golan, Palestine, and everywhere.’

‘The Druze are not a minority in this land, neither a sectarian minority nor a religious, ethnic or racial minority, but rather part of the Arab Islamic majority in this nation,” Abu Faour asserted.

He added: ‘Walid Jumblatt is the guardian of this Arab and Islamic identity, and after him, Taymour Jumblatt is the guarantor of this Arab and Islamic identity against anyone who wants to tamper with it.’

His words came as he represented Jumblatt in patronizing a book signing ceremony by journalist and writer Hassan Bahmad in his recent work honoring the great Arab poet Sa
mih al-Qasim on the tenth anniversary of his passing, in a uniting Druze national gathering between the Golan, Palestine and Lebanon at the invitation of the Social and Cultural Council of Western Bekaa and Rashaya and the Progressive House, held at the Al-Irfan School premises in Dahr al-Ahmar.

‘In our national book, we are one…We differ and are distinct, but if our opinions differ, this does not rule out our nationalism. In our national book, there is no place for treason or political atonement…When it comes to the issue of Palestine, we differ in this matter, but the difference does not mean that anyone from this side or that has the right to reproach the other in his affiliation or nationalism, for we are all sons of this homeland and we all care about it,’ Abu Faour underscored.

He added: ‘This persistence, represented by Samih al-Qasim and many of the sons of occupied Palestine, has today become a real dilemma for the Israeli occupation, which views more than one million and two hundred thousand A
rabs, equivalent to 22 percent of the size of the Israeli electorate, as are Arabs clinging to their Arab identity.’

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon