BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt warned Syrian Druze against joining a paramilitary force formed recently by the Syrian regime Monday, reiterating his call for them to participate instead in the Syrian uprising.
“Any reckless move such as joining the so-called National Defense Army will endanger [the Druze] political and physical presence in all Syrian districts,” Jumblatt said in his weekly editorial in Al-Anbaa newspaper.
“We call on them once again to participate in the revolution and refrain from joining this destructive project [the National Defense Army],” added the Druze leader.
Jumblatt said that the Syrian regime was setting an example once again in its ongoing attempts to provoke a civil war between Syrians by inciting neighboring areas and sects against each other and was doing it in order to drive attention away from the behavior of the regime.
“The establishment of the so-called National Defense Army would fulfill the goals of the regime and pave the way for the civil war ... and makes it very hard to end it, particularly as there are no signs for an international settlement [for the crisis],” he said.
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