Former leader of the Progressive Socialist Party Walid Joumblatt speaking at the Druze House, July 7, 2026. (Credit: Photo provided by the PSP)
All eyes are once again on Walid Joumblatt. The Druze leader has never hidden his objections, both in form and substance, to the framework agreement reached between Lebanon and Israel on June 26. However, he took care to state, in an interview last week with L’Orient-Le Jour, that he had no intention of being part of a broad political front aimed at torpedoing the agreement in Parliament. But the new diatribe delivered Tuesday by the former Progressive Socialist Party leader against the text has raised questions about his (true) position on the issue.During a meeting held Tuesday at the Druze House under the auspices of the community’s sheikh Akl, Sami Abi al-Mona, Joumblatt described the agreement as a “unilateral understanding dictated by Israel ... to people close to Baabda Presidential Palace and the Serail.”Stating that the...
All eyes are once again on Walid Joumblatt. The Druze leader has never hidden his objections, both in form and substance, to the framework agreement reached between Lebanon and Israel on June 26. However, he took care to state, in an interview last week with L’Orient-Le Jour, that he had no intention of being part of a broad political front aimed at torpedoing the agreement in Parliament. But the new diatribe delivered Tuesday by the former Progressive Socialist Party leader against the text has raised questions about his (true) position on the issue.During a meeting held Tuesday at the Druze House under the auspices of the community’s sheikh Akl, Sami Abi al-Mona, Joumblatt described the agreement as a “unilateral understanding dictated by Israel ... to people close to Baabda Presidential Palace and the Serail.”Stating that...
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