PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt assails former ally Saad Hariri, accuses him of playing dirty game and seeking to turn Druze against him

No doubt, it’s the complete and final rift between yesterday’s allies…

In brief, the relationship between the head of the caretaker government Saad Hariri and the head of the National Struggle Front is not only ruptured, but also tense, and even more…

The conclusion must be made when Jumblatt publicly declares that no ties bind him anymore with former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri except his memory, announces that his son, Saad, doesn’t resemble him and even goes until accusing the ‘son’ of playing a ‘dirty’ game against himself and seeking to turn his sect against him.

The stances were made by Jumblatt in an interview with Lebanese daily Al-AKhbar in which he criticized the March 14 camp's conduct, accusing it of increasing the dangerous internal divide in Lebanon that "is targeting an entire sect."

Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri is not like his father, former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, he said. The senior Hariri "was a unique and approachable individual. No ties bind me to him except his memory," Jumblatt noted. "He never severed his ties with Hezbollah and Syria," he added, comparing between the father and son.

He said former ally MP Marwan Hamadeh was not innocent, accusing him of employing the same sectarian incitement, describing his rift with him as "complete and final."

The mad Progressive Socialist Party leader said that Hariri was seeking to turn the Druze against him.

Jumblatt also rejected allegations that Syria is behind the delay in the government formation, accusing the United States of being behind the current stalemate in Lebanon. "They obstructed the Saudi-Syrian initiative and they are escalating their position through the March 14 forces' campaign of employing the indictment against the Resistance's arms, while in the past we sought hard to eliminate any of the indictment's possible negative repercussions," he noted.

"How can the issue of the arms possession be resolved without the least amount of calm in the country? What does Hariri want? Break Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati and the economy and then what?" he asked.

Jumblatt stressed that Hariri's contacts with Hezbollah and Syria are completely severed, noting that this is the first time that contacts between the Lebanese are totally cut.