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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningWalid JumblattFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchLebanonThis article is part of the series:Politics and government ofLebanonConstitutionPresidentEmile LahoudPrime MinisterFouad SinioraPresent governmentParliamentSpeakerPolitical partiesElectionsGovernoratesDistrictsForeign relationsOther countries #160;• #160;Politics #160;Portalview • talk • editWalid Jumblatt (Arabic: æáíÏ ÌäÈáÇØý) (born August 7, 1949), is the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon and the most prominent leader of the Druze community. He is currently allied to the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces and the Qornet Chehwan Gathering.The origin of the Jumblatt family is the Kurdish Janboulad family dating back to Janboulad Ibn Kassem al Kirdi al Kaisari, known as Ibn Arabou (1530-1580), and governor of Aleppo. Walid Jumblatt is the son of Kamal Jumblatt, the assassinated founder of the PSP, the party which Walid Jumblatt currently leads.During the Israeli occupation and subsequent withdrawal of Lebanon in 1982 and 1983, Jumblatts militia, backed by Soviet weaponry from Syria and possibly with the aid of Palestinian guerillas, overran sixty Maronite villages, killing thousands, as a retaliation for Maronite hostilities that occurred earlier in the war. Maronite hostilities included forced evacuations and a systematic burning of Druze villages and shrines in addition to thousands of killings and imprisonments that attempted to ethnically cleanse Mount Lebanon of its Druze inhabitants. [citation #160;needed] He secured a Druze victory and solidified his position as leader of the Druze.The BBC describes Jumblatt as being seen by many as the countrys political weathervane. He has a successful record of changing allegiances to ensure that the sectarian interests of the Druze emerge on the winning side of the political issues and conflicts shaping Lebanon, from the turmoil of the 1975-1990 civil war to Lebanons reconstruction. Like several other sectarian leaders, he was a supporter of the Syrian military presence (described as an occupation by anti-Syrian elements) in Lebanon after the civil war, but since the death of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in 2000, he has campaigned for the end of Syrian domination of Lebanon. This has pitted him against President Emile Lahoud; who he considers a Syrian puppet, and the Lebanese Shiite party Hezbollah; for whom he had this to say: Their fighters have done a good job defying and defeating the Israeli army, OK, But the question we ask is where their allegiance goes: to a Lebanese strong central authority or somewhere else (Chicago Tibune interview Aug.11, 2006). It has also been argued that his previous support for Syrian intervention was compelled. [citation #160;needed]After the assassination of Rafik Hariri in 2005, Jumblatt said that a shaken Hariri had told him months before that he was personally threatened by Syrian President Bashar
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