Jumblatt said security solutions will not solve the current crisis in Syria which can only be solved through a fundamental regime change

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said Tuesday that all historical experiences have proven that people’s movements achieve progress and do not retrogress and is based on the principle of “God gives time but never forgets.”

He urged Russian leaders to “advise” Syria that governmental changes are “more important” than continued ‘violence’ in the country.
“If only Russia would consider applying the principle of ‘the power of the powerles’ in its approach on its ally, Syria, and the need to acknowledge that security solutions will not solve the current crisis which can only be solved through a fundamental regime change,” Jumblatt said in a statement.

Jumblatt cited similarities between the late “divine intellectual,” former President Vaclav Havel, and his father - the late Kamal Jumblatt.

He said Havel’s famous saying “the power of the powerless” is so much similar to Kamal Jumblatt’s saying that “historical experiences have proven that people’s actions achieve progress and do not go backward.”

Walid Jumblatt said “the power of the powerless” was behind the Arab revolutions that are demanding freedom and dignity.

Concerning Iran, Jumblatt said: "Iranian missiles may have extensive power but the echo of the words of the great [Iranian] poet Saadi Shirazi has a stronger effect.”

Jumblatt also called on the Druze community in Syria not to take part in the crackdown by Syrian authorities.

“They, too, know that peoples’ actions don’t go backward ... time has come to refrain from cooperating with police and military units in their crackdown on the Syrian people,” Jumblatt said, pointing out that dozens of them had returned in coffins as a result of fighting fellow Syrian citizens.