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I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

Walid Jumblatt

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Walid Jumblatt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 7
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Walid Kamal Jumblatt
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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No one can live under degradation.
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The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.
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We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.
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