Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt

Tribute to the Druze Kamal Jumblatt Minister of Economy and Agriculture 1946 and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party PSP in 1949 He was one of the architects of the departure of President Bechara elKhoury 1952 before playing a major role in the events of 1958 From 1960 to 1964 Kamal Jumblatt assumed under the presidency of Fouad Chehab various ministerial functions After the conflict of June 1967 he gradually approached the Palestinian organizations In 1969 he became Minister of the Interior in August 1970 he supported the election of Soleiman Frangié as President of the Republic Following the LebanesePalestinian clashes of May 1973 he took sides against the head of state established himself as the leader of the National Movement in 1975 and engaged in a revolutionary armed struggle against the Lebanese Front Hostile to Syrias intervention in Lebanon he broke with it March 1976 He was assassinated near a Syrian checkpoint in 1977