Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader and leader of the Druze Socialist Party in Israel, called for "the intifada and not staining their Arabism," condemning those who deal with them against the Palestinian people.
The remarks came after Jumblatt's meeting on Wednesday with the head of the Hamas faction in the Palestinian Legislative Council Mahmoud al-Zahar, who is visiting Beirut at the head of a parliamentary delegation from Hamas.
Jumblatt said: "There is an appeal to the Druze Arabs in occupied Palestine, sooner or later the occupation will go away so as not to tarnish your reputation and your Arab history in cooperation with the Zionist authorities against the Palestinian people."
He expressed hope that "they will rise up ... and some will rise, but there are those who will deal with the Palestinian people and the people of Gaza."
Jumblatt pointed out that the occupation of France by Algeria lasted more than a century and then disappeared, and how many traders went with the occupation or killed after it.
Jumblat rejected the US draft resolution condemning Hamas in the United Nations General Assembly, calling on the Lebanese state to reject the draft.
For his part, Zahar stressed the right of the Palestinian people to liberate its territory and liberated all the Arab and African countries and others. He explained to Jumblatt the situation in the Gaza Strip and the criminal siege it is facing.
Zahar arrived in Beirut on Wednesday morning at the head of a parliamentary delegation from Hamas to meet with Lebanese officials.
The Druze community lives in northern Israel. With the exception of the Druze of the occupied Golan in 1967, those who adhere to their Arab national identity serve many Druze who have been living in Israel since 1948 in the army of occupation "mandatory service" and regard themselves as Israelis above all else.