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The Israeli occupation today is unable to get under control the popular movements in the Golan Heights, and the unity of the Druze population of the Golan and that of Palestine is a cause for concern for the Israelis, Wiam Wahab, the founder and leader of the Lebanese Arab United Party, told Al Mayadeen on Wednesday.

Wahhab lauded the valor of the people of the Golan Heights, demanding that they storm prisons and liberate those incarcerated. 

He called on the people of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 to ruse up in solidarity with the people of the Golan Heights and the people of the West Bank.

"The people of the Golan are deprived of contacting the Arab population outside of Palestine, and they are subjected to severely harsh measures that make any sort of movement incredibly difficult," Wahhab underlined. "Lebanon is the political center of the Drize, therefore, the Lebanese stance is essential; the Arab nature of the Golan is an essential part of the battle."

The situation is incredibly concerning for the Israeli occupation, as there are confrontations and demonstrations in the Golan in parallel with military operations in the West Bank and popular movements in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, Wahhab underlined. 

"The confrontation in the Golan will be reignited even if it was postponed for a little while," the Lebanese politician said. "Arab solidarity with the locals is a necessity."

"The stance of [Progressive Socialist Party leader] Walid Jumblatt on the Golan is not out of the ordinary... He is stern about the Arabism of the Druze and solidarity with Palestine," the prominent Druze leader said.

Over the past few years, Wahhab underlined, "many offers were made to Syria in return for forgetting about the occupied Golan, and President Bashar Al-Assad refused all of that, although they were tempting offers."

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Wahhab called for Arab states to stand with the population of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 and the Arab population of the Golan Heights, adding that he might submit a memorandum of protest to the United Nations in Beirut, but "the most important thing is there being an Arab position driven by the most significant countries."

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt underlined Wednesday that the stance taken by the Arabs of the Golan and Jenin was "outstanding".

This came at a time when hundreds of residents of the occupied Syrian Golan are confronting Israeli occupation plans to install energy turbines on Syrian soil. The Israeli occupation brought in large reinforcements and closed all roads leading to Al-Hafayer area, where Israeli wind turbines are to be built.

The Israeli occupation forces fired rubber and live bullets and tear gas bombs on the demonstrators, injuring several of them, while preventing ambulances from reaching the demonstration points.

In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Jumblatt called for a unified stance from the Golan all the way to Palestine, stressing the need to return to both armed and peaceful struggle.

The head of the Progressive Socialist Party said he is communicating with the people of the Golan, stressing his readiness for more such communication.

Jumblatt pointed out that there is no international stance yet regarding the current events that the Golan is witnessing, and the US administration has only expressed worry, making a unified stance a necessity.

Elsewhere, the Lebanese leader added that the uprising must advance today to a new stage through Arab support.

Likewise, the Progressive Socialist Party saluted the people of the occupied Golan "who cling to their land and identity and stand up to the plans of the occupation."

The party announced its solidarity with the people of the Golan in their movements against the occupation, stressing the importance of continuing on this national path.

Earlier, residents of the occupied Syrian Golan, who gathered to protest Israeli plans to seize more Syrian territory under the pretext of installing energy turbines, affirmed to Al Mayadeen that the energy turbines that the Israeli occupation wants to build aim to seize Syrian land and forcibly expel Syrians, underlining that despite Israeli terror, they will not abandon their land whatsoever, stressing that liberation is underway.

Faraj Saqr, a member of the Executive Office in Quneitra Governorate, told Al Mayadeen that "our people are determined to thwart all Zionist-American projects in our land."

It is noteworthy that "Israel" has been occupying the Golan Heights since 1967 and refuses to recognize Syrian sovereignty over it, despite the United Nations' repeated assertion that it is part of Syrian territory and that Israeli actions in it have no legitimacy.