Syria's bloodbath is carving further divisions in Lebanon as President Bashar
al-Assad's Lebanese allies and enemies shout more and more insults at each
other. The Christians have even divided among themselves, the old Phalangist
leadership calling for Assad's overthrow while the Catholic Maronite church
performs its old role of fence-sitting on behalf of Syria's minority
Christians.
Only this week has the Maronite patriarch, Bechara Rai, had to re-explain
himself for the umpteenth time after once more pleading for dialogue between
Assad's regime and the Syrian people – instead of denouncing the government in
Damascus for its killings. What will the Sunni majority of Syria think of such
foot-dragging when its own Sunni kinsmen in Lebanon support them? Or so the
Christians have been asked...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-living-on-the-edge-of-syrias-bloody-war-7594922.html