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The Last Christians of the East by Agostino Pacciani
On November the 21st , when the minister of Industry was shot in Beirut, the well-known Christian-Maronite Gemayel family had lost a firth martyr. Since then, all reflectors are pointed again in the direction of Syria as this new dramatic episode is not only concerns the Christian community but raises further instability to the Lebanese political scene. The attack was launched on the very same day the UN approved a project to establish an international tribunal to judge the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri. The movement of the 14th of March comes at a price: the one of a new bloodbath. Nevertheless, since Israel’s withdrawal in 2000 and the Syrians last year –as a result of the UN resolution 1559 - the Christian Maronites had benefited of a new freedom and happiness. But what else happened in the meanwhile? The presence of Sunnite extremists, their ever-since hostile neighbours, Syria, Israel and Iran, the raise to power of Hezbollah Shiites and the Druze enemy all together continue to threaten the lives of this Christian community.
