Lebanon's government has been beseeching Hezbollah to stay out of the fray.
There once was a non-Muslim ethnic group in the Middle East that could have formed its own small country with a solid majority and a Western-leaning culture. But it got a little greedy and opted for a slightly larger territory—where its majority was gone. The group's leadership figured that the Muslim groups in the new hodgepodge could be kept at bay through various machinations.
The Maronites trace their origins to other groups in the Levant, including the Phoenicians and Hellenized Semites, the first of whom were evangelized in the earliest years of Christianity. For many centuries now they have been recognized as a distinct ethno-religious group living in Mount Lebanon, which is a range overlooking Beirut and other towns along the eastern Mediterranean Coast.
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