The Economist (US), November 25th, 2006
If it was Syria, it will have done itself no favours
SOMETHING sinister was bound to happen. Since the guns of last summer's brutal little war with Israel fell silent, the pitch of Lebanon's internal politics has ratcheted to ever shriller heights. Still, no one knew how the poisonous polarisation, pitting the pro-Western parliamentary majority that controls the cabinet against a panoply of critics, would play itself out. The assassination of Pierre Gemayel provided one blunt answer.
Mr Gemayel, minister of industry and scion of a famous Christian political dynasty, was gunned down on Nove...
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