Click here to access article by Ghassan Kadi posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.
This author appears to offer a very fresh, unique perspective on the current situation in Lebanon (which in US media appears only as garbage protests) and nearby Syria. His perspective includes what I recognize as an accurate history of the region: French and European colonialism marked by the old divide and conquer strategies. Based on this analysis, he goes further to make some startling predictions.