Lebanese politician Jumblatt reaffirms his anti-Syria stance http://islamtimes.org/vdceep8znjh8eni.1kbj.html  Islam Times - Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt has once again voiced his support for the armed groups fighting the Syrian government.

In a ceremony to mark the 35th anniversary of the assassination of his father Kamal Jumblatt, he placed the flag of the Syrian rebels on his father’s grave.

Senior figures from the March 14 Alliance, the Lebanese political group which has a long standing feud with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, attended the ceremony.

Jumblatt has made many changes in his stance toward Assad over the past years. He visited Damascus in May 2010 after a period of extreme enmity during his affiliation with the March 14 Alliance.

He has steadily moved towards the Syrian armed rebels since the crisis in Syria began about a year ago.

He also called on the Druze community in Syria, which has around 700,000 members, to turn against the leadership in Damascus. However, the Syrian Druze and other minorities have been reluctant to take such a step.

Aoun voices concerns over Christian’s destiny in Middle East and Arab World if ‎conspiration against Syrian Leadership succeeds http://www.islamtimes.org/vdcgz39qtak9tx4.5jra.html  Islam Times - Free Patriotic Movement leader and Former Lebanese President, Michel Aoun voiced alarming concerns, during his movement's annual dinner on March 14th, saying that what is happening in Syria is an international agression rather than a revolution.

Aoun's statement comes in accordance with that made by Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch "Bchara Botrous", during his visits to Qatar and Jordan, who expressed great worries of the extremists' having a strong foothold in Syria or even taking the lead in it.

The Lebanese Patriarch who had regret not being able to commence his visit from what he described as the Maronite's Motherland for over 1600 years, assured that "Christians can only survive as part of the Arab World".

Experts view Aoun's statement as a true reflection of the fears of at least 35% of Lebanon's population, the Lebanese christians, of violence on Lebanon's borders with Syria, particularly after reports came out on the presence of radicals over there. This has left Christians in Lebanon with one basic question: "who will insure stability for them if the radicalis take over?