The invasion starts, page-81

sort of but not really

the Levant was the cross roads of the Islamic (with Christian & Jewish) world for centuries

therefore there are so many different cultural groups living in the Levant

if you made a nation out of each group there would be lots of little nations

for example, the French appeared to want a Christian Lebanon yet Christians were not a great majority there

the history of the Levant is one of mixture or pluralism

Syria is a great example of different groups living together

contrary to the mass media, there was no religious war in Syria