1. In the Chouf now, the Druze holy colours hang over the militia checkpoints.

2. Small stone oratories - the Druze have no mosques - stand amid the fields.

3. The Druze a unique position within Israeli society.

4. The "Twelver" Shi'a, Sunni, and Druze each have state-appointed clerical bodies to administer family and personal status law through their own religious courts, which are subsidised by the State.

5. For the Druze of Beit Jann the ties of blood, religion and land run deep.

6. Anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for Gemayel's assassination and said he expected more killings aimed at undermining parliament's ruling majority.

6. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

7. The leader of Lebanon's Druze community Walid Jumblatt said he hoped the crisis was now over.

8. Druze men attend a rally in a village near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights. The annual demonstration protests Israel's 1981 annexation of the disputed territory.

9. Weapons have flooded into the country since the 1860s when the Royal Navy delivered arms to the Druze.

10. Although Lebanon is about 60 percent Muslim, it also has large Christian and Druze populations, making it one of the most diverse countries in the Middle East.

11. Before this fall, "3.14" coalition of the evening of 21 Druze leader Jumblatt said Hezbollah-led camp backward, making the two camps now matched the seats in Parliament.

12. About 20% of the population are Arabs, mostly Muslim, although some are Christian or Druze Israeli Arabs.

13. Muslims make up 15.8% of Israelis, 2.1% are Christian, 1.6% are Druze and the remaining 3.7% (including Russian immigrants and some Jews) were not classified by religion.

14. The Army remains weak largely because Lebanon's various factions – Christian, Druze, and Muslim – don't want it to be used against any of them.

15. Of the Arab Israelis 82.3% are Muslim, 9% are Christian and 8.5% are Druze.

16. Hezbollah runs one club, as do the Sunnis, the Druze and theMaronites.

17. Since the Eleventh century, there has been a sizable Druze presence, concentrated in rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut.

18. Her father, an influential owner-editor murdered four years ago, was Greek Orthodox, her paternal grandmother a famous Druze poet.