CHANAY, Lebanon — Sheikh Akl Sami Abi al-Mona, the spiritual leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, knows full well the horrors of sectarian conflict. His father was killed during the civil war that tore the country apart between 1975 and 1990, claiming the lives of 150,000 people. Speaking in his residence in Chanay on Mount Lebanon, southeast of Beirut, he expressed his alarm that Israel’s war against Hezbollah could trigger a return to sectarian violence, something that almost no-one in the country wants but could prove very hard to prevent. “The Israelis are playing a game,” he told POLITICO,…
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