The primary fault lines in the Middle East are now between Sunnis and Shi‘ites, a gap made deeper and wider each day by the bloodletting in Syria, where the civil war doubles as a religious one: there Sunni rebels fight a regime headed by Bashar Assad, whose Alawite sect is linked to Shiism both by perception and the ardent support of Iran, leader of the Shi‘ite sphere, and the Lebanon-based Hizballah militia it sponsors.
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