Indeed, history has shown that the Druze are a faithful and welcoming people.
"The Druze community is a great community, " said Araidi upon his appointment.
Christian leaders suspect that Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader, is working the Lebanese crowd and world opinion for his own political ends.
The Druze are also known for their distinctively large-but-flat pita breads.
On the north side of the main street is the Druze Heritage Centre, a small and free museum that exhibits traditional Druze artefacts, weapons and lots of photos of men with moustaches.
Further down the street is Beit Oliphant (also called Beit Druze), the former house of Sir Lawrence Oliphant, a British Christian author who made friends with the Druze and moved here in 1882.
Mr Siniora's coalition of Sunni Muslims, right-wing Christian parties, liberals, and the main Druze faction led by Walid Jumblatt, did indeed win 72 of the Lebanese parliament's 128 seats in the spring of 2005, riding on sympathy generated by the assassination of Mr Siniora's patron Rafik Hariri, a billionaire and five-term prime minister.
The outspoken Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has lost half his fief to his chief rival, Talal Arslan.
When the family arranges to marry its daughter to a Druze from Damascus, the wedding must be held at the border.
Stay at the El-Manzul Druze Lodging in Isfiya, a huge house where guests can enjoy a Jacuzzi, massages and a traditional Druze breakfast of labneh, pita bread, olives and a variety of small salads.
Jaramana, a town in the Damascus suburbs with a Christian and Druze population that has mostly been pro-regime, was the site of violence Monday night.
"Now whenever I score a goal, of course I feel pride, " says the 12-year-old Druze villager.
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They then filled the new building with engravings and portraits of Ottoman sultans, French cavalry officers and Druze tribesmen, as well as faded photos of old Beirut and the villages of Mount Lebanon.
Across the northern Galilee region there are dozens of Arab and Druze villages, each offering their own homemade variety.
On a terrace in front of the house were arranged Palestinian dignitaries, foreign diplomats, Druze elders and representatives of various different Christian denominations.
"I served in the IDF, " said Aehab Asad, 33, a local Druze from Daliyat.
The neighborhood is also home to Iraqi refugees, as well as Druze and Christian groups.
As for another bout of internal conflict in Lebanon, where Hezbollah clashed violently with Sunnis and Druze in 2008, there is equally little feeling that the movement is looking to pick a fight, despite deepening sectarian sentiment and political rifts over Syria.
Druze parliament member Wael Abu-Faour(ph) says Lebanon is again becoming the battleground in a regional war.
Mr Assad also depends on the loyalty of Sunni merchants in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria's second city, and of various Druze and Christians in high positions.
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