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talk about how the much reconciliation project was launched by leah baroudi from beirut she is convinced that the religious conflicts are only a facade. i honestly believe that the sectarian divides in our minds are here out of fear and simply out of a because we are afraid that the other is going is out to get us or out to eliminate us. and my ideas is the solution is we need to talk to each other we need to spend time with each other and get to know each other so that this fear that comes from you know money pull a friend from the past from what you've been through you know get get this is because we know each other the problem is that we do not know each other and we are afraid of the truth. the skepticism is understandable what works in tripoli might not have the same positive effect in the rest of the country hezbollah has fought hard to secure a position in which it is a decisive political economic and military factor. and as long as religious goals persist whether between christians sunni's or shiites they will continue to determine the political and economic structure. levanon an