In God we trust.
April 9th 2007 I’m sitting outside a Starbucks in Achrafiyeh when a group of men with walkie talkies flood the street. They’re wearing leather jackets and cheap sunglasses and toting around big cardboard boxes that are straining at the bottom. They’ve unfurled a few flags around the square - bright white banners with a single green cedar in the middle - and tied them to the trees and telephone poles. Then
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