If the aim is to promote a narrower national identity centred on Mount Lebanon, Syriac is a poor rallying point. The Druze, one of Mount Lebanon’s founding communities, do not identify with it. That is precisely the point Makram Rabah made in the post your own seems to be responding to. Melkite Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Armenians do not identify with a Syriac identity either; together, they make up nearly half of Lebanon’s Christian population. In any case, Syriac was never the spoken language of Lebanon, nor even the Maronites’ vernacular. Spoken in Edessa, it became a liturgical language among the Maronites. In Lebanon, before the Arab invasion, including among the Maronites, people spoke Western Aramaic, Greek or Canaanite languages, including Phoenician, depending on the period and location. The left and Soros have nothing to do with this. This is a matter of historical truth and political viability. Even a narrower national identity — up to the vision of a “Little Lebanon” — must be grounded in history and reality, not in fanciful narratives.