"... an attempt to drive a wedge into the two year-old alliance between Hizbullah and Aounist Christians..."

In the ECONOMIST, here

"..... March 14th’s latest challenge to Hizbullah appears to have been partly an attempt to drive a wedge into the two year-old alliance between Hizbullah and Aounist Christians, who resent being excluded from power, but are not especially keen on the Shia party’s weaponry or anti-Western rhetoric. That strategy has not worked. Despite the defection of many Christians this alliance has held, so giving broader sectarian cover to Hizbullah...."