You are right about the relative numbers but the Maronites actually started the fight by shooting a partridge on Druze land  That is how petty things get there I have written  books about Lebanon btw  I dont think one wants to get down to the who shot the first partridge level and killed by Druzes is pretty provocative given that it was a fight which the Christians lost  The Middle East does not have much pity on the losing side have you seen the Assyrian tree of heads in the British Museum  Maybe the problem is the sources linked are really shoddy The CIA handbook  an old piece of cp  I will try to find tome to improve on this says