Special to The Daily Star This week, former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri joined a pantheon of modern Middle Eastern statesmen - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - who dared to challenge the status quo and paid dearly for their vision. On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese from all social and religious groups came together for his funeral, marking the occasion with unprecedented national unity and defying those who continue to manipulate internal tensions in order to justify Syria's occupation. Today, and for the foreseeable future, the international community should sustain...