French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has said the international community should not arm the Syrian opposition due to the risk of civil war. Arming the opposition could lead to “a catastrophe even larger than the one that exists today,” he said. Speaking on France-Culture radio Thursday, Juppe said that the Syrian people were deeply divided. “If we give arms to a certain faction of the Syrian opposition, we would make a civil war among Christians, Alawites, Sunnis and Shiites,” he warned.