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| | Lebanese Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Lebanese Forces, which had grown into a rival powerbroker in the Christian parts of the capital, protested by suspending all its broadcasts; Aoun shut down other newspapers who refused to comply. | | | Lebanese victims of kidnapping and wartime "disappeared" are less talked about, but number in the tens of thousands. | | | While he seems to have had significant Christian support for this, he was still perceived as a sectarian leader among others by the Muslim population, who distrusted his agenda; he was also plagued by the challenge to his legitimacy put forth by the Syrian-backed West Beirut government of Elias Hrawi. |
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| | Lebanon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Lebanese society is modern, educated, and perhaps comparable to European societies of the Mediterranean. | | | Israel's plans for Lebanon suffered a severe setback on September 14, 1982, with the assassination of the Phalangist leader and President-elect Bachir Gemayel, (who had rallied all of the Lebanese and most of the political parties around him and a unified Lebanon,) who was regarded as secretly sympathetic to Israel. | | | Lebanese civil society enjoys significantly more freedoms than elsewhere in the Arab world. |
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| | The Civil War |
| | Lebanese optimism was bolstered by changing Israeli politics and policies. | | | Lebanese and Syrian armies; Israeli advisers were also present on the Christian side. | | | The United States reputation among the Lebanese was enhanced when a Marine officer was obliged to draw his pistol to halt an Israeli advance, an event sensationalized in the news media. |
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| | Lebanese Civil War 1988 - 1990 |
| | When Mouawad tried to conceal with the Lebanese constitutional government a big dispute grew between him and the Syrian officers.He was assassinated by blowing his car of 200 kg TNT in the area occupied by the Syrian troops in western Beirut on | | | Fights opposing the Lebanese Forces and General Aoun’s army were reported and deprived certain regions of electricity, phone, and water. | | | The Lebanese Forces respond by sending all the troops under the control of Aoun same as for the LF media |
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| | Lebanese Civil War [Cafe Liban.net] |
| | They were also angered by his support for the Lebanese Arab Army, the formation of which they saw as a serious blow to their attempts to stabilize the Lebanese situation. | | | To underline the seriousness of its demands and further increase the pressure on the Palestinian movement and Lebanese government to comply, the IDF responded to two cross-border shelling incidents against Nahariya in November with massive artillery and air attacks against villages in the south. | | | The PLO and Lebanese National Movement were less enthused by this apparent attempt to contain or crush them. |
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| | Exiled Lebanese General: Civil War Caused By Foreign Interference |
| | Aoun said that although Lebanon had a pluralistic society, the country could have avoided a civil war in 1975, if it weren't for the Arab, particularly the Palestinian and Syrian interferences in domestic affairs. | | | He added that a large group of Lebanese believe that Arab unity marks a decline rather than progress regarding their present values. | | | Aoun said the concept of "Arab unity," which attracts a large section of Middle Eastern groups, cannot yet be applied, as the concept of unity has not yet developed in Arab societies. |
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| | Lebanese War, Consequences |
| | Dozens of people were arrested, accused of involvement in armed attacks against Lebanese or Syrian officials or of "collaborating" with Israel. | | | The Lebanese Forces, the coalition of Christian militias, accepted in late 1985 the need for a Syrian-imposed agreement in Lebanon but retained its long-held suspicions of Syrian motives. | | | Members of their families were not informed where they were; relatives went from prison to prison looking for them without success. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Lebanese close civil war chapters |
| | All the warlords were bad, but he was the worst, he made his own people, the Christians, suffer. | | | But in his speech, Mr Geagea thanked Mr Aoun, and other wartime foes, for their efforts to secure his release as he called on the Lebanese to look ahead and work at rebuilding their country. | | | Mr Geagea always proclaimed his innocence and his supporters insisted that his imprisonment was part of a Syrian plot to complete its dominance over Lebanon and eliminate those who opposed it. |
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| | Lebanese Civil War |
| | Lebanese Forces, led by Bashir Gemayel, like Chamoun also a Maronite Christian, yet his group allied with the PLO. | | | — October: Discussions in At Ta'if, Saudi Arabia between most of the surviving Lebanese parliamentarians (58 attending, 4 not, the last elections had been held in 1972). | | | The war was fought along both religious as well as political borders, where especially the Maronite Christians, Shi'i Muslims, the Druze, PLO, the Israeli as well as the Syrian army were the main contenders. |
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| | The Lebanese Civil War: History, Memory, Literature |
| | The confessional nature of Lebanese society or the interplay of foreign and domestic political agendas are often blamed for inciting the expression of primordial identities; others have argued that the Lebanese Civil War was actually a conflict between various communities over the nature of Lebanese history and how it was to be written. | | | century; with ramifications far beyond Lebanon itself, it has indelibly left its mark on generations of Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Israelis, and Americans. | | | Situating the Civil War: Lebanese Geography, Demography and Political History |
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| | Correspondents Report - Lebanese civil war: archive report |
| | PHIL STODDART: This has traditionally been a real eye glazer, you know Lebanese politics is not something that the public is very much into as they would say here, and it's not on the tip of everybody's lips until about the end of August, when people began to get worried. | | | Correspondents Report - Lebanese civil war: archive report | | | PHIL STODDART: The new kind of Lebanon is a Lebanon that is much more Arab in the sense that it's not perceived by many Lebanese as any longer being able to stay off to one side as some sort of Christian bastion, a Western Christian bastion in the Middle East. |
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| | An Iraqi's Thoughts: Lebanese civil war. |
| | The life and views of an Iraqi living in exile, hoping that the people inside Iraq one day attain the chances and opportunities that I have been lucky enough to enjoy. | | | I have never left a comment before, but I have enjoyed reading your blog. | | | The lebanese civil war is really relvant to Iraq now as well, i usually use it as a reference. |
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Lebanese remember civil war |
| | Pro-Syrian Prime Minister-designate Omar Karami said he could not form a Cabinet and that he was stepping down. | | | But Christians and Muslims have shown unprecedented unity following the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which sparked massive protests against Syria. | | | The war killed 150,000 people and ravaged a once-prosperous nation. |
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| | Lebanese Civil War 1958 |
| | The 1958 Civil War was instigated by Lebanese Muslims and Druzes who were inspired by the February 1958 unification of Egypt and Syria and agitated to make Lebanon a member of the new United Arab Republic. | | | The revolt almost became a religious conflict between Christians and Muslims... | | | Pro-Nasser demonstrations grew in number and in violence until a full-scale rebellion was underway. |
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| | Time To Commemorate The End Of Lebanese Civil War By Robert Fisk |
| | Eight Christians had been found murdered outside the electricity headquarters and Bashir Gemayel directed that 80 Muslims must pay with their lives. | | | The conflict was then called the "War of the Other" - of the foreigners, not of the Lebanese who were actually doing the killing. | | | The Israelis invaded, twice; the American Marines came and were suicide-bombed in their base at the airport. |
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| | Cedarland - The Lebanon Site |
| | Please spare a thought for the Lebanese prisoners that are still being held in Israeli and Syrian jails | | | A Full and Detailed Account of the Lebanese War. | | | The Lebanese Constitution, Accords, and Treaties Regarding Lebanon. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Lebanon 1958 |
| | The 1958 civil war in Lebanon was instigated by Lebanese Muslims who were inspired by the February 1958 unification of Egypt and Syria and wanted to make Lebanon a member of the newly formed United Arab Republic. | | | The role of the Marines, in a situation described by the U.S. Department of Defense as "like war but not war", was to support the legal Lebanese government against any foreign invasion, specifically from Syria. | | | Although the war took a toll of several thousand lives, it was regarded by many people as a comic opera, especially when 5000 U.S. Marines were landed on the beaches near Beirut and came ashore amongst swimmers and sunbathers. |
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| | Lebanese Mark Civil War Anniversary During Political Crisis |
| | For the first time, Lebanese have been called on to take part in national reconciliation events to remember the war that killed 150,000 people. | | | The commemoration of the civil war, which ended in 1990, has special significance because of political turmoil following the February 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al Hariri. | | | Lebanese Mark Civil War Anniversary During Political Crisis |
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| | Lebanese Civil War 1975-1976 |
| | Palestinians also lived in Lebanon, particularly in the south in refugee camps or in bases from which guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) carried out attacks on neighboring Israel. | | | Lebanese Muslims tended to sympathize with the PLO... |
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| | Lebanese Civil War Lebanese History Questia.com Online Library |
| | ...Chapter 5 The Lebanese Civil War 101...raging in the Lebanese Communist Party...later during the civil war and was one of...ideological web of the Lebanese Communist... | | | The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon (Chap. | | | ...of its intervention in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-76, the paramountcy...environment by the eve of the Lebanese Civil War. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Lebanese Civil War |
| | Lebanese Civil War, conflict from April 1975 to October 1990 pitting the many ethnic and religious groups of Lebanon against one another. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Home Page Lebanese Civil War |
| | This site is dedicated to the Lebanese civil war that started in 1975 and ended in 1990. | | | In the coming months, I will add newspaper clips, links and other articles related to the civil war in | | | The main portion will consist of historic newspaper articles from various newspapers. |
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| | the-lebanon.com :: Lebanese Civil War |
| | It considers this essential for the reconstruction of Lebanese post-war society, by generating a consistent national reconciliation and by promoting institutions that protect peace and prevent a return to war. | | | A cultural space created in Beirut at the end of the Lebanese war. | | | "The Paramount Reality of the Beirutis: War Literature and the Lebanese Conflict" by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab. |
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| | THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR, 1975-1988. |
| | Traces the factors leading up to the Lebanese internal conflict and the roles played by Lebanon's various confessional sects and foreign powers (particularly Syria and Israel) in the conflict. | | | PAGE LENGTHS, FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES: The title of the paper, usually typed in capital letters, is followed by a brief description of the paper and a specification of text page length (NOT including the bibliography or endnote pages), number of footnotes or citations, and number of bibliographic references. | | | Concludes with a discussion of the prerequisites for a solution to the lebanese problem. |
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