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"Lebanon, this small peaceful country, has never been among the nations that invaded others out of greed for expansion Rather, Lebanon has been like a second Vatican, calling for love and peace among nations and peoples." ~Sheikh Pierre Gemayel on 21 September 1979
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Happy Birthday Hakim! On this days 73 years ago, Doctor Samir Geagea was born.
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3/3 But Christians and especially Maronites rejected it, as Sarrail had redrawn districts so their votes would no longer dominate the election results. France then kept the sectarian system, leaving a legacy that still shapes Lebanon’s politics today.
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2/3 This would have abolished political sectarianism, giving Lebanon the chance to become a civil state and a consensual democracy instead of a sectarian one.
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1/3 In 1925, just before Lebanon’s Constitution was issued, French High Commissioner Maurice Paul Sarrail tried to end the sectarian political system in Lebanon. He called for elections by party lists and proportional representation without dividing seats by religion.
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ceremony, we used to ask television crews to focus their lights on Fouad Chehab when he made the sign of the cross or when he was preparing to receive Holy Communion but to no avail. The Christians were, are, and always will be fascinated by Camille Chamoun.
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What President Elias Sarkis said about President Camille Chamoun despite their differences: "Camille Chamoun is a strange phenomenon, even though Fouad Chehab was a practicing Christian. Christians do not feel their identity except through Camille Chamoun. At every religious
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The personal belongings of President Sheikh Bachir Gemayel that are still in his house in Bikfaya.
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To all the Aounists who think Samir Geagea killed Dany Chamoun, here’s what your idol said 👇👇
On this day, Danny Chamoun, his wife Ingrid Abdelnour, and their two children: Tarek (7) and Julian (5), were brutally murdered in their home. Samir Geagea was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for this heinous crime, yet later walked free through a political pardon!
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On February 24 1912, the Ottoman cruiser Avnilllah sank in the Port of Beirut after being bombarded by the Italian warships Garibaldi and Ferruccio
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Lebanese Forces Armored Company 712 in the Keserwani village of Wata al Joz in 1989
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October 21, 1990, the murder of Dany Chamoun and his family.
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The Lebanese Forces withdrawing from Beirut to Keserwan in 1991 as part of the Greater Beirut Plan. Photo taken in front of the Nahr el Kalb tunnel.
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President Camille Chamoun after surviving an assassination attempt when shots were fired at him as he was leaving the headquarters of the National Liberal Party (Ahrar), he later forgave the perpetrator.
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20 October 1978: Sheikh Bachir Gemayel accuses the U.S State Department of wilfully ignoring Syria's ambitions in Lebanon, instead of confronting or addressing them.
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