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Whatever fragile equilibrium the Lebanese managed to recover during the ensuing years was upset by the Israeli invasion of June 1982. The Israelis openly took sides with the Phalange and welcomed the election of Bashir Gemayel, the leader of the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces, as President. When Gemayel was assassinated nine days before his inauguration, his older brother Amin instead took the job following his unanimous election by parliament. With some 38,000 occupation troops in Lebanon, Israel tried to impose a peace treaty on the country. The Lebanese refused, but after U.S. pressure the two countries signed an agreement...
...latest round of fighting in Beirut was set off by a rivalry over political posters. Two weeks ago, the Christian Phalangists celebrated the first anniversary of the late Bashir Gemayel's election as President by putting up posters of their martyred hero. Last week it was the turn of Beirut's large Shi'ite Muslim community. It launched a poster campaign to honor its spiritual leader, Imam Musa Sadr, who disappeared five years ago during a visit to Libya. On Sunday afternoon, several young men in a predominantly Shi'ite suburb in the south of Beirut...
...same way, it made no direct mention of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and formally annexed in 1981, leaving the Syrians with no incentive to cooperate. Then, scarcely a fortnight after the plan was announced, came the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, the Israeli move into West Beirut, and the massacre of an estimated 700 to 800 Arab civilians by Lebanese Christian militiamen. Angry that their military victory in Lebanon was turning into a political disaster, the Israelis set back the timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. They were...
...curious relationship between Amin Gemayel and the Christian troops explains the delay in reaching an agreement. The Phalangist Party was founded by Amin's father Pierre, and its militia is the dominant group in the Lebanese Forces, the combined Christian militia. Amin's brother Bashir, who was assassinated last September a few days before he was due to be inaugurated as Lebanon's President, was head of the Lebanese Forces. But Amin Gemayel, who became President in his brother's place, was never as close to the militia as either Pierre or Bashir, and as President...
...ignored the President's request for a freeze on West Bank settlements, and only four days later conspicuously gave the O.K. for eight new settlements in the occupied territories. What especially infuriated U.S. officials was Israel's entry into West Beirut after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel. The move broke a pledge made to Washington, and created the conditions in which Sharon and his commanders could be held indirectly accountable for the Beirut massacre that began one day later...