Word: gemayel
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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...
...time, the security of the Gemayel government was being bolstered by relatively small contingents of American, French, Italian and British peacekeeping forces, all of whom had underestimated the Lebanese capacity for settling old scores. Realizing almost too late the extent of the danger, the Reagan Administration asked the Israelis to postpone their withdrawal. Though the Israelis delayed their move by a few days, Washington concluded that the only hope for stability over the short term lay in shoring up the Gemayel government and the relatively new and untried Lebanese Army...
...symbol of this ancient and hopelessly intricate struggle became the hill town of Suq al Gharb. Here the Druze, having already virtually driven the Christian militiamen out of the mountains, hoped also to hold off the army of the Christian-led government. Here the Syrians hoped to weaken the Gemayel government, and here the Palestinians hoped to win a victory and perhaps a chance to return to West Beirut. The government and its army knew that they must make a stand. At midweek Gemayel, who has been slow in his efforts to broaden his political base or even to exert...
...past two weeks, however, the Administration realized that the Lebanese Army must somehow be given a stronger hand in order to bolster the Gemayel government. Last week, while sticking to the pretense that its ultimate aim was to protect the lives of U.S. military personnel on the ground, the Administration ordered the naval guns to attack Druze positions around Suq al Gharb. In so doing, the U.S. provided crucial help to the embattled Lebanese Army...
...neither the Prime Minister nor the Speaker of parliament, both of whom, under the 1943 agreement, are Muslims. Behind the demand is Syria's conviction that the present Beirut government is so dominated by right-wing Christians with Israeli connections that no Muslim member could be considered genuinely representative. Gemayel rejected the demands as unacceptable...