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...scale war with each other on Lebanese soil. Last week, in fact, sporadic fighting broke out between the Syrians and both the Israelis and the Christian Phalange forces, which are closely aligned with the Israelis. The Lebanese Parliament had elected a new national president, the leader of the Christian Phalangist forces, Bashir Gemayel, who was despised by many Lebanese Muslims as an "Israeli stooge." But the Israeli siege of West Beirut was over, and the domination of Lebanon by the P.L.O...
...withdrawn from Beirut, the deeply divided Parliament went ahead last week and elected Israel's chief military and political ally in Lebanon to a six-year term as President. He is Bashir Gemayel, 34, commander of the country's principal Christian militias and leader of the Phalangist Party. Gemayel was the only candidate for the post, largely because no other Christian leader dared to oppose him. He promptly declared that his election had been "a big achievement for our democracy," and pledged to reunite the country and re-establish its sovereignty by hastening the departure of foreign forces...
...election, perhaps, are the Palestinian civilians who will remain behind after the P.L.O. fighters have left and who fear Gemayel. Even now, mothers in West Beirut are prone to tell their misbehaving children: "Don't do that. Bashir will come and get you." Last week Gemayel's Phalangist militiamen were taking food out of some cars heading into West Beirut and throwing it into the street. Palestinians are afraid that he may order a harsh crack down to drive them out of the country. Said a retired schoolteacher: "Bashir's election means that all the suffering...
...groups during and after the 1975-76 civil war. In June 1978, Gemayel's forces lashed out brutally against former President the Suleiman Franjieh, who was one of his chief political opponents among the Christian population. In a lightning raid on the Franjieh summer resort village of Ehden, Phalangist soldiers murdered the ex-President's son and political heir Tony, along with his wife and two-year-old daughter. Gemayel coldly dismissed the episode as a "social revolt against feudalism." And in July 1980, Gemayel's troops virtually wiped out the Christian militia of ex-President Camille...
...street, Ahmed points to the left, where the Phalangists are positioned, and to the Israelis on the right. At times he can see the enemy quite clearly. He can see their faces, but it disturbs him to think of them as individuals. Shuweifat is dead still; the apartment houses are still; the alleys like alleys in a painting. Suddenly there is a barrage of gunshots from the Phalangist side, but no one and nothing is hit. The P.L.O. soldiers return the fire. A skinny cat runs for cover. A chicken rapidly crosses the road, answering at least one question. More...