[WCUSP] Fwd: FW: [eFreePalestine] Re: [AL-AWDA] Who Are the Gemayels?
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> [AL-AWDA] Who Are the
> Gemayels?
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> Surely, a false flag operation has to be more likely
> than not? It is
> instructive that the shameful Phalange involvement
> in Sabra and Shatila is
> hardly mentioned in US/UK reports of this awful
> assassination.
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> Chris
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> In a message dated 23/11/2006 11:49:22 GMT Standard
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> sajoseph2005 at yahoo.com writes:
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> Who Are the Gemayels?
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> By Stan Goff
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> READ MORE: Ariel Sharon
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/ariel-sharon> ,
> John Bolton
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/john-bolton> ,
> Iraq
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/iraq> , Lebanon
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/lebanon> ,
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> Before we deconstruct the assassination of Pierre
> Gemayel in Beirut two days
> ago, we need to go back in history, to 1982.
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> September 15, 1982. Israeli occupation forces in
> Lebanon, commanded by
> Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, surround two large
> Palestinian refugee camps
> in Beirut. The names of the camps are Sabra and
> Shatila. No one is allowed
> in or out.
>
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>
> Israeli forces are allied with one faction of
> Lebanese, the Maronite
> Christian Phalangists, who have maintained an
> Israeli-supported militia
> along Lebanon's southern border.
>
>
>
> Lebanon, formerly an enclave of Syria, was under
> direct French control from
> the end of WWI until 1943. By the time it received
> its tentative
> independence from France, the French has guaranteed
> the domination of the
> then-majority Christians over the government, its
> adminsitrative
> apparatuses, and the economy. As greater and greater
> numbers of Muslims
> populated Lebanon, driven significantly by mass
> exlusions of Palestinians
> from Palestine (Israel) and Jordan (where many
> Plaestinian refugees
> originally went after being pushed out by the
> Israelis), this control was
> contested.
>
>
>
> Those attempts at resolving inequalities between
> Christan and Muslim
> resulted in sometimes violent reaction from the
> Christians, who clung
> jealously to their power. The close cultural ties
> between Syria (the
> Muslim-majority portion of the former French
> Mandate) and Muslims in Lebanon
> led directly to strong ties between Muslims under
> attack from Christian
> rightsts (organized as early as 1938 into the Kataeb
> Social Democratic Party
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalange> , "Phalange"
> for short, by a
> Lebanese Christian strongman named Pierre Gemayel
> <http://lexicorient.com/e.o/gemayel_p.htm> ), and to
> Syrian intervention in
> the affairs of its former enclave.
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> Pierre Gemayel was a big fan of Spain's fasicst
> dictator, Francisco Franco
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco> , and
> organized the Phalangists in a
> nearly identical structure to the Spanish Phalange
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange> . This is the
> Party that the US
> government, CNN, and both US political parties now
> tout as the hope of
> Lebanese democracy.
>
>
>
> Pierre's son, Bachir Gemayel, continued the
> Phalangist legacy, and organized
> Phalangist militias. In August, 1982, Bachir had
> just been elected
> president, in Christian-run elections that Muslims
> boycotted, at the height
> of a bloody civil war, now involving Lebanese
> Muslims, Christians, Druze,
> Palestinians, the Israelis, and the Syrians.
>
>
>
> Gemayel had "run" for election on the promise to
> smash the Palestinian
> Liberation Organization (PLO).
>
>
>
> September 14, 1982, nine days before Bashir Gemayal
> was due to take office,
> he was assassinated with a bomb, ostensibly by a
> Lebanese Christian working
> for the Syrians, named Habib Tanious Shartouni
> <http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990719/harb/2> .
>
>
>
> But the Phalangists' enemies were the Palestinians.
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> There was a swift reaction obviously coordinated
> with Sharon's Israeli
> military. That brings us back to:
>
> September 15, 1982. Israeli occupation forces in
> Lebanon, commanded by
> Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, surround two large
> Palestinian refugee camps
> in Beirut. The names of the camps are Sabra and
> Shatila. No one is allowed
> in or out. Revenge was on the minds of the
> Phalangists, and in coordination
> with the Israeli cordon sanitaire around the Sabra
> and Shatila camps, the
> Phalangists entered on the afternoon of Spetember
> 16th.
>
> For the next two days, until 8 PM, September 18th,
> they rampaged through the
> camps, dragging men, women, and children from their
> shanty-houses and hiding
> places and killing them.
>
> Israeli troops, who were part of the cordon, would
> claim that even though
> they knew the circumstances after Gemayel's
> asassination, even though they
> had allowed the Phalange militia to enter, even
> though they heard the
> screams and shots for over 36 hours, they had no
> idea what was happening in
> Sabra and Shatila.
>
>
>
> During hours of darkenss, at the request of the
> Phalangists, Israeli troops
> fired parachute flares over the camps to assist the
> Phalangists with
> illumination.
>
>
>
> Phalange Commander Elie Hobeika
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Hobeika>
> was overheard by an Israeli soldier telling a
> subordinate who had asked what
> to do with the women and children, "This is the last
> time you're going to
> ask me a question like that; you know exactly what
> to do." This reply was
> accompanied by laughter from other Phalangist
> militamen.
>
>
>
> Palestinians who tried to flee the camps were turned
> back by Israeli troops.
>
> Israelis claim that 700-800 were killed. The BBC put
> the number at 800.
> Later researchers put the number closer to 1,300.
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>
> Among Lebanese Muslims, who constitute a majority
> (55%), in addition to
> aroudn 200,000 displaced Palestinians, the Phalange
> tradition embodied by
> Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, nephew of Bachir
> Gemayel, is perceived as
> anything but democratic. Industry Minister Pierre
> Gemayel was assassinated
> two days ago in Beirut, and now we hear the outcry
> from UN Ambassador and
> world-class asshole John Bolton
>
<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Bolton>
> about Gemayel
> being part of some longstanding struggle for
> Lebanese democracy, and nary a
> mention of how the Phalange tradition has been one
> of support for the
> US-Israeli axis against Muslims.
>
>
>
> Instead, we hear the same drumbeat, the same
> demonizations of the only
> allies Lebanese Muslims have been able to count upon
> in defense against
> these imperial-comprador depredations: Syria, on
> behalf of the Lebanese
> Sunnis in the North, Hamas and the PLO on behalf of
> the Palestinians, and
> Southern Shia Hezbollah
>
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14226.htm>
> -- perhaps the
> most authentic grassroots Lebanese popular formation
> in the country, which
> has now commited the unforgiveable sin, defeating
> Israel
>
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ12Ak01.html>
> in combat.
>
>
>
> That this assassination comes just as the immensely
> popular Hezbollah is
> mounting a successful capaign to take down the
> US-"supported" government in
> Lebanon should not go unnoticed. And the possibility
> of a "false flag
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag> "
> operation should not yet be
> discounted, as Syria and Iran -- next on the US
> target list (if they can
> ever extricate themselves from the ongoing defeat in
> Iraq) -- are being
> promoted in the US media and by the US government as
> the heavies.
>
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