Stop the idyllic vision of Christian Lebanon
Bruno Etienne, radical Islamism , 1987 242-245:
"It must be remembered, because the French have, I think he, a little idyllic vision of a Christian democratic Lebanon, all the hatred that has swept this country decades ... Who killed Bashir Gemayel why? His father (Peter) had founded the Phalange on the model of German youth ... which he had admired the discipline with the Berlin Olympics ... The militia Camille Chamoun is liquidated Bashir Gemayel in 1980 by ... (...) when we know that the most bloodthirsty of all, Soleiman Frangieh, brought the Syrians (there are more than forty years now!) To save the Christians? ... To take power, he celebrated a "bloody mass" at which all competitors perished ... He should have better read the Gospel: "He who kills by the sword shall perish by the sword ... In this case, his son and thirty of his followers were massacred in their turn by the Phalangists in June 1978. (...) To understand the emergence of the group and its Amal
dissent, we must go back a few years back, and especially the fact that the Palestinians and Lebanese-Shiite and mixed areas of emigration to South-East Beirut or in the famous camp of Tell-el-Zaatar, provided a labor cheap for the Lebanese industry. I have some difficulty in singing the concert of nations on the famous so-called "Lebanese miracle 'for which are rarely provided clear explanations other than those of a particular species and specific to capitalism Lebanese it seems to me gotta be somewhere extortion of surplus as there is a beautiful farm of Palestinians in the Gulf ... "
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