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	Guardians of the Cedars
		The politics of Guardians of the Cedars is an extreme form of Lebanese nationalism which holds that the Lebanese are an ancient race and it is they, and not the Greeks, who are the founders of western civilisation.
		Guardians of the Cedars started to form a militia in the years leading up to the Lebanese Civil War and commenced military operations in April1975.
		Guardians of the Cedars were involved in the massacre of Palestinians at Tel al Zaatar refugee camp in 1976.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/g/gu/guardians_of_the_cedars.html (487 words)

	Guardians of the Cedars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guardians of the Cedars are a right-wing Lebanese Nationalist Party and former militia in Lebanon.
		In 1985 the Guardians of the Cedars mounted a fierce defense of Kfar-Fallus and Jezzine.
		The political ideology of Guardians of the Cedars is a comprehensive and deep form of Lebanese nationalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guardians_of_the_Cedars (1227 words)

	Lebanese War Website Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This has led Guardians of the Cedars to maintain that Lebanese people are not Arabs, indeed, to advocate the de-Arabisation of the Lebanon and call for the restoration of the Phoenician language and alphabet.
		The Guardians of the Cedars were allegedly involved in the massacre of Palestinians at Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp in 1976.
		It was in Sidon, during the Israeli occupation, that The Guardians of the Cedars were widely accused of acting as a death squad and were believed by many to be responsible for the murders and disappearances of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
	www.lebwar.org /political_parties/political_parties_id=11.htm (580 words)

	Dossier: Etienne Saqr (January 2003)
		Etienne Saqr, the leader of the nationalist Guardians of the Cedars movement, is among the most notable exceptions to this trend.
		The Guardians conceived of Lebanon as a distinct non-Arab nation descended from the ancient Phoenicians, an idea which reflected the writings of Aql (who considered the Lebanese dialect to be a distinct language and introduced a Latinized alphabet for it).
		Guardians forces under the command of Joseph Karam (aka Alloush) played a key role in defending Christian villages in 1984-85, though many hamlets were nevertheless overrun.
	www.meib.org /articles/0301_ld.htm (2919 words)

	Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation / Press Releases
		Release from the Guardians of the Cedars (Arabic) 30.12.01
		Release from the Guardians of the Cedars (Arabic) 26.12.01
		Release from the Guardians of the Cedars (English) 6/6/01
	www.clhrf.com /guardiansofthecedars.htm (270 words)

	The Guardians of the Cedars
		This ailing situation, compelled the people who founded the political program of the 'Guardians of the Cedars' to rely on thought and thought alone, as the ideological framework based on their belief that thought remains while persons are bound by death.
		Henceforth, the ideology is a complete framework in time and place and the persons serve it successively contrary to what most parties did when they subordinated the ideologies to the servitude of the persons and their continuity, the thing that led to their demise with the death of the persons.
		For the 'Guardians of the Cedars', the emphasis on Lebanon's history is not meant for exultation about the glory of the past but to enhance the present, reject its menacing reality and then, based on our past and heritage, we move forward to a better and magnificent one.
	www.gotc.org /ideology2.htm (1591 words)

	Smear campaign targetting the Guardians of the Cedars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Guardians of the Cedars and its commander Mr.
		The members of the Guardians of the Cedars are innocent of any such accusations and they have got the consciousness of the Lebanese people as testimony.
		The Guardians of the Cedars are a pro-Lebanese movement whatever the religion might be.
	www.gotc-se.org /statements/Smear_campaign.html (542 words)

	Guardians of the Cedars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Like the Phalangists and the Tigers, who both cooperated openly with Israel, the Guardians of the Cedars' went further and incorporated collaboration with Israel into their ideology.
		The Guardians of the Cedars were involved in the alleged massacre of Palestinians at Tel al Zaatar refugee camp in 1976.
		We have the moral right, reinforced by well-organized public relations plans and political preparations." It was in Sidon, during the Israeli occupation, that The Guardians of the Cedars were widely accused of acting as a death squad and were believed to be responsible for the murders and disapppearances of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.
	guardians-of-the-cedars.kiwiki.homeip.net (640 words)

	Parties of Lebanon - Guardians of the Cedars
		The motto of the Guardians of the Cedars came to light: The Word was married to the Gun and it gave birth to the Guardians of the Cedars.
		Despite its relatively small size its militia fought very aggressively and was involved in some of the heaviest engagements of the war including the battles of Tal el-Zaatar, Jisr el-Basha, Nabaa and Qarantina Palestinian camps.
		The Guardians with a motto of 'Until no Palestinian remains on Lebanese soil' were greatly feared by the Palestinians.
	www.warsoflebanon.com /guardians.html (400 words)

	Interview with the leader of the Guardians of the Cedars Party
		It is our pleasure here at the LCCC to have the opportunity to have this in-depth and comprehensive conversation with you, through which we hope to convey your ideas and views as leader of the Guardians of the Cedars Party to the Lebanese people in occupied Lebanon and in all the countries of the Diaspora.
		We then expanded and grew until we were present in fixed positions in all villages and towns of the Eastern sector, as well as a number of villages and towns that had fallen under the Palestinian-Syrian occupation in the Western sector, the South, the Bekaa, and the North.
		The Guardians of the Cedars (GOC) were born as an idea in the early 1970s with the founding of the Lebanese Renewal Party as I mentioned earlier.
	www.clhrf.com /guardians/abuarz4.9.03.htm (3861 words)

	Guardians of Cedars Party Protests Arrests of its Leaders, Clarifies Stance on Palestinians \|\| News \|\| CGGL.org
		The Guardians of the Cedars Party has asserted that its policy about Palestinians in Lebanon is based on prohibiting their settlement in the country rather than urging every Lebanese to kill a Palestinian.
		"The official slogan of the Guardians of the Cedars is that no Palestinian should remain on Lebanese soil," said a party statement carried by An Nahar on Friday.
		The Party's statement recalled that the Guardians of the Cedars had rejected the 1989 Taef Accord from the first minute and has unwaveringly advocated Lebanon's withdrawal from the Arab League.
	www.cggl.org /scripts/new.asp?id=411 (435 words)

	Feb24
		Given the context of a US backed Saudi performance fighting against Syria and Iran terrorism proxies on the ground, the Guardians of the Cedars, excluded from both alliances had little room to maneuver politically from its original concepts as it enjoyed during its expediency in Lebanon past political mosaic.
		His distinction of pro western Lebanese nationalism inspired enmity from its Arab neighbors, mainly Syria who saw the Guardians of the Cedars a dangerous school of thought, threatening the characteristics of an anti West Middle East alliance they are trying to create with the help of Iran and other.
		Lately, the underground of the Guardians was forbidden to apply politically on a national level due to the heavy influence of Saudi Arabia from one side and a threatening Islamic Iran from the other.
	www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/2006/February/Feb24/feb24.html (954 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Samaha: Guardians of the Cedars bring fascist, Nazi ideology to Lebanon
		[The "Guardians of the Cedars" held a press conference on September 13 and announced their return to Lebanon's political life, and released slogans calling on the Lebanese to kill the Palestinians.]
		However, Samaha said that the Guardians of the Cedars’ extremist statements do not represent the Lebanese but a small minority that could be ignored.
		He said: “The comeback of this mixture (Guardians of the Cedars) to the current Lebanese situation makes it impossible to speak in the name of the nation,” (…;) and it puts them alone, and even in confrontation with the other.” - As Safir, Lebanon
	www.lebanonwire.com /0905/05091504MW.asp (174 words)

	Tel El Zaatar 1976 'Tal el zaatar' ' Tel al zaatar ' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The attack was a three pronged affair on the outer perimeter of the camp with the Guardians on the Dautzigian front, the Ahrar Tigers on the Gervais front and the Tanzim attacking Tallet el mir.
		A member of the Guardians of the Cedars, called on all hostages in the camp to seek shelter pending their rescue after the battle had been won.
		Chamoun's NLP Ahrar and Guardians of the Cedars troops pushed into the perimeters of the Nabaa district on a search-and-destroy mission whilest the pressure on the camp was kept up.
	www.1stbusinesslebanon.com /civilwar/civil1.html (4381 words)

	The Guardians of the Cedars - Australia
		Statements from the Guardians of the Cedars - Australia
		Released Articles from the Sydney chapter of the Guardians of the Cedars
		Weekly Communique from the Guardians of the Cedars
	www.gotc-au.org (29 words)

	Democracy in Lebanon - Lebanon, Arabs and Arabism
		16 September 2005, the Guardians of the Cedars execution committee were arrested by the Lebanese Government, charged for promoting sectarian conflict, violence against the Palestinians, and trespassing the Lebanese constitution by denying Arabism.
		The Guardians of the Cedars were definitely not sectarian, definitely not violent: the only cause still “valid” for their arrest is contradicting Lebanese constitution by denying Lebanon’s Arabic identity.
		PS: The Guardians of the Cedars are the Lebanese party which stress the most on secularism.
	www.democracyinlebanon.org /DemLebForum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=98 (4598 words)

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		The "Guardians of the Cedars" Party's political campaign include calls to deport and kill all foreigners and Palestinians; Party's platform states that the civil war in the country had never ended
		In a bid to reestablish its position in the Lebanese political arena, the Christian "Guardians of the Cedars" party is calling to "deport all Palestinians and foreigners from Lebanon and take over their possessions."
		The party, which has been active in Lebanon's political system since the seventies, is recently working to regain its position in the local scene by way of inciting hate and internal strife.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3142190,00.html (274 words)

	Lebanese Renewal Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lebanese Renewal Party (LRP) is a banned political party in Lebanon formed in 1972 as the political arm of the paramilitary force known as the Guardians of the Cedars.
		The LNR and the Guardians of the Cedars were uncompromisingly opposed to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
		Still, some of the rhetoric used by the LRP in advocating its domestic policies was revived during the Cedar Revolution in 2005, which forced the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon and led to expectations of political reform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lebanese_Renewal_Party (669 words)

	History News Network
		Sakr founded the Guardians of the Cedars Party in 1975 and initiated the Lebanese Front in 1976.
		His Guardians of the Cedars Party was, however, not involved in the military struggle that ensued between General Aoun and Lebanese Forces commander Samir Geagea.
		Yet the national future of Lebanon remains clouded in doubt and tension, as acts of terror against anti-Syrian elements continue, the March "Cedar Revolution" is stymied, and the country totters between freedom and political paralysis and breakdown.
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/19648.html (954 words)

	The Factions
		The Guardians was established in September 1975, when Communiqué No. 1 was issued to denounce advocates of the partition of Lebanon.
		Despite its relatively small size its militia, the Guardians fought very aggressively and were involved in some of the heaviest engagements of the war including the battles of Tal el-Zaatar, Jisr el-Basha, Nabaa and Qarantina Palestinian camps.
		In a statement in 1990, it greeted the occupation of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein by asserting that "Arabism is the undisputed lie of the 20th century." It called upon the people to rally around the leadership of General Aoun, and it demanded the withdrawal of Lebanon from the Arab League.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/teams.html (8641 words)

	Abu Arz - Future Movement - Almustaqbal
		This meeting was held in the Headquarters of the Guardians of the Cedars in Achrafieh.
		This was realized when the Lebanese Resistance parties: Kataeb, Liberals, Guardians of the Cedars and others, besieged the Syrian positions during several weeks and forced them to withdraw after bitter battles that cost us many martyrs, and much destruction to property.
		This support consisted in placing the military and political capacities of the Party of the Guardians of the Cedars at the disposal of the military government.
	www.futuremovement.org /forum/showthread.php?t=9071 (2169 words)

	LebaneseForces.com: Fighting for Freedom
		The two leaders who fielded the mightiest rival Christian and Druze militias during the 1975-1990 civil war agreed on the need for dialogue among all Lebanese factions on the political spectrum to "consolidate and buttress Lebanon's independence," An Nahar reported Thursday.
		The Guardians of the Cedars party invite you to join them in a demonstration in Lebanon this Saturday at 3PM in front of the Escwa building.
		Regarding LF's relation with the Hizbullah in the light of the implementation of UN Resolution 1559, Geagea said that at present, "We should focus on Resolution 1595." This resolution called for the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
	www.lebaneseforces.com /2005_11_01_archive.asp (2990 words)

	Lebanon detains 3 people From the Guardians of the Cedars - el Khazen Family Prince of Maronites : Lebanese Families ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Prosecutor Mukhtar Saad said the three members of the Guardians of the Cedars were detained for "issuing a statement that incites internal sedition."
		Tuesday's press conference was the first time the Guardians of the Cedars had appeared in public since the group was banned in the 1990s.
		Its leader, Etienne Saqr, was condemned to death in absentia by a Lebanese court in 1996 for collaboration with Israel.
	www.khazen.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=856&Itemid=1 (370 words)

	BASHIR GEMAYEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Lebanese Forces being a coalition of of Christian militias of the Kataeb Party (Phalange), National Liberal Party, Tanzim, and the Guardians of the Cedars.
		When William Hawi, Commander-in-Chief of the Kataeb Military Council was killed in the Lebanese Forces siege of the PLO stronghold in Tell Zaatar in July 1976, Bashir was chosen to succeed him.
		By August 30, he was appointed head of the unified command of the Lebanese Forces, a coalition of the Christian militias of the Kataeb Party, National Liberal Party, the Tanzim and the Guardians of the Cedars.
	www.falange.us /bashir.htm (2918 words)

	Arutz 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(IsraelNN.com) A Christian Lebanese organization called Guardians of the Cedars is running a recruitment campaign that calls for expelling or killing Arabs in PLO refugee camps and confiscating their property.
		The Guardians of the Cedars is formulating itself as a political party anew after the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.
		Lebanese police arrested three leaders of the Guardians party for "breaching judicial clauses" and "harming relations with Arab countries" following the September 13 press conference.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=90515 (145 words)

	Blogdigger Search: blogID:20730 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A Thank You LetterAbu Arz, the leader of The Guardians of the Cedars has sent us and the Lebanese-Forces.org website a thank you letter for standing by the GOC members arrested in Lebanon.
		The Guardians of the Cedars Hereos Are FreeThe Gua...
		The Guardians of the Cedars Hereos Are FreeThe Guardians of the Cedars - National Lebanese Movement would like to thank the Lebanese people in general and the Guardians of the Cedars members specially for all the support that they showed in order to free our 3 heroes: Habib Younes, Joseph Tawok and...
	blogdigger.com /search?q=blogID:20730 (650 words)

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