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  Kataeb 1
The division between these two poles has less to do with nationalist identification than with political calculations and self-advancement.
In recent months, this polarization has generated internal struggles deep within the ranks of two once powerful Christian political institutions - the Phalange (Kataeb) party and the banned Lebanese Forces (LF) party.
Within each of these groups, political elites backed by President Emile Lahoud and the staunchly pro-Syrian military-security establishment have launched a concerted drive to seize control and sideline those who remain committed to bringing about a Syrian withdrawal.
www.falangist.com /kataeb1.htm   (0 words)

  
  The Lebanese Kataeb
Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, founder and leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party and father of two Presidents of the Lebanese Republic, the late President-elect Sheikh Bashir Gemayel and the former President Sheikh Amine Gemayel.
In the early days of the Kataeb Party, the Party opposed both the attempts by the pan-Arabists to dominate Lebanon and the French efforts to dominate Lebanon under the mandate.
By 1943, the Kataeb membership reached 35,000 due to their increasing popularity and a change of rules which allowed women to join the party.
www.geocities.com /kataeb_lebnen/pierrebio.html   (550 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kataeb
The group, Kataeb al-Awdah (Brigades of the Return - a reference to the Palestinian refugees' right of return), is an offshoot of Fatah, the biggest...
Mayasar Abu Zneid, wife of incarcerated Abeel Al Majeed (age:36) accused of recruiting suicide bomber Sufyan Jabarin of Dhahiriya village.
All were believed to have belonged to the Fatah wing Kataeb Shuhada al-Aqsa (the Brigades of the al-Aqsa Martyrs).
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Kataeb   (820 words)

  
 Chapter 9
The decision was obviously dictated by feelings of grief and bereavement, fanatic attachment to the Kataeb Party from which they all came, and to cut the ground from under President Camille Chamoun’s feet, as he had the favors of the Israelis.
He and Nazo, Nazir Najarian, a Kataeb Party military commander who had led Kataeb troops in the downtown area of Beirut, Al Assouak, were instrumental in the Lebanese war.
The Kataeb Party, with all its might and supremacy, committed itself to his care, and he simmered his way up undisturbed, striking secret alliances and luring supporters blindly devoted to him into believing in him and following in his footsteps.
www.aceviper.net /members/cobra/09.html   (1606 words)

  
 The Lebanese Kataeb | Home
I know the Kataeb of Pierre Gemayel; the Kataeb of Independence and sovereignty; the Kataeb of humble peasants and modest people who awarded their soul to: God, Country, and Family.
A Kataeb that rejected outside hegemony over Lebanon and refused to be anyone's lackey.
I also look at a united Kataeb mounting from the spirits of those ho built it with tears, struggle, and martyrdom.
www.geocities.com /kataeb_lebnen/index.html   (290 words)

  
  Amin Gemayel Says His Family’s History "Runs Parallel To Lebanon’s"
It was this fear, he added, which resulted in Aoun’s exile and the imprisonment of Samir Geagea, “whose trial was political,” Gemayel alleged, and tailored to the needs of Syria.
This cannot be done, he argued, as long as the Kataeb face state persecution.
By curtailing the Kataeb, he lamented, “the Christian political scene has lost its honest, brave, and legitimate speaker.
www.wrmea.com /archives/october01/0110029.html   (1978 words)

  
 Guardians of the Cedars Statemente
At the 25th convention of the Kataeb Party held last week in Kesrouan there was a bizarre mix of political figures, parties, and Arab Nationalist, fundamentalist, and terrorist organizations that attended and participated in the convention activities.
As to the mad rush to power and money, it pushed the Kataeb Party leadership to physically liquidate its opponents, starting with the massacres of Ehden and Safra and ending with the massacres between the army and the Lebanese Forces, which brought about the loss of everything that had been achieved.
The Kataeb leadership had a lot to do in making this deal and we all know the destructive results that came out, and continue to come out, of that deal.
www.gotc.org /bayeen_13_12_03.htm   (707 words)

  
 Lebanese Phalanx (Lebanon)
The Phalanx party is the same thing as Kataeb —which is Arabic for phalanx—; or as they are most commonly called the Phalange.
This flag is the Lebanese Kataeb one, according to the Kataeb Toronto website (image here) and the Kataeb Sweden website (images here and here, photograph here).
The flag above is a combination of the Lebanese flag and the Kataeb flag, with the Kataeb flag in wrong colours.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/lb}katae.html   (473 words)

  
 Bachir Gemayel Biography
His father was Pierre Gemayel, founder and president of the Lebanese Kataeb party.
In 1974, he founded the “B.G.” squad, the core of the Lebanese Forces, which was formed by university students in order to face the Palestinian military danger, reflected at that time by armed barricades, kidnapping and attacks on citizens.
He was killed along with many of his companions in the explosion of the Kataeb headquarters in the Achrafieh sector on September 14, 1982.
www.lebanese-forces.org /bach/biography.htm   (877 words)

  
 Lebanese Phalanx (Lebanon)
This motto, as well as the name of the Kataeb party, The Phalanx (or the Falange), has been misunderstood and has greatly harmed the image of the party, especially in Europe where the memory of Italian and Spanish fascist parties are still very much alive.
In this photo, Pierre Gemayel, founder of the "Phalanges Libanaises" or Kataeb appears to be decorating a military colour with a red streamer.
The flag is fl with a red nettle-leaf-like element (an upside-down, triangular leaf), on its centre a fl Kataeb cedar.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/lb}katae.html   (751 words)

  
 Bachir Gemayel
In 1971, he was appointed inspector in the Kataeb Regular Forces, which was the para-military branch of the Kataeb party.
In 1974, he founded the “B.G.” squad, the core of the Lebanese Forces, which was formed by university students in order to face the Palestinian military danger, reflected at that time by armed barricades, kidnapping and attacks on citizens.
He was killed along with many of his companions in the explosion of the Kataeb headquarters in the Achrafieh sector on September 14, 1982.
www.angelfire.com /oz/lbcedar/bachirtime.html   (879 words)

  
 Fakhamat Al Malak
The Lebanese Kataeb Party-also known as Phalanges Party- was founded in 1936 and led by Sheik Pierre Gemayel now available on DVD.
The Kataeb struggled and plaed a major role in the Lebanses Independence war: During 1958 revolution, the Kataeb offered support and backed-up Camille Chamoun.
And under Fouad Chehab’s presidency, the party formed a triple alliance along with the NLP and the Nationalists.
www.reachmediatv.com /kataeb.htm   (322 words)

  
 Fouad Abou Nader
* In 1970, he joined the Kataeb party and in 1974 took the oath as a Kataeb member.
At that time the Kataeb party stood with the army against the Palestinians.
* In 1971, he was appointed inspector in the Kataeb Regular Forces, which was the para-military branch of the Kataeb party.
www.lebanese-forces.org /lf/leaders/fouad.htm   (240 words)

  
 On Bashir and the Kataeb .. at The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog
The Kataeb were not forged in a facist way and were not inspired from Franco as some say.
When Sheikh Pierre came to Lebanon after being exiled in Egypt, they start the Phalanges as a youth party that was interested in sports, and it was inspired from the Sokols, and indeed they kept working as a non-political entity for a quite a while before declaring the Phalanges a party.
As for Franco and Sheikh Pierre’s visit to Nazi Germany, he was impressed more by the organizational structure of those regimes, rather than the fascist ideology, and Kataeb’s original ideology, even though there was not really one, was closer to secularism than fascism.
www.ouwet.com /n10452/critiques/on-bashir-and-the-kataeb   (293 words)

  
 Chapter 12
He was a fervent and loyal supporter of the Kataeb Party.
Lebanon’s Interior Minister Michel Murr, the concealed godfather of the insurrection, was a Christian who vowed hatred for the Gemayel's and the Kataeb Party.
Radio Voice of Lebanon and Al Amal newspapers organs of the Kataeb Party were seized.
www.aceviper.net /members/cobra/12.html   (1413 words)

  
 Nassrallah Seen Near U.S. Border | The Beirut Spring, a Lebanese Blog
Conservative blogs have highlighted a comment made by Emile Nabbout, president of the Windsor branch of Kataeb (they have a branch in Windsor??) in which he said: “Arabic writing which appears on the right side of the billboard does not match the English translation.” Mr.
Hey idiots, Hezbo and Kataeb is the reason you left Lebanon in the first place.
The Kataeb group in Windsor did the right thing, Emile you are hero in eye of many people in the world, you should be proud you raised this issue to defend lebanon.
beirutspring.com /blog/2007/08/13/nassrallah-seen-near-us-border   (1023 words)

  
 Lebanon yellow pages of Kataeb Kataeb Kataeb Party
Christian Falangist Party of America The C.F.P.A. is the first Falangist Party in America and is dedicated to fighting the "Forces of Darkness" which seeks to destroy Western Christian Civilization.
Kataeb is a social democratic party founded in 1936 as a national mouvement to secure lebanon's independence and to advance the social rights of the lebanese.
Kataeb Reformist Movement Kataeb is a social democratic party founded in 1936 as a national mouvement to secure lebanon's independence and to advance the social rights of the lebanese.
www.lebanonyellow.com /Kataeb_lebanon_154.htm   (352 words)

  
 Bashir Gemayel 7th president of the RepublicFounder of the Lebanese ForcesBashir Gemayel 1947
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.
It was later discovered that two members of the National Syrian Socialist Party one of whom was related to the owners of the building in which the Ashrafieh Kataeb offices were located, were the instigators of the bombing and that Syria was behind the assassination.
www.clhrf.com /bachir03/bachir.history6.9.03.htm   (1450 words)

  
 Lebanese Forces : Bachir Gemayel Biography: The Timeline
In 1971, he was appointed inspector in the Kataeb Regular Forces, which was the para-military branch of the Kataeb party.
In 1973, he was appointed vice-president of the Kataeb Achrafieh sector.
In 1976, he was appointed vice-president of the Kataeb Military Council, then, president of the Military Council following the death of William Hawi in the Tal el-Zaater battle.
www.lebaneseforces.com /bachirbiography.asp   (896 words)

  
 bashir
He was the second and youngest child of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Phalange Party (Kataeb) in Lebanon.
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.
No, because his torch of hope and freedom is still being carried by the members of the Kataeb (Phalange Party) and the Lebanese Forces Party, who have made a solemn oath never to give up the struggle until Lebanon is united, free and independent.
www.angelfire.com /nc/falange/bashir.htm   (446 words)

  
 Ibn Bint Jbeil: The New Kataeb Tree
I've always been fascinated with the modernesque simplicity of political symbols/logos, which serve the purpose of rounding up the masses, especially logos that are extremely simple and abstract, such as the Kataeb (Lebanese Phalanges Party) tree, for example.
whereas in truth, syria saved the kataeb, since the kataeb invited syria into lebanon, albeit under the guise of the lebanese government at the time, which hung like an old yoyo from the back pocket of the kataeb in those days.
whatever the actual official statement about the hierarchical symbolism of the kataeb tree, i don't believe it; and neither should you.
ibnbintjbeil.blogspot.com /2007/08/new-kataeb-tree.html   (502 words)

  
 Global Politician
Amine Gemayel was the President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988, after his brother, Bashir, was assassinated by extremists unhappy with his moderate stances towards the West and Lebanon’s southern neighbour, Israel.
President Gemayel: The Kataeb Party is a victim of Syrian hegemony.
Historically, the Kataeb was the main supporter and the main defender of the sovereignty of the country.
globalpolitician.com /articledes.asp?ID=934&cid=2&sid=5   (1175 words)

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