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| | Pierre Gemayel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalange Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bashir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected President of the Republic in his lifetime. |
 | | Gemayel was known for his opposition to foreign domination of Lebanon, whether by the Ottomans, France, or any other power, for his belief in the coexistence of Christians and Moslems in a single state, and for his abhorrence of Lebanon being used as a proxy battleground in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
 | | In the 1970s, the Kataeb was to build a private army, which came to be commanded by Gemayel's son Bashir, to oppose the armed Palestinian presence in Lebanon. |
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