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Lebanese and Moslem
After the MNF bombing, the New York Times reported that " Lebanese police sources, Western intelligence sources, Israeli Government sources and leading Shi ' ite Moslem religious leaders in Beirut are all convinced that there is no such thing as Islamic Jihad ," as an organization, no membership, no writings, etc.
The earliest sense of a modern Lebanese identity is to be found in the writings of historians in the early nineteenth century, when, under the emirate of the Shihabs, a Lebanese identity emerged, " separate and distinct from the rest of Syria, bringing the Maronites and Druzes, along with its other Christian and Moslem sects, under one government.

Lebanese and told
Several Iraqi leaders, Lebanese arms merchant Sarkis Soghanalian and others have told that Saddam financed Chirac's party.
" Most Christian Lebanese, anxious to dissociate themselves from Arabism and its Islamic connections, were pleased to be told that their country was the legitimate heir to the Phoenician tradition ," Kamal Salibi observes, instancing Christian writers like Charles Corm ( died 1963 ), writing in French, and Said Aql, who urged the abandonment of literary Arabic, together with its script, and attempted to write in the Lebanese vernacular, using the Roman alphabet.
" He and members of his party also visited Lebanon, where they told the Lebanese prime minister that Hizbullah's resistance to Israel has " lifted the spirit of the Arab people ".

Lebanese and about
Since the end of the war, the Lebanese have conducted several elections, most of the militias have been weakened or disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) have extended central government authority over about two-thirds of the country.
On September 3, 2004, the Lebanese Parliament voted 96-29 to amend the constitution to extend President Émile Lahoud's six-year term ( which was about to expire ) by another three years.
* Lebanon: The Arabic-speaking Lebanese consist at about 95 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities, as well as refugees or asylum seekers.
The song " Qana " was about the Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Qana.
In addition, about 5, 000 Lebanese, 1000 Indians, and 5, 000 Europeans reside in the country.
It is located about 3 to 12 km ( 2 to 7. 5 mi ) southwest of the Lebanese village of Shebaa, and about 5 to 7 km ( 3 to 4 mi ) northwest of the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
According to the Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, most Lebanese had never heard or read about the Farms, even in their national school curricula.
The village was located 26 km northeast of the city of Acre, on a rocky hill about 5 km south of the Lebanese border.
The village was located on the north bank of Wadi Karkara, about 1 km south of the Lebanese border, and with a view to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
: This article is about the Spanish political party: For the Lebanese Phalange, see the Kataeb Party.
In July 1977, Hobeika, then only known under the pseudonym " Chef Edward ", led a massacre against civilians and Palestinian militants in the south Lebanese village Yarin where about 80 people of which probably 20 to 30 were civilians were lined up in front of the school and shot.
Certain groups in the Lebanese National Movement wished to bring about a more secular and democratic order, but as this group increasingly included Islamist groups, encouraged to join by the PLO, the more progressive demands of the initial agenda was dropped by January 1976.
The Israeli occupied sector of the mountain is patrolled by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police, and the Israeli Security Forces maintain a strategic observation post for monitoring Syrian and Lebanese military activity near Mitzpe Shlagim (" Snow Lookout "), which is at an elevation of about 2, 224 m ( 7, 300 ft ).
The U-2s of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing were been used in Operation Cedar Sweep to fly surveillance over Lebanon, relaying information about Hezbollah militants to Lebanese authorities, and in Operation Highland Warrior to fly surveillance over Turkey and northern Iraq to relay information to Turkish authorities.
They have the largest fan club in Lebanon with about 30 % from all the Lebanese supporting them.
The Lebanese Army still operates about 100 M48s.
Ali Atwa ( born about 1960 ) () is a Lebanese national and member of the Islamist organization Hezbollah.
Hasan Izz-Al-Din () ( born about 1963 ) is a Lebanese national wanted by the United States government.
Following Lebanese government claims, the United Nations, driven by the United States, began seeking a peacekeeping force for the area that Israel had occupied in order to bring about a withdrawal of the Israeli forces, and to reintroduce the authority of the Lebanese government in southern Lebanon.
After his term ended, Hrawi expressed his regrets about the extension of his term through the amendment of the Lebanese Constitution to Chibli Mallat.
Linda Hutcheon coined the term " historiographic metafiction " to refer to works that fictionalize actual historical events or figures ; notable examples include The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez ( about Simón Bolívar ), Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes ( about Gustave Flaubert ), Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow ( which features such historical figures as Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Booker T. Washington, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung ), and Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War which makes references to the Lebanese Civil War and various real life political figures.

Lebanese and its
Highway 90 runs north-south on the Israeli side for a total distance of 565 km from Metula on the Lebanese border in the north to its southern terminus at the Egyptian border near the Red Sea port of Eilat.
Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.
Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".
Unlike its uncompromising revolutionary stance in the 1980s, Hezbollah conveyed a lenient stance towards the Lebanese state.
Hezbollah says that its continued hostilities against Israel are justified as reciprocal to Israeli operations against Lebanon and as retaliation for what they claim is Israel's occupation of Lebanese territory.
After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.
Ottoman control was uncontested during the early modern period, but the Lebanese coast became important for its contacts and trades with Venice and other Italian city-states.
Israel defended its actions by informing the Lebanese government that it was responsible for encouraging the PFLP.
The Lebanese Civil War had its origin in the conflicts and political compromises of Lebanon's colonial period and was exacerbated by the nation's changing demographic trends, inter-religious strife, and proximity to Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Israel.
The Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon was criticised by some on Lebanon's right-wing inside and outside of the country, others believed it helped to prevent renewed civil war and discourage Israeli aggression, and others believed its presence and influence was helpful for Lebanese stability and peace but should be scaled back.
The U. S. began applying pressure on Syria to end its occupation and cease interfering with internal Lebanese matters.
In Resolution 425, the UN had set a goal of assisting the Lebanese government in a " return of its effective authority in the area ", which would require an official Lebanese army presence there.
On January 28, 2005, UN Security Council Resolution 1583 called upon the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, including through the deployment of sufficient numbers of Lebanese armed and security forces, to ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it.
The USA charged that Syria exercised pressure against the National Assembly to amend the constitution, and many of the Lebanese rejected it, saying that it was considered as contradictive to the constitution and its principles.
Hezbollah became a part of the Lebanese government following the 2005 elections but is at a crossroads regarding UNSCR 1559's call for its militia to be dismantled.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the Lebanese Government " to extend its control over all its territory, to exert its monopoly on the use of force, and to put an end to all such attacks ".
The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.
The Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ) ( Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya ) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website ( Arabic: الجيش اللبناني or " Armée libanaise " in French, is the military of the Republic of Lebanon.

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