The Australian newspaper quoted someone related to a Lebanese gang stating that " they will get him ", but Fenech does not believe that the violent events are related.

According to the Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, most Lebanese had never heard or read about the Farms, even in their national school curricula.

A 2004 op-ed article in the Daily Princetonian, the student newspaper at Princeton University, suggested that the name was possibly coined at Bucknell or Lehigh University around the time of the Lebanese Civil War, Beirut being the capital of Lebanon and scene of much fighting.

" Charles Glass believes that the quotation was likely a fabrication, citing other published accounts of Nasrallah's speech that had no reference to the anti-Semitic comment, and statements by the editor-in-chief of the Lebanese newspaper which published the quotes, that questioned both the translation and the " agenda of the translator.

* Jossy Mansur, Aruban newspaper editor of Lebanese descent

In addition, a few of his works were published on Arab websites and publications such as the Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance ( JAMI ) magazine, the Saudi magazine Character, the Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar, among others.

After Wigram died in 1986, he married Hayat Mroue ( daughter of the Lebanese newspaper publisher Kamel Mroue ) with whom he had another son and two daughters.

Samir Kassir's journalistic career began when he was a seventeen year old secondary school student at the Lycée Français de Beyrouth, with unsigned contributions to the Lebanese Communist Party newspaper Al-Nidā.

Atallah writes a daily column in the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and a weekly editorial in the Lebanese daily An-Nahar.

In 1974 he started working for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Safir, which permitted him to return to Lebanon for a longer period.

Between 1993 and 2009 he served as editor of Al-Mulhaq, the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Nahar.

On December 28, 2005 Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar said it had received a statement signed by " The Strugglers for the Unity and Freedom in al-Sham ," the group that claimed responsibility for the death of its former editor Gibran Tueni with a car bomb on December 12.

She returned to Lebanon to work for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar until 1975.

These troops were composed of Lebanese and Syrian enlisted personnel, but were commanded predominantly by French officers ; however, the percentage of Lebanese and Syrian officers in the force gradually increased in size to approximately 90 % of the total number by 1945.

A number of local residents regarded themselves as Lebanese, however.

Chamoun however was not only responding to the revolt of former political bosses, but also to the fact that both Egypt and Syria had taken the opportunity to deploy proxies into the Lebanese conflict.

Critics of the resolution argue however that an attempt from the weak and politically divided Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah would be very difficult and could restart the Lebanese civil war.

The Lebanese government, however, granted political asylum to Kōzō Okamoto because, according to the Lebanese government, he " had participated in resistance operations against Israel and had been tortured in Israeli jails.

In the midst of increasing sectarian strife in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which led to the Lebanese Civil War, however, Lebanon's Armenian community began to close ranks, and in 1972, the Hunchakian Party ran a joint ticket with the Dashnaks.

In the Lebanese context, however, it became ready cover for something more archaic, which was essentially Greek Orthodox particularism.

This, however, is also believed to be a myth fabricated during the Lebanese civil war to encourage eating of za ' atar, as provisions were low at the time and za ' atar was of abundance.

Unless and until the myriad religious and political factions can agree on an alternative electoral system, the controversy is unlikely to be resolved ; however, there is a chance that the new formed parliament could turn the system into a House of Lords and House of Parliament, abolishing the Ta ' ef Accord ; however this seems unlikely, as the Western-backed ruling majority do not see the Doha Accord ( an agreement by past Lebanese rivals to end the 2006 – 2008 crisis ) to be essential or positive, as it is beneficial for the opposition in giving them veto power.

He was, however, elected President for six-year term on 8 May 1976, while the Lebanese Civil War was raging.

The alliance was not to last, however: he took his party out of the alliance in 1969 following the Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese government and the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), which allowed the latter to establish bases in Southern Lebanon from which to launch commando raids against Israel.

A few Palestinians with skills and capital were allowed to reside in cities and live dignified lives ; the majority, however were destitute peasants who could only offer their unskilled work force to the Lebanese economy, were kept in squalid refugee camps near the main cities.

By mid-1976, however, the Popular Guards ’ ranks had swelled to some 5, 000 men and women, this total comprising 2, 000-2, 500 full-time fighters and 2, 500-3, 000 irregulars, mostly drawn from its youth branch organization, the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth, which was established in early 1970.

" Rød-Larsen described his meetings since 18 August with Lebanese leaders as " encouraging ," and said they were committed to implementing Security Council Resolution 1701, which requires that Israeli troops withdraw from south Lebanon at the same time that Lebanese army troops and a beefed-up U. N. force of 15, 000 troops enter the area.

He was often described in the Lebanese press as al effendi-the gentleman.

McNeely described Israel as a " rogue state " in July 2006, arguing that Israel's military campaign in Lebanon was resulting in collective punishment for the Lebanese people.

Sometimes described as being Muslim versus Christian, the Lebanese Civil War was actually a multifaceted conflict in which there was nearly as much intraconfessional violence as there was violence between Muslims and Christians.

During a televised address at the conference, he famously sobbed as he described the suffering of the Lebanese people.

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

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.

Documents from the 1920s and 1930s indicate that some local inhabitants regarded themselves as part of Lebanon, but after the French mandate ended in 1946, the land was administered by Syria, and represented as such in all maps of the time, including 1949 Armistice Agreement maps and Syrian and Lebanese military maps.

Lebanese officials point to land deeds, stamped by the Lebanese government, that were held by a number of area residents in the 1940s and 1950s.

" Moreover, it is quite common for Lebanese to own land in Syria, and vice versa and it is also common for many people of a country to not know the name of one region.

The area also witnessed an increase in the price of land from an average of seven to nine Lebanese pounds per square meter between 1950 and 1960 to an average of 25 to 35 Lebanese pounds in 1965.

* 1991-He became defence attaché ( land, sea and air forces ) at the Lebanese Embassy in Paris.

The Lebanese government, which at the time was under French Mandate, partitioned the land in Achrafieh to build roads and highways, forcing these families to eventually sell large parts of their land.

The plan they came up with was to land from navy ships on the Lebanese coast and infiltrate into Lebanon disguised as tourists, with some of the commandos to be disguised as women ( Barak was disguised as a brunette woman ).

In regard to Hezbollah, the Siniora cabinet's official stance in the Pre-Doha Government was that " The government considers the resistance a natural and honest expression of the Lebanese people ’ s national rights to liberate their land and defend their honour against Israeli aggression and threats ".