Chamoun was a supporter of the nationalist Christian cause at heart, however, and he soon returned to the cause to which he, like his father, had dedicated his life.

By the following year, however, he had seriously fallen out with Chamoun over the latter's refusal to sever diplomatic relations with the western powers that had attacked Egypt in the 1956 Suez Crisis of 1956.

The primary components of the Christian front were the Maronite Phalangists loyal to Bachir Gemayel and the Tigers Militia — which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former President Camille Chamoun.

A Muslim rebellion that was allegedly supplied with arms by the UAR through Syria caused President Chamoun to complain to the United Nations Security Council.

The goal of the operation was to bolster the pro-Western Lebanese government of President Camille Chamoun against internal opposition and threats from Syria and Egypt.

Camille Nimr Chamoun ( Arabic: كميل نمر شمعون, Kamīl Sham ' ūn ) ( April 3, 1900 – August 7, 1987 ) was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 ).

Chamoun asked for assistance proclaiming that communism was going to overthrow his government.

In that year, President Chamoun was unable to convince the Christian army commander, Fuad Chehab to use the armed forces against Muslim demonstrators, fearing that getting involved in internal politics would split his small and weak multi-confessional force.

Dany Chamoun () ( 26 August 1934 – 21 October 1990 ) was a prominent Lebanese politician.

A Maronite Christian and the younger son of former President Camille Chamoun, Dany Chamoun was also a politician in his own right, and was known for his opposition to the occupation of Lebanese territory by foreign forces, whether Syrian or Israeli.

Dany Chamoun was born in Deir el-Qamar on 26 August 1934.

Many suspect that Geagea was imprisoned in an attempt to suppress the Christian's role in Lebanon ; Syria is widely accused of murdering Chamoun in an attempt to further divide the already shattered Christian community.

The game was played at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium.

Four days later, Camille Chamoun was elected to succeed El Khoury.

Widely trusted by the Muslims for his impartiality, and now supported by the Americans, Chehab was chosen as the consensus candidate to succeed Chamoun as President to restore peace to the country.

He also fell out with Khoury's successor, Camille Chamoun, when the latter hinted at a possible constitutional change to extend his six-year term which was due to expire in 1958.

He was first appointed Prime Minister by President Camille Chamoun on 19 September 1955.

Lahad was a Lebanese Army Major General reserve officer who was close to Maronite Christian Camille Chamoun.

It was not until the Civil War of 1958, that Gemayel emerged as a leader of the far right-wing separatist ( mainly Christian ) movement that opposed a Nasserist and Arab-nationalist inspired attempt to overthrow the government of president Camille Chamoun and supported the return of foreign troops to Lebanon.

After Saadeh was executed and its high-ranking leaders were arrested, the party remained underground until 1958 when it sided with then-president Camille Chamoun against the Arab nationalist rebels.

Dory Chamoun has faced a number of personal tragedies in life, including the assassination not only of his brother Dany, but also of his youngest son.

In 1968, the party joined the Helf Alliance formed with the two other big mainly Christian parties in Lebanon: the National Liberal Party of former President Camille Chamoun, and National Bloc of Raymond Eddé, and won 9 seats ( of 99 ) in the parliamentary elections held that year, making it one of the largest groupings in Lebanon's notoriously fractured political system.

That event involved a specific issue: the attempt of former President Camille Chamoun ( also head of the Maronite-oriented National Liberal Party ) to monopolize fishing along the coast of Lebanon.

* Dany Chamoun-the late Lebanese politician, and son of former president Camille Chamoun

Amine Gemayel opposed Dany Chamoun for the presidential elections, a man known for his strong anti-Syrian views, and the son of former president Camille Chamoun, or General Michel Aoun, the commander of the army.

Parliamentary elections in 1968 revealed an increasing polarization in the country, with two major coalitions, one pro-Arab Nationalism, led by Rashid Karami and the other pro-Western, led jointly by former President Camille Chamoun, Pierre Gemayel, and Raymond Eddé, both made major gains and won 30 of the 99 seats each.

In 1976, he joined other mainly Christian leaders, including former president Camille Chamoun, the diplomat Charles Malik, and the Guardians of the Cedars leader Étienne Saqr, to oppose the Syrians.

President Camille Chamoun had attempted to break the stranglehold on Lebanese politics exercised by traditional political families in Lebanon.

Although he succeeded in sponsoring alternative political candidates to enter the elections in 1957, causing the traditional families to lose their positions, these families then embarked upon a war with Chamoun, referred to as the War of the Pashas.

* Tracy Chamoun ( born 1962 ), Lebanese-Australian author and political activist, daughter of Dany Chamoun

The National Liberal Party ( NLP,, literally Ḥizb Al-Waṭaniyyīn Al-Aḥrār ) is a center-right political party in Lebanon, established by President Camille Chamoun in 1958.

Nevertheless, with the death of Camille Chamoun in 1987 and the assassination of his successor and son Dany in 1990, combined with the rise of the Lebanese Forces as political party, it seems that the NLP's political influence has considerably declined comparing to the 1960s and 1970s.

Tracy Chamoun ( born 1962 ) is a Lebanese-Australian author and political activist.

* Chamoun, also Shimun

Dory Chamoun () ( born 1931 ) is a Lebanese politician who leads the National Liberal Party, and is also a prominent member of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a coalition of politicians, academics, and businessmen who oppose the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance and Syrian influence in Lebanon.

On 27 January 2006 Dory Chamoun announced his candidacy for the vacated Maronite seat in Lebanon's Baabda-Aley by-election alongside reporter May Chidiac who was also running for the same post.

Murphy played a significant role in convincing both sides of the conflict to reach a compromise by electing moderate Christian general Fuad Chehab while President Chamoun would continue in power till the end of his term on 22 Sept.

Chamoun and Aoun were both unacceptable to Syria and to Muslim politicians in Lebanon.

Prior to the attack, Camille Chamoun decided to disarm the militia in order to avoid further bloodshed from both the Phalangists and the Tigers.

Jumblatt supported Egypt against an attack by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom in the Suez War of 1956, while Chamoun and parts of the Maronite Christian elite in Lebanon tacitly supported the invasion.

Tensions with Egypt had escalated earlier in 1956 when pro-western President Camille Chamoun, a Christian, did not break diplomatic relations with the Western powers that attacked Egypt during the Suez Crisis, angering Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In previous years, tensions with Egypt had escalated in 1956 when the non-aligned President, Camille Chamoun, did not break off diplomatic relations with the Western powers that attacked Egypt during the Suez Crisis, angering Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

: The British presence in Egypt and Iraq had been eliminated ; the Baghdad Pact had been defeated ; Jordan's British chief of staff, Sir John Bagot Glubb, had been dismissed ; Lebanon's pro-Western president, Camille Chamoun, had been replaced by the independent Fu ' ad Shihab ; and the Algerians, sacrificing a million dead in a heroic struggle, had triumphed over French colonial power.

He again opposed Chamoun in the 1958 Lebanon Crisis, a Nasserist uprising with considerable support in the Muslim community which erupted in May 1958 and attempted to topple the government and join Egypt and Syria in the new United Arab Republic.