In the Mykonos trial, the German court found Kazem Darabi, an Iranian who worked as a grocer in Berlin, and Lebanese Abbas Rhayel, guilty of murder and sentenced them to life in prison.

Efforts to alter or abolish the confessional system of allocating power have been at the centre of Lebanese politics for decades.

The Lebanese rail system is not currently in use, with services having ceased due to the country's political difficulties.

He began to believe that change through the Lebanese political system was impossible.

Demanding a new Lebanese order based on secularism, socialism, Arabism and an abolition of the sectarian system, Jumblat began gathering disenchanted Sunnis, Shi ' a and leftist Christians into an embryonic national opposition movement.

Jumblatt had organized his own PSP into an armed force, and made it the backbone of the Lebanese National Movement ( LNM ), a coalition of left-wing Lebanese demanding the abolition of the sectarian quota system that permeated Lebanese politics, which discriminated against Muslims.

In August 1975, Jumblatt declared a program for reform of the Lebanese political system, and the LNM openly challenged the government's legitimacy.

The Party played a key role in promoting modern institutions that are still today the pillar of the Lebanese administrative system such as the Civil Service Council, the Central Inspection Board and many other public achievements.

The Kataeb Party calls for an objective assessment of the Lebanese political system ’ s limitations in order to guarantee the required political stability, security and economic prosperity.

Solidarity to the Palestinians was expressed through the Lebanese Sunni Muslims but with the aim to change the political system from one of consensus amongst different sects, towards one where their power share would increase.

While his younger brother Bashir was regarded as a political radical, espousing the expulsion of Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanese soil and a radical overhaul of the political system, and hinting at a possible peace settlement with Israel, Amine Gemayel was considered more moderate.

During the French Mandate and after the independence the parliamentary elections in Syria have been held under a system similar to the Lebanese one, with fixed representation for every religious community, including Druzes, Alawis and Christians.

Harakat al-Mahrumin ( meaning The Movement of the Deprived or the The Movement of the Dispossessed or The Movement of the Disinherited ) was established by Imam Musa al-Sadr and member of parliament Hussein el-Husseini in 1974, as an attempt to reform the Lebanese system, although the beginnings can be traced to 1969 in declarations by the Imam al-Sadr calling upon peace and equality between all Lebanese confessions and religions, so that no one confession would remain " deprived " in any region in Lebanon, noting that the Shia community in Lebanon remained the poorest and most neglected by the Lebanese government.

A unique feature of the Lebanese system is the principle of " confessional distribution ": each religious community has an allotted number of deputies in the Parliament.

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.

* Subdivision name 1 — Romanization system: National Ministry of Defence of the Lebanese Republic 1963

Khoury's most recent novel, Yalo, was controversial as it depicted a former militiaman accused of crimes during the civil war and portrayed the use of torture in the Lebanese judicial system.

Within Liberia itself, the wider implications of the policy are part of a heated debate in which native Liberians themselves have acknowledged that non-African permanent residents are crucial contributors to the country's economic activities and innovation system, mainly the wealthy Lebanese community.

This includes abolishing sectarian appropriation of public jobs, replacing the confessional parliamentary system with a representative system, and permitting the execution of civil marriage on Lebanese soil.

A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

It has been active as a paramilitary organization representing Lebanon's Catholic Maronites since 1936, played a major role in the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1990, perpetrated the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982 and held the presidency of Lebanon from 1982-1988.

Hezbollah, which started with only a small militia, has grown to an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite television-station, and programs for social development.

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Lebanese political analyst, argues that although Zionism has influenced Hezbollah's anti-Judaism, " it is not contingent upon it " because Hezbollah's hatred of Jews is more religiously motivated than politically motivated.

Hezbollah has relied also on funding from the Shi ' ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the Triple Frontier, or tri-border area, along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

The UN has certified Israel's pullout, and regards the Shebaa Farms as occupied Syrian territory, while Lebanon and Syria have stated they regard the area as Lebanese territory.

Eight months after Syria withdrew from Lebanon under intense domestic and international outrage over the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri the UN investigation has yet to be completed.

The Free Patriotic Movement, The Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party, the National Bloc, National Liberal Party, Lebanese Forces and the Guardians of the Cedars ( now outlawed ) each have their own base among Christians and it's controversial as to which group has the largest popularity.

Burgeoning capital inflows have generated foreign payments surpluses, and the Lebanese pound has remained relatively stable.

A recent Russian promise to supply Lebanon with T-90 tanks has been in discussion since the Lebanese Defense Minister's last visit to Russia on December 16, 2008.

The Lebanese Armed Forces has six official military colleges and schools that serve a wide variety of functions from officer training to overseeing national youth conscription programs.

* 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

* Origanum vulgare syriacum (= O. maru, Syrian oregano, Lebanese oregano, za ' atar ) has larger leaves that vary in colors ranging from pale green to grayish.

Slovenia also has peacekeepers with the UN at Naharya Ogl, Israel, on the Lebanese border.

Syrian forces have been accused of involvement in that murder, as well as continued meddling in Lebanese affairs, and an international investigation into the Hariri killing and several subsequent bomb attacks has been launched by the UN.

* November 3 – Iran – Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

" The term has also been used to describe the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, as Syria has been accused of intervening in Lebanese political affairs.

Dakar has a large Lebanese community ( concentrated in the import-export sector ) that dates to the 1920s, a community of Moroccan business people, as well as Mauritanian, Cape Verdean, and Guinean communities.

Modern DNA evidence has provided evidence that most of the world's Jews, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, have a common ancestral lineage in the Levant, which can be traced to a common ancestral population that inhabited the Middle East some four thousand years ago.

Whilst Middle Eastern cooking in particular Lebanese has grown in popularity from its traditional enclaves in London.

PFLP-GC is considered very close to Syria, and has in effect acted as a Syrian proxy force in Lebanon both during the Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 90 ), and after the Syrian occupation of Lebanon after the war.