Where Bashir Gemayel appears
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…truck me as an exercise in self-delusion. There was also the matter of Arik’s vision of a “new” Lebanon under Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. Unlike the other generals in the kirya, I’d never actually met any of our “Lebanese Christian allies...
…nit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon’s capital city, they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. I remember a mix of feelings at the time. Partly, amazement that through sheer determination and pol...
on, not just that question but the whole new political edifice Arik had envisaged in launching the invasion, became suddenly, irretrievably, irrelevant. I was at my desk on the third floor of the kirya, getting ready to go home, when the ne...
…ther one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed, there was a confident feeling among Arik an...
…arket crash. Lebanon, however, was the main issue, and it remained a running political sore. The assassinated Bashir Gemayel’s brother, Amin Gemayel, had become president. But Israel still had large numbers of troops there. And while most o...
Bashir Gemayel. I felt all that would be
, nine days before his scheduled inauguration, not just that question but the whole new political edifice Arik had envisaged in launching the invasion, became suddenly, irretrievably, irrelevant. I was at my desk on the third floor of the k...
…ther one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. * * * During the several weeks that followed, there was a confident feeling among A...
d them in. As for an Israeli assault, Begin’s ministers weren’t ready to sign off on it, and the Americans let it be know, repeatedly, that they were vehemently opposed to the idea. Arik again turned to a fallback plan. He knew that Begin d...
…he Syrians would be free simply to replace the weaponry we’d destroyed and fight another day. In Arik’s mind, Bashir Gemayel would soon be in a position to fix that. But beyond my skepticism from having met some of his boy officers in Tel A...
stian allies”. Yet a few weeks after taking up my new post, I was invited to a lunchtime discussion with a group of Phalangist officers on a training course in Israel. I emerged both unsettled and underwhelmed. They were obviously political...
…the unchallenged control of the most prominent of the younger generation of Christian Phalangist politicians, Bashir Gemayel. I felt all that would be challenging enough. But in Arik’s eyes, this was only part of a complete reordering of ou...
I also believed that government ministers had to know what they were deciding. The more we geared up for an invasion, the less certain I became that Begin’s cabinet understood what we were planning to do. Arik’s original plan was codenamed...
Bashir Gemayel would soon be in a position to fix that. But
they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists.
…ther one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed, there was a confident feeling among Arik an...
