By Mordechai Nisan
This paintings is a mixture of an account of a so much attractive Lebanese character with a penetrating research of the old and non secular contours of Lebanon. Mordechai Nisan spent a lot time with Etienne Sakr among 2000 and 2001. Set in the context of the nationwide political narrative of Lebanon, this quantity deals a portrait of Sakr and the days within which he lived prior to his exile to Israel in may perhaps 2000. own tales from Lebanese citizens and conversations with others open air of Lebanon who knew Abu-Arz, as well as interviews with Israelis aquainted with him, give you the authenticity to the portrait of this amazing guy.
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In Beirut, the Christians feared an Israeli defeat and were relieved it never came. At the same time, Maronites in particular were hoping that the Israeli army, which ended up capturing Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian territories, would seize Lebanon and subsequently extricate the Christians from Syria’s persistent intervention in Lebanese affairs, especially security matters. 3 The days thereafter were hardly comforting or quiet in Lebanon. The PLO felt its status rise in the aftermath of the military defeat suffered by the Arab states in the June War.
Like the Communists, Nasserites and the SSNP—but unlike the Maronite Christian parties noted above—the Guardians delineated in detailed programmatic fashion the ideas that would guide action. The party was an intellectual endeavor before it was a political enterprise. It sought not personal gain or power as such, but the actualization of a complete vision of Lebanon based on noble ideals. It wanted to move and energize people by teaching and evoking deep, passionate feelings for sacred Lebanon.
RELIGION, HOMELAND, NATIONHOOD The Guardians of the Cedars Party-National Lebanese Movement led by Etienne Sakr was born on the day the war began on 13 April 1975. This political prise de conscience (awakening) resulted from the incubation of ideological, spiritual and 26 THE FOUNDING AND IDEOLOGY OF HERRAAS AL-ARZ educational principles that had reached fruition and maturity. Like the Communists, Nasserites and the SSNP—but unlike the Maronite Christian parties noted above—the Guardians delineated in detailed programmatic fashion the ideas that would guide action.