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Christians in Lebanon
Sep 21 2009, Marco Villa

In 1936, while attending the Berlin Olympic Games a young Lebanese athlete, Pierre Gemayel, admired the organization and fierce nationalism of the Nazis and founded al-Katiib al-Lubnaynee [the Phalange of Lebanon] in the hopes of bringing fascism to...

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