Lebanon: Failed Narco-Terrorist State?
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Assyria and the United Arab Republic
In the late summer of 19 57, syria was war about president camil shamon's desire to use the eisenhauer doctrine. Many sunnes and shia moslems in lebanon felt more affinity with nasar and his carismatic calls for resistance against israel. And so they really wanted to get out of the hegemany of the christian maronites who were sympathetic to the west. They wanted to unite with the u a r, with the united arab republic. So this is the civil war of 19 58. Less known than the one that broke out in 75, but extremely important to the history of lebanon.
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