The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology.
leader Amin Gemayel on Sunday accused the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
of obstructing the functioning of state institutions, noting that the opposition March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
camp was only interested in seeing the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Leb being funded by Premier
Najib Miqati's government.In an interview with Al-Jadeed television, Gemayel warned that "we don't have time to enter a power impasse because the international community, the (U.N.) Security Council and the (Special) Tribunal (for Leb) will not wait for us."
"I don't believe that there is a tribunal as upright and credible as the STL, and it is highly unlikely that the court is politicized, as it comprises judges who hail from all the countries and the trials are being held in public," he added.
Separately, Gemayel also stressed that "the approach of resistance has fallen."
"The Resistance's weapons destroyed the country in 2006, so how can we describe that as a victory? We labeled everything that took place before 2000 as an occupation and appreciated Hizbullah's brave stance, but after that years several U.N. resolutions were issued, such as (Security Council Resolution) 1701, and the resistance became useless and approach of resistance ended."
"Resistance against whom? The UNIFIL (United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Interim Force in Leb)? We have transited from the approach of resistance to the approach of defense, and the approach of defense should be entrusted to the Lebanese army, not to Hizbullah," Gemayel added.