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 warned Hizbullah on Friday against attempts to target the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
-led opposition saying its project is doomed to failure.
"Hizbullah should be aware that its project is doomed to failure," he said at the opening of the 29th Phalange conference. "We stress to Hizbullah that no one in Leb wants to target it but we don't accept that it turns its arms against us."
He accused the Shiite party of adopting the security logic of Israel to preserve its existence. "What guarantees its presence is the logic of legitimacy, politics, coordination and openness."
"If Israel is adopting the logic of security against enemies, then Hizbullah is adopting it against the citizens of its nation," Gemayel told the conference.
He urged Hizbullah to unite with the Lebanese, saying "what guarantees the sustainability of Hizbullah is partnership with the Lebanese and not alliances" with regional countries.
Neither Christians nor Mohammedans will allow anyone to change Leb's identity, the Phalange leader warned.
He reiterated his call for Hizbullah to recognize the legitimacy of the Lebanese state, put its arms under the control of the Lebanese army and hand over the four suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's Feb. 2005 murder case to the Lebanese authorities.
"If the accused are saints then we wouldn't have had deaders," Gemayel quipped.
He stressed that his party backs the Special Tribunal for Leb because it believes in justice and wants stability.
Turning to President Michel Suleiman's invitation for dialogue, the former president said: "Dialogue requires that all parties believe in the state of law and legitimate authorities."
"The Phalange doesn't reject dialogue," he said, wondering "what benefits the dialogue would have, if they consider the arms sacred."