Thread by @Rulaelhalabi

#Lebanon
#AWarThatNeverReallyEnded
Today 13Apr, marks 48 years since the start of the Lebanese civil war that took place from 1975 to 1990
A devastating war that was both an internal Lebanese affair and a regional conflict involving a host of regional and international actors
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The spark that ignited the war April 13, 1975, was when a right‐wing Lebanese party opened fire in Ain el-Remmaneh on a bus filled with Palestinian while they were on their way to a refugee camp in Lebanon killing 22 Palestinians.
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The attack escalated an intermittent cycle of violence into a more general battle between the Phalangists and the The Lebanese National Movement (LNM), a coalition of Lebanese leftists and Muslims supporting the PLO’s cause.
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The conflicts was divided into five main periods:
The 2-years war from April 1975 to November 1976;
The long interlude of failed peace attempts, Israeli and Syrian intervention and a host of internal conflicts between November 1976 and June 1982;
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The Israeli invasion and its immediate aftermath from June 1982 to February 1984;
The internal wars of the late 1980s;
The intra-Christian wars of 1988-90, which led to the end of the war.
During the 15 years of fighting, around 90,000 people lost their lives.
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The Civil War [1975–1990] was a multifaceted armed conflict in Lebanon which included various armed groups with Maronite Christian, Sunni Muslim, Shia Muslim and Druze affiliations, as well as external parties such as Syria, Israel and other countries
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The Ta’if Accord ended the war in 1989 but failed to resolve the core conflicts of the war, including the sectarian division of power in Lebanon, the Palestinian refugee issue, the presence of Syrian forces on Lebanese soil and Syrian tutelage, and Hizbollah’s status
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The historiographic question is;
Did Lebanon develop a viable system of consociationalism after the civil war?
Did Lebanon enjoy few years of Peace or the Illusion of Peace?
#LebaneseCivilWar
#TheWarOfOthers
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