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November 1969

Wednesday, 26 November 1969

The road to war · From the books

Karami's national unity cabinet gives Kamal Jumblatt the Interior Ministry.
Kamal Jumblatt became interior minister, in charge of carrying out the Cairo Agreement, in the government of national union Rashid Karami formed once the Syrian border reopened, ending a cabinet vacancy of over seven months.

Sources differ: 26 November (Traboulsi, twice) or 25 November (de Clerck & Malsagne).

Other date in the books: Tuesday, 25 November 1969

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February 1975

Wednesday, 26 February 1975

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

Troops fire on Sidon's protesting fishermen; Maarouf Saad is mortally wounded.
Maarouf Saad, the Nasserist deputy leading a Sidon fishermen's march, was shot when the army fired on it and died days later; several others were killed or wounded. The marchers opposed Protein, holder of a deep-sea fishing concession, with Camille Chamoun on its board. That evening armed men killed a soldier.

Sources differ: Hanf places the demonstration in March; the existing entry 10 gives 7 March. Traboulsi and de Clerck and Malsagne give 26 February.

Art and memory
  • film Censored in Lebanon, Le Liban dans la tourmente (1975) was Jocelyne Saab's first war documentary. Filming both a wealthy, carefree bourgeoisie and cheerful children in the Palestinian camps, she asked where the hatred came from.

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May 1975

Monday, 26 May 1975

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The military Cabinet resigned
Islamic and leftist leaders rejected this Cabinet. The Lebanese considered it as a challenge. Karameh presented his candidature to form a new Government, in a climate of terror imposed by militias. Lootings, killings, and kidnappings continued.
What the books addThe National Movement's call for a general strike, supported by the leading Sunni politicians, Mufti Hassan Khaled, Musa al-Sadr and Raymond Edde, brought down the military cabinet on 26 May; on 28 May Frangieh appointed Rashid Karami Prime Minister.

Other date in the books: Wednesday, 28 May 1975

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September 1977

Monday, 26 September 1977

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

Israeli tanks pull back from southern Lebanon.
After a week of clashes in the south, Israel's Christian militia allies held a slightly larger strip, along nearly all the frontier from coast to Hermon, and Israel withdrew the tanks it had sent in.

Sources differ: Original entry 149 dates the ceasefire to 25 September.

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March 1979

Monday, 26 March 1979

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

Egypt and Israel sign a peace treaty; the Lebanese balance shifts.
In Lebanon the Israeli-Egyptian treaty, signed in Washington, had deep effects. The Lebanese Forces strengthened their cooperation with Israel, and Syria moved closer to the PLO, letting it return in 1979 to its earlier positions south of Beirut. For Traboulsi, the peace process undermined the Sarkis regime.

Sources differ: Traboulsi and Picard give the month only; de Clerck and Malsagne give 26 March.

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May 1982

Wednesday, 26 May 1982

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy declared during his visit in Beirut: 'France stays but is not at war with anyone.'

Other date in the books: Monday, 24 May 1982

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July 1982

Monday, 26 July 1982

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

Heavy bombardment of Beirut; Israeli soldiers cut West Beirut's water and power.
During heavy bombing, West Beirut lost its water at 5.50 p.m., when Israeli soldiers shut the valves at the distribution centre's control room, and then its electricity. Ghassan Tueni, Lebanon's ambassador to the UN, sent the Secretary-General a letter of protest.

Sources differ: Fisk dates a first cut of water and power to 5 July (see check of event 574).

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August 1982

Thursday, 26 August 1982

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The Lebanese authorities claimed the withdrawal of the Fedayin from the Bekaa region and the North, while the Italian and French contingents arrived to Beirut.
What the books addMénargues has the Hittin brigade's 1,350 Palestine Liberation Army soldiers driving out to Damascus on 26 August, as Italian Bersaglieri of the San Marco regiment and more French legionnaires came ashore. Robert Fisk dates the first US Marine landing to 25 August; Ménargues to 27 August.

Other date in the books: Wednesday, 25 August 1982

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September 1982

Sunday, 26 September 1982

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The Army occupied the positions evacuated by the Israelis in Beirut.

Other date in the books: Monday, 27 September 1982

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April 1983

Tuesday, 26 April 1983

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The Phalangist militia handed over the alleged assassin of Bechir Gemayel, Habib Chartouni, to the Army.
What the books addMénargues dates the handover to 28 April 1983. Held in an army intelligence cell at the Defence Ministry in Yarze, Chartouni admitted the killing before the military prosecutor that day. The case was later handed by Amine Gemayel's cabinet to a constitutional High Court that had never been created; he was freed on 13 October 1990.

Other date in the books: Thursday, 28 April 1983

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September 1983

Monday, 26 September 1983

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

Prime Minister Chafic Wazzan presented the resignation of his government to the chief of State, who refused it.

Other date in the books: Sunday, 5 February 1984

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October 1983

Wednesday, 26 October 1983

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

Vice-President Bush visits the ruins of the Marine headquarters.
While the Marines were under grenade attack, George Bush toured their bombed base, declaring terror would neither dictate nor change US foreign policy.

Other date in the books: Sunday, 23 October 1983

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February 1984

Sunday, 26 February 1984

The Lebanese war · Added from the books

The evacuation of the US Marines ends.
The withdrawal of the Marines, ordered by the White House and begun on 7 February, was completed. De Clerck and Malsagne's chronology dates the MNF's departure to 26 February-31 March.

Sources differ: The original (739) gives 17 February for the Marines' departure.

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April 1985

Friday, 26 April 1985

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The Islamic-Progressive militias rushed into Christian villages next to Saida. Thousands of families were forced out of their homes. Tens of Christian villages in the Iqlim El Kharroub and East of Saida were looted, vandalized, and burned. The State was more powerless than ever, the Lebanese Army being unable to stop the massacres.
What the books addAbout fifty Christian villages east of Sidon and in the Iqlim al-Kharroub were taken. Estimates of the Christians displaced range from 70,000 (Picard) and 85,000-86,000 (Hanf) to 80,000-125,000 (de Clerck and Malsagne), many reaching East Beirut by sea; few have returned. Hanf writes that the Kharroub villages were razed with Transport Ministry equipment; Fisk describes Mieh Mieh looted and torn down, and a well filled with corpses at Jiyeh after the Druze took it.

Other date in the books: Wednesday, 24 April 1985

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November 1989

Sunday, 26 November 1989

The Lebanese war · 111101 entry in the original chronology

The government created by Selim Hoss gets the Parliament's confidence.
What the books addHanf sees the cabinet as falling short of Taif's national unity government, since Michel Sassine stayed in Paris and Kataeb leader Georges Saadé wavered.

Other date in the books: Friday, 24 November 1989

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August 1991

Monday, 26 August 1991

After the war · From the books

The general amnesty law 84/91 is promulgated.
Law 84/91 pardoned political and state-security offences committed before 28 March 1991, except killings of, or attempts on, religious and political figures and diplomats. Critics called this 'no victor, no vanquished' measure a self-amnesty that kept the warlords in power and hid the truth about the war.

Sources differ: Picard (2002) calls it the Amnesty Law of March 1991, probably from its March 1991 cut-off; de Clerck and Abou Zaki give 26 August 1991.

Art and memory
  • film The state censor banned Randa Chahal Sabbag's Civilisées (1999), a savage comedy about 'the war of the Lebanese'.
  • film Only one Lebanese paper wrote about Harb Lubnan, Omar Issawi's fifteen-part al-Jazeera history, yet it became the region's most widely seen account of the war.

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October 2000

Thursday, 26 October 2000

After the war · From the books

Rafiq Hariri forms a new thirty-member cabinet.
Hariri regained the premiership after the 2000 elections, but the hopes that had greeted him in 1992 were gone.

Sources differ: September 2000 (Quéméner) against October (Picard, Abirached).

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July 2005

Tuesday, 26 July 2005

Since 2005 · From the books

Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces, is freed after eleven years in prison.
Released under an amnesty, the former militia leader officially re-founded the Lebanese Forces as a party; his wife told reporters the civil war was over.

Sources differ: 26 July (Abirached) and 'end of July' (Khayat) against 'June 2005' (de Clerck & Malsagne, p. 451-452). Haugbolle's source for the wife's words is al-Nahar of 18 July 2005, which may refer to the amnesty vote rather than the release.

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July 2006

Wednesday, 26 July 2006

July 2006, as the books tell it · From the books

The Rome conference ends without a ceasefire; Siniora presents his plan.
On 26 July an international conference on Lebanon in Rome, where Siniora presented his seven-point plan, backed a UN-mandated force and pledged urgent work towards a ceasefire without calling for an immediate one. Joseph Bahout saw in it Washington's abandonment of the Lebanese government.

Sources differ: Origin of the plan: shown to Rice in Beirut on 24 July (34 Days; it later calls it 'Siniora's seven-point plan of July 24', pdf:233) against presented in Rome on 26 July (Abirached).

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