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Never forget!The Damour massacre, Islamic alliance of Arab Palestinians and other Muslims attack on the Christians in that Lebanese town, butchered 582 people in the storming of Damour. "They were coming, thousands and thousands, shouting 'Allahu Akbar! (God is great!) Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad" [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] ^ http://www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast002.asp^ http://www.falangist.com/damour.htm^ http://www.ict.org.il/Articles/tabid/66/Articlsid/291/currentpage/4/Default.aspx^ http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/reports/Denial_of_Religious_Rights_by_the_Palestinian_Authority.asp^ http://books.google.com/books?id=6bEwc2FStIYC&pg=PA125^ Becker, Jillian, The PLO: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization, St. Martin's Press, 1984, p. 124

Anti-Maronite Lebanon's Maronites make up the largest Christian community in the country - a community where religion and politics are inextricably mixed. The Maronites, linked culturally and politically to the West, favored teir own continue rule, Lebanese nationalism, and a Western-oriented foreign policy. Sunni Muslims favored Pan-Arabism and were often friendly to Nasir and Syria [source], so was its armed wing the Phalangist's early stance, pro-Western and opposed to Pan-Arabism [source] in the 1970s, the Maronite bloc showed some degree of unity in opposing pan-Arabism, (although recently some have split and allied themselves with Hezbollah and became anti-American) [source]. Any...