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  • noun A member of the Phalange
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Phalange

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Examples

  • Comments on the group's page - “We Want a Movie about Syria's WAR on Lebanon” - also criticise Israeli filmmakers for portraying the Phalangist militia as the villains while sanitising the IDF's actions and ignoring the atrocities committed against their own communities:

    Global Voices in English » Lebanon: Lebanese Bloggers React to Israeli film “Lebanon” 2009

  • For is there a more unreasonable, disproportionate and Phalangist section of society than Scottish football supporters and their agents provocateurs in the football press?

    Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011

  • Of course, the folks who carried out the actual massacre were Lebanese Phalangist Christians who were getting even for the assassination of their leader, supposedly by Palestinian terrorists.

    Matthew Yglesias » All Presidents Engage With Tyrants 2010

  • It is clear that in the context of Phalangist or Nazi occupation, a strategy of indifference would be rather difficult.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Young daughter of Phalangist leader, I. Paschaloudis, in Xanthi

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • On September 16, 1982, the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia, with a go-ahead from the Israeli defense forces, entered the camps looking for some Palestinian fighters who were believed to have been hiding among the refugees.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • The Christian forces would be unified by Phalangist military commander Bashir Gemayel and rebranded the “Lebanese Forces.”

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • On September 16, 1982, the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia, with a go-ahead from the Israeli defense forces, entered the camps looking for some Palestinian fighters who were believed to have been hiding among the refugees.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Folman also depicts the IDF encircling the refugee camp, controlling all entrances and exists and providing cover and logistical support for the Phalangist militia that was given free reign to "clean out terrorist nests".

    Wajahat Ali: Israel's Waltz with Injustice 2009

  • Throughout the movie, which is a striking collection of original interviews, flashbacks, dreams and war vignettes, Folman attempts to recollect his blocked memory of the fateful night of 15 September when nearly 2,000 innocent Palestinian refugees were brutally massacred in Lebanon by enraged Lebanese Christian Phalangist forces seeking revenge for their assassinated president, Bashir Gemayel.

    Wajahat Ali: Israel's Waltz with Injustice 2009

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