Sunday, September 16, 2012

The birth of Lebanese communist resistance against Israel

I take issue with the prevalent accounts of the birth of the Lebanese National (communist) Resistance against Israeli occupation.  The narratives were basically drawn from the biased accounts of George Hawi (leader of the then Stalinist Lebanese Communist Party).  I wrote about this in Arabic but suffice to say that the real birth was in the spring of 1978 after the "first" Israeli invasion and not in September of 1982.  It is important because the account mentions the role of the Lebanese Communist Party and the Communist Action Organization but says nothing about the pioneering and founding role of the Socialist Arab Action Party-Lebanon.