POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Bickerton and Klausner: Camp David Accords, Ariel Sharon, Israeli Settlement
23 Jul 2018
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Lebanon, and the boundaries of both countries were drawn in such a way as to facilitate french economic and political control, particularly through a kind of deliberate balkanization of the territory and divide-and- rule policies between christians and muslims. In lebanon, the french also perpetuated and enshrined the power-sharing formulas among the various religious groups that had begun in the ottoman period and that recognized the predominantly christian character of lebanon. In general, the french favoured, worked through, and recognized the pre-eminence of the maronite. Christians, namely catholics who had accepted the authority of the pope at rome since the middle ages. Sunni prime minister, and a shiite speaker of the parliament. It was further agreed that in the parliament there would be six christians for every five muslims, reflecting the claim, based on the 1932 census, that the christians were still the numerically superior group in the population.
