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Bashir’s older brother, Amin Gemayel (b. 1942, Bikfaya), was elected president of Lebanon a week after Bashir died. In contrast to his warlike brother, Amin had shown himself to be conciliatory toward the other religious groups in Lebanon during his 12 years as a member of the Lebanese Parliament (1970–82). He had been trained as a lawyer and had overseen the Phalangist Party’s vast...
in Lebanon: Civil war )...(estimates range from several hundreds to several thousands) of people in the Palestinian refugee camps of Ṣabrā and Shātīlā. The election of Bashir’s brother, Amin Gemayel, to the presidency in late September 1982 failed to temper the mounting violence as battles between the Christians and the Druze broke out in the traditionally Druze territory of the...
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