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Written by General Editor
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Amin Gemayel
A wartime president (1982-88), Amin Gemayel was seen as a more unifying figure than his brother Bashir, assassinated president-elect and leader of the right-wing pro-Israeli Christian Phalange movement.
But his powers to govern were severely circumscribed by the Israeli and Syrian occupation of most of his country.
He arrived back in Lebanon in 2000 after 12 years of self-imposed exile, to join the opposition to President Lahoud's pro-Syrian government. But he was expelled from the Phalange, which takes a more moderate view towards the Syrians now than in the past.
Gemayel hit the headlines in March 2003, when he launched a doomed eleventh-hour attempt to mediate a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis.
He is now a member of the Qornet Shehwan group of Christian politicians dedicated to bringing about a withdrawal of Syrian forces
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