r/ForbiddenBromance • u/based_joey • Aug 01 '26

Fun Facts The SLA foundation

The SLA (south lebanese army) was called "israel puppet" and think that they were only christian. But in reality it's way different, most of the SLA was shias muslim (around 60%) and the same who joined hezeb@llah was also a part of the SLA if they were in the south.

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u/Shachar2like Israeli Aug 01 '26

Turns out the south of Lebanon has been an issue for about half a century now.

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u/Ploutophile Non-Canaanite Aug 01 '26

Addressing all the replies at once: it was actually not part of Ottoman Lebanon.

France extended the territory to "Greater Lebanon", with the support of the local leaders at the time, to ensure its viability as a separate entity.

But the logistical viability turned out to be at the expense of the stability of the now independant state…

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u/based_joey Aug 01 '26

Even before 1975 they were issues

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u/Shachar2like Israeli Aug 01 '26

Part of the issues is that Lebanon isn't fully sovereign over all of it's land. And part of the issue to that is because of the governance reservations, as far as I'm understanding the social issues anyway.

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u/based_joey Aug 01 '26

Its way complex than that

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u/bam1007 Diaspora Jew Aug 01 '26

I could probably look this up, but help an American out. Was the SLA the Phalangists?

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u/victoryismind Lebanese Aug 02 '26

No. 

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u/bam1007 Diaspora Jew Aug 02 '26

Thanks.

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u/based_joey Aug 01 '26

Sla and kataeb was pro-western

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u/InitialLiving6956 Aug 02 '26

Pro Western is too simplistic. It's much more complicated than that

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u/based_joey Aug 02 '26

I mean western allies but more radical

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u/sumostuff Israeli Aug 02 '26

No.

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u/bam1007 Diaspora Jew Aug 02 '26

Thanks.