Syrian Social Nationalist Party الحزب السوري القومي الإجتماعي Parti social nationaliste syrien | |
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Abbreviation | SSNP-L |
General Secretary | Rabi Banat |
Founder | Antun Saadeh |
Founded | 1932 |
Headquarters | Beirut |
Newspaper | Al Binaa |
Ideology | |
Political position | Syncretic[a] |
National affiliation | March 8 Alliance |
Syrian counterpart | Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
Colours | Black, red and white |
Parliament of Lebanon | 0 / 128 |
Cabinet of Lebanon | 1 / 30 |
Party flag | |
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Website | |
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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP-L)[b] is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Lebanon. The Lebanese section of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party advocates subsuming Lebanon into a Greater Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent.[18]
Founded in Beirut in 1932 as a national liberation organization hostile to French colonialism, the party played a significant role in Lebanese politics and was involved in attempted coup d'etats in 1949 and 1961 following which it was thoroughly repressed. It was active in the Lebanese Civil War, particularly in clashes with the right-wing Lebanese Front, resistance against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and in the South Lebanon conflict from 1985 to 2000 while also continuously supporting the Syrian occupation in Lebanon.
[The SSNP] greet their leaders with a Hitlerian salute; sing their Arabic anthem, "Greetings to You, Syria," to the strains of "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"; and throng to the symbol of the red hurricane, a swastika in circular motion.
The SSNP flag, which features a curved swastika called the red hurricane (zawba'a), points to the party's fascistic origins.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).It survived and made itself useful during Syria's occupation of Lebanon by relying on its militia, unique ideology, and adopting a politically pragmatic approach that brought the SSNP from the right side of the political spectrum to its current place in the camp of the left.
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