The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phalangist \Pha*lan"gist\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist ( Phalangista vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.
Usage examples of "phalangist".
The Israeli stories revolved around speculation that the Phalangist militia leader, Bashir Gemayel, had struck a deal with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin to mount a joint effort to drive the PLO and the Syrians out of Lebanon forever.
The next morning, Palestinian guerrillas backed by Muslim militiamen fought pitched battles in the streets of Beirut with Christians from the Phalangist and Tigers militias.
I decided that no matter what time it was, I was going to go down to the Phalangist headquarters in Beirut and get an explanation.
Fuad Abu Nader, one of the Phalangist commanders, was waiting for me with some of his men.
He said that there had been afight that day between some of his men and some Druse, and that some Druse were killed trying to attack a Phalangist position in the Shouf, and the dead were left in the battlefield.
The truth is, the Western press coddled the PLO and never judged it with anywhere near the scrutiny that it judged Israeli, Phalangist, or American behavior.
Since Israelis mythologized the nature of Lebanon, they also mythologized Bashir Gemayel and his Maronite Phalangist militia, with which they teamed up to fight the PLO in the summer of 1982.
Whenever senior Phalangist officials used to talk about the Palestinians, they did so in the most blood-curdling terms, which prompted Israeli leaders to believe that the Phalangists hated the PLO even more than they did.
With some 14,000 PLO and Syrianfighting men having been evacuated from Beirut, the Lebanese Muslims were more or less disarmed and exposed to the dictates of the Phalangist militia and their Israeli backers.
I suspect this information was given to him by Phalangist intelligence.
He had gone as far as the Kuwaiti embassy traffic circle, which overlooked Shatila from the west, and found a group of Phalangist militiamen relaxing, being fed and provided for by a group of Israeli soldiers.
It was pretty clear to me that whatever was happening, the Phalangists were going to be in charge of this area when it was all over, so I asked this Phalangist officer what they were going to do with Sabra and Shatila.
From Thursday, September 16, until Saturday morning, September 18, Phalangist squads combed through the Sabra and Shatila neighborhoods, liquidating whatever humanity came in their path.
It was clear what had happened: she must have been holding up her identity card to a Phalangist, trying to tell him that she was a Lebanese Muslim, not a Palestinian, when he emptied his bullet clip into her chest.
Two Percent, because he and his Phalangist loyalists seemed to have theirfingers in every major business deal in East Beirut.