What's the difference between falangist and phalangist?
Falangist
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Phalangist
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(n.) Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.
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(1) For the next three days, Phalangist Christians took revenge, under Israeli eyes, by killing between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.
(2) It was during this period he was found by the Kahan commission – investigating the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, when Israeli forces allowed Christian Phalangist militiamen into two refugee camps in Beirut to slaughter hundreds of Palestinian refugees – to have been personally negligent in the killings "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge [and] not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed".
(3) Moreover, suggest many academics, the duo ultimately intended to help rightwing Christian Phalangists crush Muslim rivals, and to establish a pro-Israeli satrapy over all of Lebanon.
(4) Though the Phalangist pogrom of defenceless refugees in the camps of Sabra and Shatila followed his exile, these were not his personally bleakest moments.
(5) When his proteges, the Muslim-leftists, were getting the upper hand, Syria's President Assad switched sides, sending in his army to help the right-wing Christian Phalangists.
(6) According to Israel's subsequent Kahan commission of inquiry, two days later Israeli forces allowed Phalangist gunmen to enter west Beirut's Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps.
(7) However, the Phalangists' promised assistance was not forthcoming.
(8) Eitan negotiated with the Maronite Phalangist leader, Bashir Gemayel, in May, and sent Israeli troops in to Beirut in July, well beyond the agreed 40km limit.
(9) He was accused of war crimes after between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians were butchered at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangist Christians while Israeli forces stood by.