Antoun Saadeh
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Antoun Saadeh was a Lebanese politician, sociologist, philosopher and writer who founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
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Saadeh in Lebanon
As envisioned by Saadeh and the SSNP, "Natural Syria" includes modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula, the Ahvaz region of Iran, and Cilicia in southern Anatolia.
Husni al-Za'im
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Husni al-Za'im was a Syrian military officer who served as head of state of Syria in 1949. He had been an officer in the Ottoman Army. After France instituted its colonial mandate over Syria after the
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…of provocations staged by the government of Lebanon against party members. The revolt was suppressed and Saadeh travelled to Damascus to meet with Husni al-Za'im, the President of Syria at the time, who had previously agreed to support him. However, he was handed over by al-Zai'm to the Lebanese authorities…
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Husni al-Zaim in the middle, 1940s.