page_title: Syrian Social Nationalist Party
section_title: SSNP in Lebanon
hierarchical_section_title: Syrian Social Nationalist Party / SSNP in Lebanon
caption_attribution_description: Flags of the Syria Social Nationalist Party in Beirut, Lebanon, during the 2008 unrest in Lebanon.
context_page_description: The Syrian Social Nationalist Party, is a social nationalist party operating in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. It advocates the establishment of a Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present-day Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Sinai, southeastern Turkey, based on geographical boundaries and the common history people within the boundaries share.
  With over 100,000 members as of 2016, it is the second-largest legal political group in Syria after the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, In Lebanon, it has been a major secular and highly organised elite party in the political history of the country for over 80 years. Until recent times it was a key group in the March 8 Alliance.
  Founded in Beirut in 1932 as an anticolonial and national liberation organization hostile to French colonialism, the party played a significant role in Lebanese politics and was involved in attempted coups d'état in 1949 and 1961, following which it was thoroughly repressed.
caption: Flags of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Beirut on May 9 during the 2008 conflict in Lebanon
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