Who were the major combatants in the Lebanese Civil War? Throughout the course of the war, which of these groups were allied or fighting each other?

by AnaximanderSrr

The information I've gathered so far seems really fragmented, and I'd like to finally understand which factions were allied with each other, and what they're ideologies were. Specifically : -Maronite Christians -Israel -Shiite Islamists (Hezbollah) -Palestinians -Sunni Islamists -Syria (Ba'ath Party) -Muslim Lebanese Nationalists -Marxists -Pan-Arabists -Non-Socialist Secular Factions

Visceralrealism

The answer to this is very complicated, and changed often. It was a long time ago, but I remember thinking that Robert Fisk's Pity The Nation did a very good job of untangling the complexities of the Lebanese Civil War.