Lebanon Fears for Future of Disputed Territory with Israel
Lebanon has voiced fears that the U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights undermines Lebanon’s claim to disputed territory also annexed by Israel.
President Michel Aoun raised those fears on Tuesday during a press conference with visiting Bulgarian President Rumen Radev.
Arab countries unanimously rejected the recent U.S. recognition of Israeli control over the Golan, seized from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981, calling the Trump administration's policies unfairly biased toward Israel.
But for Lebanon, there are fears over its claim to the Shebaa Farms and adjacent Kfar Shouba hills, which Israel occupied alongside Golan in 1967.
Israel had occupied south Lebanon, but despite withdrawing in 2000, remained in these strategic areas. The U.N., which doesn't recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan, has said Lebanon's claim is to be settled with the Golan's fate.
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Excuse me, but from what I have read and seen over the last 50+ years the Shaaba Farms are a disputed territory between Lebanon and Syria. Only when that dispute is finalised can Lebanon (if it wins its dispute) then claim that Israel is occupying this territory.
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very true philippe. Also, please note that there are around 375 disputed territories across the world. The ver very big majority of them involves no wars, just diplomatic conversations, or verbal disputes now and then. They are all referenced in Wikipedia. This "dispute" is just a pretext for Ebola to keep its weapons... It is obvious, and we all know it!
Lebanon Fears for Future of Disputed Territory with Israel
Why fear? Let the glorious iranian terror group that calls itself 'resistance' liberate the disputed territory instead of liberating sunni cities in the arab world.