What is the problem of Shabaa Farms ?? Why does Lebanon can't go internationally and demand an Israeli withdrawal from it ?? Why is there no Peace talks concerning it ?? These are examples of some Questions that were asked during and after the Lebanese July 2006 war
Internationally the Shabaa farms are recognized by the international community ,by the UN since 1967 as a Syrian territory , this is a correct information , but does not mean that the farms are parts from Syria , because the people of the farms till now consider themselves Lebanese and they used to pay taxes for the Lebanese state even during the French mandate. There was a dispute between Syria and Lebanon, the French included them in the map as Syrian but the two countries made an investigation committee in late 1950 during the Syrian Union with Egypt to investigate to which country this land belongs to it and in 1964 the committee concluded its investigation reaching to the fact that this is a Lebanese Land , unfortunately the findings were not reported internationally to UN so new maps with the new borders would be drawn nor the two governments did not act according the findings and that was the mistake of both countries and do not ask me why , the Lebanese did not come and control the area nor the Syrians did leave it , may be because the Lebanese army was weaker than the Syrian , do not ask me again because I do not know why , anyhow the Syrian government controlled the area till 1967
And that mistake of not reporting the findings of the committee in order to get new maps and recognized internationally costed us as Arabs a lot
till 2000 Lebanon did not speak about this part of the land when it came and said that these are Lebanese land , they were supported by Syria and by the Arab League, of course the Israelis and the Americans said that this was not true and internationally it belongs to Syria and that's Syria behind this in order to justify the attacks of Hezbollah , of course they depend mainly on the UN records and the facts that officially the farms are Syria , did not I tell you it costed us a lot ??
Despite the fact that Syria itself admits and recognizes officially by the Lebanese identity of Shabaa's farms as they occupied pre-1967
Ironically Walid Jumblatt said that they are not Lebanese , well Walid Bek says a lot of things , I mean I remember watching him in video where he said in 1980s he would never ever recognize the Ta'af agreement !! And now he is supporting it 100% .
On the other hand the Lebanese Pope's candidate Michael Ada , the famous anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli former Lebanese minister says otherwise ,he considers it as a Lebanese
and Jimmy Carter too says that they are Lebanese
Anyhow it is not from the benefit of Israel that it would be recognized internationally as Lebanese for two reasons , first it will give Hezbollah an international justified reason for attack , it is their land and they want it back
Second instead of having two Arab parties engaged to in Peace talk we will have three parties , Syria,Palestinian authority and Lebanon , and Lebanon will be mostly on the Syrian side , giving more power and weight to Syria I think , Syria now is alone , the Palestinian authority talks alone with Israel
Of course Lebanon is with Syria and with the rest of the Arab countries that agree on the Arab Saudi Initiative "The land of 1967 for Peace"
and of course Israel does not want this , it does not want a real peace it wants Security for Peace
By the way Lebanon as independent State in the negotiation will be very powerful because she is a victorious state ,it won Israel in the July 2006 war and yes I consider Hezbollah as a Lebanese army , it presented itself as a very powerful force Also the Lebanese army during the war stood against the Israeli attack bravely if you remember
As you see historical mistakes we Arabs did Israel always take in to its advantage
@anonymous , bringing an article by Gabriel Amin does not prove anything expect showing the view of the man , as you know Hezbollah got many enemies from inside that support Israel
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the angle from which you see things , for me Israel was defeated militarily and this is not something small or undestimated at all
Hezbollah proved to grow up from national force to international force
internally , hello you are in Lebanon,you must have parties that hate the southern groups more than death itself