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Lawag3:
Israel captured the land from Syrian not Lebanese control.


The UNITED NATIONS see the land as a Syrian land.

I deal in facts.


Even some politicians in Lebanon believe that it isn't Lebanese land.


https://thearabweekly.com/issue-shebaa-farms-stirs-heated-debate-lebanon


As speculation mounts that Israel could return the Golan Heights to Syria as part of a peace deal, the status of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms on Lebanon’s borders is being fiercely debated.

Sovereignty over the Shebaa Farms, an 11km sliver of land on the borders of Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories, has been a contentious issue in Lebanon for decades.

However, a recent statement by Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblatt that Lebanon has no claim to the disputed farmlands’ elevated tensions.

Jumblatt, reiterating a long-held position, said Lebanon’s claims to the territory were based on maps altered by its officials, who were in cahoots with Syria. The manipulation of the maps, Jumblatt said, took place after Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

Jumblatt implied that Hezbollah, which claims that Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon remains incomplete because of its control over the farmlands, is keeping the controversy alive to justify its role as a self-proclaimed defender of the state.

By positioning itself against an occupying power that could seek to fully annex the territory, the reasoning goes that Hezbollah gives itself a pretext to maintain its weapons stockpile, furthering its own interests and those of its regional sponsors, Damascus and Tehran.

Jumblatt’s recent statement on the Shebaa Farms ramped up tensions between the PSP and Hezbollah, which have had a rocky relationship over the years. The two parties’ relations were at their worst in 2008 when Hezbollah embarked on occupying Beirut and headed towards the mountains where its fighters were confronted by inhabitants supported by PSP.

Relations improved in the years after but were strained in 2011 when Hezbollah played an active part in the Syrian war.

Jumblatt came under increasing political pressure. In 2017, the size of his parliamentary bloc was effectively limited after parliament — with Hezbollah’s staunch support — passed a law that brought in proportional voting.

In 2018, Hezbollah was behind a rally outside Jumblatt’s headquarters in Moukhtara in a show of force to prove it could move into Jumblatt’s territory and challenge his leadership over the Chouf Mountains, the Druze heartland. Hezbollah put its full weight behind Talal Arslan, a Druze politician and a political rival of Jumblatt.

PSP’s and Hezbollah’s split views on the Shebaa Farms are furthering the two parties’ divide. Jumblatt has been fiercely attacked by Hezbollah and its allies since he reiterated his position.

They accuse Jumblatt of treason, saying that, by foregoing Lebanon’s claims to the farmlands, he is working on behalf of Israel. A social media campaign was begun in which Jumblatt was accused of having a close aide secretly visit Israel.

Politics aside, the legal status of the Shebaa Farms is complicated. Lebanese inhabitants there say they have valid property documents but Jumblatt said: “Ownership is different from sovereignty.”

Historically, the territory has changed hands several times. It was governed by Syria from the early 1950s until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel occupied the territory.

Syria’s position on the issue is unclear. Syrian President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem have publicly conceded that Lebanon has a legitimate claim to the farmlands but have not submitted official documentation to Lebanon or the United Nations demarcating the territory.

In March 2006, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri convened the country’s top officials to address the issue. They[b] unanimously agreed to call on Syria to demarcate the Lebanon-Syria borders and formally request documentation from the neighbouring country backing up Lebanon’s claims. This was never followed through on.[/b]

The dispute remains unsettled and the territory’s official legal status undetermined. In the meantime, politicians are leveraging the issue to score points with their constituents. How and when farmland’s status will be determined remains to be seen.

obedience4:
Comprehension is your problem we are talking about 2006 war you are talking about something else can't you read.


Ode

obedience4:
I don't get what you wrote

obedience4:
there's nothing hazebollah can do that it hasn't done.

Lawag3:
What Lebanese land is occupied?


According to international law sheeba farms is part of Syria. Syria lost it when they lost Golan heights in a war with Israel.

obedience4:
How did hazebollah defeat isreal in 2006, Hazebollah had more casualties than the Jews, more civilians died in labenon than in Israel, labenon was virtually destroyed by the constant bombings, the isrealis never lost any territory to hazebollah but retain its territory in North isreal and since 2006 has added more settlements.

Terrorists sympathetic clowns please what criteria did hazebollah used in defeating isreal??.

obedience4:
You as a terrorist supporter, you should know more about the group you supports, the hazebollah terror group its political wing is the "Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc" party in labenon parliament.

Go and read about hazebollah! And on what basis the terror group was formed.

23jerryking:
leave them jare, as if it's Israel's fault that Lebanon cannot defend her citizens like Israel does.

23jerryking:
keep lying to yourself. The last I checked, the civilians were given evacuation orders before the bombing of Hezbollah targets in the area. These propaganda will do you no good. Keep sympathizing with some blood thirsty lying terrorists.

Kingsnairaland:
I was busy demanding for a just world an even world where every one sit at the table
Will be the best thing
Yet

Not knowing the ones nato are oppressing is just looking for a way to come to the top to do the same things nato did

Common something is not right if killing the beast will make you become the new beast then it better the old beast remains alive

Am just seeing this new reality now

My goodness

obedience4:
In just two days of isreali bombings of Lebanon, the Lebanese authorities are saying close to 100 persons had died, the Lebanese people sadly will bear the brunt of hazebollah actions.

hazebollah a terror group who claim to be fighting for the people can't even protect itself, how can they protect the people they claim to fight for, until the Lebanese take control of thier destiny and rise up against hazebollah they will continually be caught in the cross fire when the IDF rightfully and righteously defend against hazebollah provocations.