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Article: Behind the dispute over Shebaa Farms; The resolution that quieted the fight between Hizbullah and Israel requires the UN to address who owns this land.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 22, 2006
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Byline: Joshua MitnickCorrespondent of The Christian Science Monitor
KIBBUTZ DAN, ISRAEL -- Until six years ago, the mountain range that rises beyond the verdant orchards of this farming collective at Israel's northern tip was best known as the site where Abraham received his divine covenant in the Old Testament.
Few Lebanese or Israelis knew the range as the location of the Shebaa Farms, the site of an arcane border dispute that ultimately unraveled into a month-long war between Hizbullah and Israel.
"It's an arid piece of land," says Adib Farha, a former aide to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a native of the southern Lebanese ...