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Article: Study Challenges Israel's Claims on Lebanon Border
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- Forward
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- July 19, 2002
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Perelman, Marc
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07-19-2002
UNITED NATIONS -- New research by an Israeli scholar is showing that the
disputed Shebaa Farms area on the Israeli-Lebanese-Syrian border was in
fact Lebanese under the prewar French mandate. The Israeli government is
worried that the research will bolster Arab claims that Israel has not
fully withdrawn from Lebanon.
The research by Hebrew University professor Asher Kaufman could have
negative diplomatic consequences for Israel because it could undermine one
of its rare points of agreement with the United Nations -- its full
withdrawal behind the so-called Blue Line in May 2000. The U.N. and Israel
both consider Shebaa Farms -- known in Israel as Har Dov -- part of ...
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