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Article: VOA NEWS: PROMINENT U.S. SENATOR CALLS FOR RESOLUTION OF SHEBAA FARMS DISPUTE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 20, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Paula Wolfson
A prominent member of the United States Senate says resolving the Shebaa Farms dispute is key to efforts to bring peace to Lebanon.
Senator Diane Feinstein says there will not be peace in Lebanon until the dispute over Shebaa Farms is resolved.
"Shebaa Farms is just a rocky, very small area up in the north of Israel," said Diane Feinstein.
Shebaa Farms lies at a strategic spot - at the junction of Israel, Syria and Lebanon. It has been occupied by Israel since it captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967. But the Lebanese say it is their land, and Hezbollah militants have turned the fate of this 10 square-kilometer ...