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	Shebaa Farms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shebaa Farms is a disputed, agricultural area consisting of a dozen or more abandoned farms located southwest of Shebaa, a Lebanese village on the northwestern slopes of Mount Hermon, at the junction of Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
		The Lebanese refer to the ridge at the northern end of the Shebaa Farms area as the Kafr Shuba Hills, an area that Israel refers to as Har Dov.
		Israel took control of Shebaa Farms during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in which Syria but not Lebanon took part, and says the area is not covered by United Nations UN Security Council Resolution 425 that governs its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shebaa_Farms (1264 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Sheeba Farms
		Hezbollah leaders and the Lebanese government considers the Shebaa Farms to be part of Lebanon.
		Israel considers the Shebaa Farms to be part of the Golan Heights.
		That commission decided in 1964 to include the Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, but apparently no official demarcation of the border actually occurred and the older maps showing the Shebaa Farms in Syria continued to be used.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sheeba-Farms (1004 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Shebaa Farms
		Shebaa, Lebanon (village) Shebaa Farms See also: Shaba This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
		Shebaa Farms is a disputed area consisting of 14 farms located south of Shebaa, a Lebanese village on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, at the corner where Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet.
		During the 1967 Six Day War Israeli forces seized a piece of Lebanese territory called the Shebaa Farms, a 25 square kilometer area consisting of 14 farms located south of the Shebaa, a Lebanese village on the western slopes of Mount Hermon.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shebaa-Farms (2009 words)

	Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture
		The farmers of the Shebaa farms had free access to their lands and it mattered very little to them whose sovereignty their private property was under.
		The fact that the Shebaa farms became an issue for the Lebanese before April 2000 could also be seen in the list of demands Lebanon compiled in preparation for a possible peace accord with Israel.
		For Hizbullah, the Shebaa farms front continues to preoccupy the armed wing of the organization and, in fact, to maintain its raison d’être - the muqawama - or resistance against Israel.
	www.pij.org /details.php?id=9 (2407 words)

	Shebaa Farms - A Lebanese Land Occupied by Israel -- Brief History
		This relates to the status of certain villages and adjacent land on the eastern side of Alsheikh Mountain, known as the “Shebaa Farms”, which have been occupied by Israel since 1967.
		The breaches consist of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory and attacks on Israeli occupation military targets in the “Shebaa Farms” area.
		Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and 1966 specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms, including Zebdine, Fashkoul, Mougr Shebaa and Ramta, all of which are designated as being lebanese.
	www.shebaafarms.org /briefhistory.html (647 words)

	Shebaa Farms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shebaa Farms, is disputed area consisting of 14 farms located south of Shebaa, a Lebanese village on the westernslopes of Mount Hermon, at the corner where Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet.Statements as the size of the vary from 10 to 25 square kilometers.
		Israel considers the Shebaa Farms to be part of the GolanHeights.
		Israel took control of Shebaa Farms during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in which Syria but not Lebanon took part, and says the area is not covered by United Nations Security Council Resolution425 that governs its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
	www.therfcc.org /shebaa-farms-153978.html (691 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Farms foreshadow withdrawal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shebaa issue is so central to the Lebanese/Syrian track of the peace process that it almost eclipsed the news of Israeli air raids on 14 April that targeted Lebanese power stations.
		Although the return of the Shebaa Farms has been a long-standing demand of the Lebanese government, the recent elevation of the controversy to the forefront of the political agenda has sent geographers and political analysts scurrying to recheck their maps.
		A political analyst, who asked not to be named, said that the Shebaa Farms case was a pressure card Lebanon and Syria are using in an attempt to prevent a unilateral withdrawal outside the context of a peace deal.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/482/re2.htm (923 words)

	Shebaa Farms: Ground Zero For a Regional War? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shebaa Farms are in a small strip of land between the Golan Heights and the Lebanese border.
		According to one Israeli geographer, Shebaa Farms was put under Lebanese control by the French in the 1920's but was taken over by Syria in the 1950's.
		Shebaa is a small area, and obscure outside of the Middle East.
	www.faoa.org /journal/shebaa.html (2396 words)

	n i l e M e d i a . c o m
		At the close of the 1967 war, after the declaration of a UN cease-fire, Israel seized the Golan Heights of Syria, expelled the indigenous Syrian population and annexed the land.
		Powell stated that Shebaa Farms wasn't part of Lebanon at all, it was part of Syria.
		Powell and the US government were truly interested in resolving the legitimate grievances of the Lebanese and Syrian governments and defusing the Shebaa Farms powder keg, they would demand and enforce an end to Israel's occupation.
	www.nilemedia.com /Topics/News/2002/April/The_Shifting.html (957 words)

	Lebanon, FAQ, Shebaa Farms & the Hidden Truth
		The objective of this piece is to shed some light on the Shebaa Farms fabrication in a chronological overview spanning the period of 1924 to the present.
		The residents of the Farms were warned in September 1957 by Syrian authorities that they should submit family and personal data that included their acceptance of the Syrian nationality instead of the Lebanese.
		The UN tried to peacefully dismantle the booby-trap of the Shebaa Farms through the mechanisms of international law, by asking the Lebanese and Syrian governments to submit official documents signed by both countries and clearly specifying Syria's recognition of the Shebaa Farms as Lebanese.
	www.lgic.org /english/eng-mainfaq-Shebaa.htm (2807 words)

	The Shebaa Farms
		The objective of this document is to shed light on the Shebaa Farms "occupation" fabrication in a chronological overview spanning the period from 1924 to the present.
		Since 1924, the Shebaa Farms were treated as Lebanese territory, but Syria refused to recognize this fact, as it refused indeed to recognize the independence of Lebanon as a sovereign country.
		The inhabitants of the Shebaa Farms were warned (September 1957) by Syrian authorities that families there should submit statements saying that they accept the Syrian identity instead of the Lebanese.
	www.10452lccc.com /eliasenglish/shaba.farms16.3.05.htm (2951 words)

	Shebaa Farms: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shebaa Farms is a disputed area consisting of 14 farms located south of Shebaa, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The golan heights, previously known as the syrian heights, are a plateau on the border of israel, lebanon, jordan and syria....
		The 1949 armistice agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between israel and its neighbors egypt, jordan, lebanon and syria....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shebaa_farms.htm (1679 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - The key to Shebaa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A portion of the older generation in Lebanon who grew up in the Shebaa Farms insists it is Lebanese land, and has the documents to prove it.
		The al-Saadi farm remains firmly in Israeli hands, as do 13 other farms which were excluded from the Israeli withdrawal of southern Lebanon in May 2000.
		Fashkul and Barakhta are among the Shebaa Farms.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/717FD283-592E-44BA-8A22-9D46B441C304.htm (1351 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| World dispatch \| Solution sought for Shebaa Farms
		Israeli forces moved into the Shebaa Farms during the 1967 war, though according to Mr Siniora they did not take over the whole area then but extended their occupation "piecemeal" between 1967 and 1989.
		At the time of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, the UN studied various maps and decided that the Shebaa Farms area belonged to Syria and was therefore not covered by security council resolution 425, which had called on Israel 22 years earlier to "withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese territory".
		Whether the Shebaa Farms area is really Syrian or Lebanese, Israel has no business being there and it could bring matters to a head by pulling its forces out or announcing its intention to do so.
	www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1771766,00.html (1045 words)

	Hizbullah: Shebaa Farms Off-limits to Palestinian Fighters, 2 Nov. 01 : LA IMC
		A senior PFLP-GC official confirmed to The Daily Star that two Palestinians killed in October last year near the border fence at Abbassieh at the foot of the Shebaa Farms hills were members of the group.
		The official said that the fighters who were equipped with mines, wire cutters and automatic weapons had been testing Israeli troop responses to a breach of the fence and were not intending to infiltrate Israel in depth to launch an attack.
		In January, another two PFLP-GC fighters were killed in Bastara on the edge of the Shebaa Farms by fire from Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=12613 (780 words)

	Shebaa Farms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shebaa Farms is a disputed area consisting of farms located south of Shebaa a Lebanese on the western slopes of Mount Hermon at the corner where Syria Lebanon and Israel meet.
		Syrian authorities consider Shebaa Farms as of Lebanon in contradiction to the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
		Lebanese army maps published in 1961 and specifically pinpoint several of the Shebaa Farms Zebdine Fashkoul Mougr Shebaa and Ramta all which are designated as being Lebanese.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sheeba_Farms (1067 words)

	Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The United Nations and Syria have openly clashed over the status of the Shebaa farms, fueling alarm about the U.N. peacekeeping role in the wake of Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon, analysts in Lebanon said Thursday.
		The leftist daily As Safir accused Larsen of distorting "Syria's position on the Lebanese identity of the Shebaa Farms." It said Sharaa hurriedly called Lebanese Prime Minister Selim Hoss by telephone to assure him that Syria's position on the Shebaa farms remained unchanged as far as Lebanon's sovereignty over the plateau was concerned.
		Lebanon has been insisting that Shebaa is Lebanese territory while Israel said it had captured Shebaa in 1967, and that its fate should be discussed in future talks with Damascus.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/general/00-06-01.htm (534 words)

	CNN.com - World - Syria accepts U.N. ruling on Shebaa Farms, envoy says - May 31, 2000
		The disputed area, called Shebaa Farms, is at the foot of Mount Hermon on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
		The United Nations insists the Shebaa issue should be dealt with in negotiations between Israel and Syria and that the U.N. could consider Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon last week complete without a handover of the Shebaa Farms.
		Larsen raised the Shebaa Farms issue during the talks, saying it was not under the mandate of the UNIFIL forces (U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon) in south Lebanon, but related to the end of UNDOF (U.N. Disengagement Observer Force) in the occupied Syrian Golan," al-Sharaa said.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/05/31/israel.syria.02/index.html (587 words)

	Middle East Report Online: Walking into Israel's Trap? Syria and the Shebaa Farms, by Michael Young
		The most recent Hizballah cross-border attack in the Shebaa Farms area on April 14, and the subsequent Israeli air raid against a Syrian radar station on the Dahr al-Baidar ridge, have heightened fears of a regional conflict between Syria and Israel.
		Both Lebanon and Syria have resisted the deployment, for fear that the Shebaa Farms would cease to be a military flashpoint.
		Bashar has continued to support military operations in the Shebaa Farms area, even though the political and economic cost to Lebanon could be prohibitively high.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero041901.html (1591 words)

	World Affairs Board - Hezbollah fires missiles at Israeli posts in Shebaa Farms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shebaa Farms is an area near the poorly defined borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria that Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
		Lebanon agrees Shebaa is its territory, but Israel says Shebaa farms are part of the Golan Heights.
		Israeli diplomats say Shebaa farms could not be part of Lebanon because a May 2000 U.N. report certified that Israel had withdrawn entirely from Lebanon (in compliance with U.N. Resolution 425).
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=875 (240 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Hizbullah launches more attacks in Shebaa Farms
		Hizbullah launched further attacks against Israeli outposts in the Shebaa Farms Tuesday, hours after up to four Katyusha rockets were reportedly fired toward northern Israel.
		Since the recent escalation began March 30, Hizbullah has staged eight attacks in the Shebaa Farms, raising the number of operations in the occupied district to 19 since October 2000.
		Israeli troops manning the Shebaa Farms outposts have become accustomed to attacks in the late afternoon and early evening and take precautions before the mortar rounds begin falling, say the Israeli media.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0204/02041003DS.htm (468 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| In focus: Shebaa farms
		The 14 farms are named after the village of Shebaa, on the western slopes of Mount Hermon.
		He said no-one disputed that the village of Shebaa itself was in Lebanon, but most of the farms fell into an undefined area that may be either in Lebanon or Syria.
		Syria agrees with Lebanon that the Shebaa farms area is part of Lebanon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/763504.stm (581 words)

	"Syria and the Shebaa Farms Dispute" (May 2001)
		The Shebaa Farms "dispute" is a figment of no one's imagination, but a deliberately-crafted Syrian pretext for sponsoring paramilitary attacks against Israel and a justification for its continuing occupation of Lebanon.
		Roed-Larsen was told that, in addition to the areas occupied in 1978, Israeli forces seized a piece of Lebanese territory during the 1967 Six Day War called the Shebaa Farms, a 25 square kilometer area consisting of 14 farms located south of Shebaa, a Lebanese village on the western slopes of Mount Hermon.
		In the two Lebanese towns closest to the disputed area, Shebaa and Kfar Shouba, few people consider the Shebaa Farms to be worth fighting for.
	www.meib.org /articles/0105_l1.htm (2441 words)

	Partners for Peace - Library - In the Media
		But this cannot be the case as Shebaa Farms is not in Israel.
		Shebaa Farms is certainly close to the Israeli border, but readers should be informed that the attack was most definitely in occupied territory and not inside Israel.
		The map seems to put Shebaa Farms on the Israeli side of the border though an official with the newspaper's maps desk said it was an optical illusion.
	www.partnersforpeace.org /inmedia/db200308270 (1754 words)

	Israel Hits Lebanon - Risks Of Wider Conflict Mount
		Israeli security officials accused Hizbollah of launching the attacks, but a Hizbollah official denied the claim, saying the party's attacks on Saturday were limited to Israeli troops occupying Shebaa Farms in the foothills of the Golan.
		Israel captured Shebaa Farms from Syria in 1967 along with the rest of the Golan Heights.
		The United Nations says Shebaa is Syrian land and does not recognize Lebanon's claim to it.
	www.rense.com /general21/mnt.htm (499 words)

	ipedia.com: Shebaa Farms Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Israel took control of Shebaa Farms during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in which Syria but not Lebanon took part, and says the area is not covered by United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 that governs its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
		This position is based on the 1923 Anglo-French demarcation and the 1949 Armistice Agreements which designate the area of Shebaa Farms as Syrian territory.
		However, the UN has not ruled on the border, though its position would imply that the Shebaa Farms is not Lebanese:
	www.ipedia.com /shebaa_farms.html (1059 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Officials take issue with Annan Shebaa ‘miscue’
		The reference to the Shebaa Farms came in a paragraph discussing security along the occupied Golan Heights, describing the area under the UN Disengagement Observers Force’s authority as generally calm over the past six months, with the exception of the “disputed Shebaa Farms sector on the Lebanese border.”
		It was Israel that claimed that the Shebaa Farms were Syrian territory when it occupied them during the 1967 war, ministerial sources insisted, adding that the aim behind this claim was to drive a wedge between Beirut and Damascus.
		The sources added that Syria’s envoy to the UN, Mikhael Wehbe, had recognized that the Shebaa Farms were Lebanese territories in a letter addressed to Annan, which was not accepted by Annan, who contended the recognition had come in a general letter, not in an official document, as demanded.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0205/02052805DS.asp (347 words)

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