Junblat doubts Lebanese maps for Shabaa farms
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 2/13/2006

The Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Junblat doubted the accuracy of maps confirming the Lebanese identity on Shebaa Farms, an area which was confiscated by Israel in 1967 during its occupation of the Syrian Golan heights.

The Lebanese parliamentarian who is among the majority standing against Damascus presented in the parliament Lebanese official maps that he said dats back to the year 1962, in which the Shebaa Farms are located outside the borders of the country, and compared it to another map which he said is false and he had received in 2001, in which this area is included as part of the Lebanese lands.

Junblat said that Lebanese former officials for general security lt. gen. Jamil al-Sayyed handed him the "false" map in 2001. AL-Sayyed and three of his assistants of the Lebanese security are currently held in custody over suspicion of being involved in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.

The Druze leader said in the course of his justification to the demands to dismantle the weapons of Hizbullah that "the maps of 1962 explain our borders with Syria in which, for example, we see Shabaa and other villages inside Syria and in the year 2001 the lines of the borders have changed."

He added "this map permits an armed force to control south Lebanon, and use it through the Lebanese-Syrian and Iranian alliance to an indefinite horizon," in remarks to Hizbullah.

The UN considered the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000 as a full implementation of UN Security Council resolution 425 of the year 1978, and demanded Syria and Lebanon to prove the Lebanese identity of the Shabaa Farms so as to be covered by the withdrawal.

Worthy mentioning that the issue of dismantling the weapons of Hizbullah has become the subject of the political differences between the Hizbullah party and the so-called "March 14 forces" which demanded in a statement two days ago of demanding Hizbullah weapons.

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