Washington Post columnist David Ignatius thinks that the Shebaa Farms area once belonged to Lebanon.
The challenge for the United States is to help Lebanon become strong enough to resist Syrian hegemony. A potential breakthrough would be a U.S.-brokered agreement for Israeli withdrawal from the Shebaa Farms area along the Lebanon border, under a U.N. agreement that the territory belongs to Lebanon.
But, as Mitch Bard notes, Shebaa Farms was captured from Syria, not from Lebanon. The United Nations already certified Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanese territory as complete.
