The Israeli government’s unilateral decision regarding maritime borders with Lebanon has sparked a serious diplomatic row, with the Lebanese government filing a complaint with the United Nations over what they call “aggression” against their own territorial claims.
The maritime border between the two has never been finalized, and the Lebanese government believes that it should extend latitudinally from the border between the two nations. Israel, for its part, believes that since the land border juts out at an angle, the sea border should as well.
The reason this is only becoming a serious issue now is that a large offshore natural gas deposit was found in the disputed region between the two proposed borders. Israel’s government has now unilaterally declared their version of the border the correct one.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman insists that the decision is final, saying they have reached an agreement with Cyprus to respect their newly-claimed borders. He also claimed the Lebanese objection was simply a Hezbollah plot to raise tensions in the region. This is of course false, because the exact same objections about the border were raised by the previous Lebanese government, which was hostile to Hezbollah and had close ties with the US.
There must be petroleum in them thar waters.
Gas. Vasts deposits of natural gas which Israel has already been stealing from Lebanon.
+++Israel, for its part, believes that since the land border juts out at an angle, the sea border should as well.+++
Of course it does, and if the border angle was advantageous to Lebanon I'm sure Israel would be willing to let that determine the final maritime border.
No petroleum but massive natural gas. YOu can be certain that Israel wants the water of Lebanon and the natural gas. BTW Gaza has a lot of water and natural gas thus you get an idea of why the Israel are unwilling to give up on the worlds largest concentration camp. The basic news of how the Israel blockade starves so many woman children is ignore with the massive profits they will get from the gas fields off shore.
Ben Gurion wanted Lebanon up to the Latave river in 1919 so much of the cries of facing troubles from the PLO in Lebanon are an excuse to steal the land that the zionist wanted from the start. Israel has done everything possible to defeat the nation of Lebanon only to leave so many dead IDF. Why would Israel waste the lives of so many other than it is very profitable to get the gas and water.
Fromer Isreali PM Begin said in this 1954 autobiagraph "The Revolt", that Isreal owned up to the Latave river, then he invaded and grabbed it. They will try again. That is why Isreal used thousands of cluster bombs on the last days of the last war, so that the residence wold not return.
the cluster bums left the cluster bombs
Just yesterday, there was an article on Ha'aretz reporting that the Zionists were doing the same thing. Of course, the majority of the posters pointed out to the hypocrisy and wondered why. This would explain it, they wanted to beat Lebanon to the punch. What sick psychopaths!