[Mrs. Don-o]

"Lebanese leaders call for unity [All of them support the terrorists. ...always have.]"

All of them support....

Don't you realize they had a 15-year civil war? Were you asleep for the whole of the Cedar Revolution, where the citizens of Lebanon finally were able to evict the Syrian soldiers from their territory? Did you miss the bombings that assassinated many anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and journalists? Did you miss the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who took to the streets in support of democracy?

What are we missing here?

[familyop]

The Title said, "Lebanese leaders..." Yes, Lebanon's leaders support the terrorists. Most recently, they disagreed with the proposed ceasefire and demanded that the UN occupy Shebaa Farms (which area belongs to Syria--not Lebanon).

[familyop]

From the Jewish Virtual Library (Mitchell G. Bard, "Myths & Facts Online: Israel and Lebanon") :

MYTH

“Israel still has not satisfied the UN's requirements to withdraw completely from Lebanon because of its illegal occupation of Shebaa Farms.”

FACT

Despite the UN ruling that Israel completed its withdrawal from southern Lebanon,²² Hizballah and the Lebanese government insist that Israel still holds Lebanese territory in eastern Mount Dov, a 100-square-mile, largely uninhabited patch called Shebaa Farms. This claim provides Hizballah with a pretext to continue its activities against Israel. Thus, after kidnapping three Israeli soldiers in that area, it announced that they were captured on Lebanese soil.

Israel, which has built a series of observation posts on strategic hilltops in the area, maintains that the land was captured from Syria; nevertheless, the Syrians have supported Hizballah's claim. According to the Washington Post, the controversy benefits each of the Arab parties. "For Syria, it means Hizballah can still be used to keep the Israelis off balance; for Lebanon, it provides a way to apply pressure over issues, like the return of Lebanese prisoners still held in Israeli jails. For Hezbollah, it is a reason to keep its militia armed and active, providing a ready new goal for a resistance movement that otherwise had nothing left to resist."²³

In January 2005, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning violence along the Israel-Lebanon border and reasserted that the Lebanese claim tothe Shebaa farms area is “not compatible with Security Council resolutions.”