UN mapping Shebaa Farms: Toldja so

Yes, I called it in my last post: The UN is working on ways to screw Israel.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (Reuters) – U.N. cartographers are working at “full speed” to define where the disputed Shebaa Farms between Syria and Lebanon begin and end and which country has jurisdiction, a U.N. envoy said on Monday.

But Terje Roed-Larsen, the top diplomat on Syria and Lebanon relations, told reporters there was “no valid and acceptable geographical definition of what the area is.”

“This is why U.N. cartographers are now working full speed on analyzing if it is at all possible to define in geographical and territorial terms what this area actually encompasses,” Roed-Larsen said.

Working full speed… hm, in UN parlance that means it will take decades. Except that when the UN sees the chance to screw Israel, their timetable suddenly reaches light-speed.

The United Nations says the Shebaa Farms is Syrian territory captured by Israel in the Middle East war of 1967. Syria and Lebanon say it is Lebanese and the Lebanese villagers show visitors their deeds to land in the area.

But Damascus has not signed an agreement with Beirut to demarcate the frontier, which Lebanon’s Hizbollah militia has used as a “resistance” front to end Israeli occupation there.

However, the U.N. Security Council resolution in August that imposed a cease-fire on the Hizbollah-Israeli war asks Syria to sign with Lebanon a clear border agreement. Beirut has proposed that the Shebaa Farms should temporarily become an enclave controlled by the U.N. peacekeepers until a border agreement is reached.

“If we are going to ask, hypothetically, Israel to withdraw from this territory, we have to know what it is,” Roed-Larsen said. The Shebaa Farms area is about 15 square miles.

Toldja so.