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Title: | Real issue - motive for disputing FACT Shaba is Lebanese | |||
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| There is no question that historically the Shaba farms were and should be part of Lebanon. http://mideastviews.com/articleview.php?art=346 ?In 1923, three years after the French Mandate was created in Syria and Lebanon, London and Paris reached the Anglo-French Demarcation Agreement, setting the borders for ? Syria and Lebanon. At the time, Sheba was clearly marked as Syrian territory. However, the farms of Sheba were all owned by Lebanese citizens, and these citizens paid taxes to the central government of Beirut. Ironically, the first person to challenge the demarcation of 1923 was Asher Kaufman, a Jewish historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. While rummaging through government archives in Paris in 2002, Kaufman found documents dating from 1920 to 1941 showing that the French had accidentally placed Sheba in Syria instead of Lebanon. Mandate officials had realised their error and wanted to correct the maps. ?However, for reasons still unclear ? the mistake was never fixed. Documents from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s show that the inhabitants of Sheba in fact paid taxes to the Lebanese government ? and they were registered as Lebanese citizens.? |
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