Zitat:Israel warns Lebanon over the rights to new gasfields

JONATHAN FERZIGER AND DAVID WAINER
June 26, 2010

JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to use military force against Lebanon to protect recently discovered natural gasfields in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Minister of National Infrastructure, Uzi Landau, has said.

He was responding to the Speaker of Lebanon's parliament, who said the fields extended into his nation's waters.

''We will not hesitate to use our force and strength to protect not only the rule of law but the international maritime law,'' Mr Landau said in an interview. ''Whatever we find, they will have something to say. That's because they're not challenging our findings and so-called occupation of the sea. Our very existence here is a matter of occupation for them. These areas are within the economic waters of Israel.''
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Zitat:Lebanon seeks to approve oil law against Israel

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says Israel drilling in his country's territorial waters; government to discuss natural gas reserves on Monday

Roee Nahmias
Published: 06.25.10, 10:31 / Israel News

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Friday that his country plans to approve an oil law, which would maintain Lebanon's gas rights in the Mediterranean.
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"Israel is ignoring the fact that, according to the maps, this field is included within Lebanon's territorial waters," he said.

Berri called on the Lebanese government to launch gas and oil drillings in its waters and warned that Israel would gain control of Lebanon's gas rights in the Mediterranean.

"The best answer to Israel's threats is to rush to approve the oil law," he said. The Lebanese government is expected to discuss the matter on Monday.
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Zitat:Israel violates Lebanon's airspace
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:53:45 GMT

The Lebanese army has announced that Israeli reconnaissance aircraft have violated Lebanon's airspace for the third time in a week.
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The event was the latest in a series of violations occurring within the period of one week. Israeli military planes had also flown over Lebanese airspace on Sunday and Thursday.

The recent incidents stand in clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended Israel's 33-day war against Lebanon in 2006.
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Dozens of people, including members of Lebanon's telecommunications personnel, were arrested since last year on suspicion of collaborating with the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.

Zitat:Lebanon 'ready to counter Israeli threat'
Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:34:54 GMT

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman says that his country's military forces are ready to confront any threat posed by the Israeli regime.

Speaking at a ceremony marking Lebanon's Army Day on Sunday, the president also called on all the political groups to maintain unity against the enemy.

Meanwhile, he said that Beirut would always defend the rights of Palestinians, specially their refugees to return to their homeland.

He made the remarks after Israeli reconnaissance warplanes violated Lebanon's airspace during the last weeks.
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Shahab3 schrieb:Der nächste Krieg zwischen Israel und Libanon könnte sich nicht um Land, sondern um Wasser (Erdgas) drehen:
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Zitat:Naher Osten
Tote bei Gefecht zwischen Israel und Libanon
Israel und Libanon haben sich ein heftiges Feuergefecht geliefert, bei dem offenbar auch Artillerie zum Einsatz kam. Israelische Soldaten sollen für kurze Zeit die Grenze überquert haben. Zwei libanesische Soldaten und ein Journalist wurden getötet.

03. August 2010

Bei dem bisher schwersten Grenzzwischenfall seit dem Krieg zwischen Israel und dem Libanon vor vier Jahren sind am Dienstag vier Menschen getötet worden. Auf libanesischer Seite wurden bis zum Abend der Tod von zwei Soldaten und eines Journalisten gemeldet. Die israelische Armee bestätigte, dass der Kommandeur eines Bataillons getötet und ein weiterer Offizier verletzt worden sei.

Die Regierung in Beirut warf israelischen Soldaten vor, auf libanesisches Staatsgebiet vorgedrungen zu sein. Präsident Suleiman sagte, Israel habe einen libanesischen Militärstützpunkt angegriffen und damit die UN-Resolution 1701 verletzt, die den Krieg im Jahr 2006 beendet hatte.
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Zitat:A UNIFIL force that toured the site of Tuesday's deadly clashes between IDF and Lebanese army forces determined that the Israeli soldiers operated within Israeli territory and did not cross into Lebanon. (Hanan Greenberg)

Zitat:Lebanon nabs another 'Israeli spy'

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:13 GMT

Lebanese security forces have captured a high-ranking army officer on suspicion of spying for Israel in line with Beirut's attempt to dismantle the espionage ring.

The army colonel was detained several days ago, the country's al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Earlier on Monday, a senior manager at Lebanese cell phone service provider, Ogero, was arrested on suspicion of spying for the Israeli regime.
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Lebanon has arrested about 50 people in recent months in connection with alleged Israeli espionage activities.

Zitat:New Israel-Lebanon war likely to be more violent, destructive: ICG
Political roots of 2006 conflict remain ‘unaddressed ’ think tank warns
By Simona Sikimic
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

BEIRUT: A new Israeli-Lebanon conflict is likely to be far more violent, inflict greater damage to civilian and government infrastructure and lead to the direct embroilment of other regional actors, warned a new report released Monday by the International Crisis Group (ICG), the leading conflict-resolution think tank

A new conflict will also likely affect greater parts of the country, especially the Bekaa Valley, and will not be isolated to the south or the Shiite areas of Beirut which were systematically targeted in 2006, said the report entitled “Drums of War: Israel and the ‘Axis of Resistance.’”

The Lebanese government is advised to take immediate steps to “significantly” increase troop numbers in the south and to improve the range and quality of military training and equipment available to its troops, as a bulwark against a slide to war.
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Zitat:Israel jets, drone enter Lebanon airspace

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:36:37 GMT

Four Israeli warplanes and one spy drone have illegally flown over Lebanon's airspace in the third day of provocative violations of the country's sovereignty.

On Friday, an Israeli aircraft entered the southern border town of Naqoura, the Lebanese Army said in a statement.
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Shahab3 schrieb:Den dritten Tag in Folge provoziert die IAF mit Luftraumverletzungen die libanesischen Sicherheitskräfte:

Nightwatch schrieb:Wann wird denn dei Hisbollah endlich entwaffnet?

Nightwatch schrieb:Wann wird denn dei Hisbollah endlich entwaffnet?

Zitat:Wenn die Libanesen das für richtig halten.

Zitat:Die Hizballah ist damit nicht nur längst Teil der politischen Landschaft sondern inzwischen auch anerkannter Teil der staatlichen Verteidigungskräfte. Sie hat diesen Aufstieg einerseits der demographischen Struktur als auch ihrer Politik der nationalen Einheit und nicht zuletzt auch ihren militärischen Erfolgen zu verdanken. Das wird von der Mehrheit der Libanesen (nicht von allen) geschätzt. Aber mal genauso blöd zurück gefragt? Wann wird denn eigentlich Israel entwaffnet? :lol:

Zitat:Libanesische Armee unterstützt Hisbollah

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Israel hat gegen die libanesische Armee den Vorwurf erhoben, sie würde der Miliz der Schiitenorganisation Hisbollah dabei helfen, Waffen im Südlibanon zu verstecken. Die Hisbollah bringe mit Unterstützung der regulären Streitkräfte Waffen in das Gebiet südlich des Litani-Flusses, erklärte die israelische Regierung am Freitagabend.
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Quelle: jns und Agenturen
19.Juli 2009

Zitat:Ich würde mal lieber nicht lachen. Die Integrierung der Hisbollah in die libanesischen Streitkräfte würde in der nächsten Runde einen unbeschränkten Krieg gegen den Libanesischen Staat zur Folge haben.
Und das wird den Libanesen sehr sehr weh tun.

Zitat:Lebanon Cabinet allows Hezbollah to keep arms
(AP)

11 December 2009
BEIRUT — The Lebanese parliament overwhelmingly approved a national unity government Thursday that will allow Hezbollah to keep its weapons, despite strong criticism from pro-Western lawmakers angry at the militant group’s refusal to disarm.
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Despite that sentiment, shared by many in parliament’s pro-Western majority, the 128-member assembly approved the new Cabinet by a vote of 122 to 1 with one abstention. Only 124 lawmakers attended the session.
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Zitat:Lebanon: Hezbollah may fight Israel to recover land
By Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern

Lebanon's new government guidelines declare Hezbollah has the right to fight against Israel to "recover the land occupied by Israel." The document was drafted on Friday and will be brought before the government for approval tomorrow.
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"Lebanon, its army, its people and its resistance [Hezbollah] have the right to take action to liberate lands that have remained occupied at the Shaba Farms, the hills of Shuba village and the northern portion of the village of Ghajar, with all legitimate means possible, and to resist Israeli aggression."
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Zitat:Army, with Hezbollah cooperation, arrests man working for Israel
February 16, 2009

The Army Intelligence Directorate with the cooperation of Hezbollah arrested a man identified as Marwan F., 40, from Kfartebnit in South Lebanon. He was an owner of a petrol station in Nabatiyeh and was suspected of working with Israeli Intelligence.
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