Talk:Blue Line (Lebanon)
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I have a few concerns about the information on this page: 1. The background is misleading by showing that Lebanon deserved Israeli attack against it which, is not the case. 2. The statement 'based on the best available cartographic and other documentary evidence.' needs evidence. 3. The Lebanese Army carried out surveyings beside the UN team and found out that the Blue Line has truncated huge areas from Lebanon and therefoe it does not match with the Lebanese borders. 4. Lebanon considers the Blue Line as a line that demarcates the Israeli troops deployment and not a border line. Lebanon also claims land at four points along the Blue Line and this fact is documented in the UN. This should be included in the article. 5. Lebanese borders with Palestine were demarcated by the French and the English before the declaration of the state of Israel and the borderlines are documented. Three of the Lebanese claims are on Israeli-Lebanese borders. 6. The fourth claim is on Lebanese-Syrian borders in Shebaa farms, which Israel says it is Syrian and Lebanon and Syrias say it is Lebanese. Both ways, Israel does not have the right to keep it. 7. The breaches to the Blue Line by both sides should be included as well as the casualties resulted from these breaches. 8. The statement 'they would respect the line as identified' needs a proof and reference is it was correct.
(a_rihani) 13:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
This article definitely needs a map/image Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 17:05, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Neutrality
It seems to me that most of the concerns previously raised have been fixed. Is the neutrality still disputed? RyanEberhart 16:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Differences to Green Line?
Is the Blue Line identical to the Green Line in northern Israel, ie the 1949 cease-fire line? I mean towards Lebanon and except the Golan Heights-Lebanon part.Vints 11:10, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
No, a few very small differences (around a half dozen), none more than 475 meters. One is at the spot (though it was not a factor) of the much-reported Feb. 7, 2007 incursion into Lebanon across the Blue Line by Israel. DLinth 20:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Much of the article is copied from http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unifil/background.html, starting from "From 24 May to 7 June..." Vints 12:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)