OLMERT CONTINUES TO GIVE SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

Report: Olmert considering Shebaa handover (JTA)
Israel could hand over the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon as part of the cease-fire, Ehud Olmert reportedly said. The Israeli prime minister was quoted in Friday’s Haaretz newspaper as telling Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, that Israel could relinquish the tiny border area if the Lebanese enforce all of the cease-fire agreement, including the disarming of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that launched this summer’s war. Olmert and Lavrov met Wednesday.

When Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 to U.N. certified lines, it kept the Shebaa Farms because U.N. officials ruled the area belonged to Syria and was properly subject to Israel-Syria negotiations. Hezbollah used Israel’s continued presence in the area as a pretext to continue attacks. Syria claimed to back the pretext, although it never formally gave up its claim to the area.

OY. IT'S NOT ABOUT LAND. IT'S NOT ABOUT "OCCUPATION." LISTEN TO WHAT ISRAEL'S ENEMIES ARE SAYING AND BELIEVE THEM. IT'S ABOUT RELIGION. SURRENDERING LAND WON'T END ARAB/MUSLIM AGRESSION.