A senior Hezbollah official on Monday said the Lebanese militant organization believes that large swaths of northern Israel belong to Lebanon, far beyond the line Israel pulled back to in 2000. "The Zionist terror organizations moved the border from that of 1920 to that of 1923, and Lebanon lost seven villages and twenty farms. One must be cautious before moving the border to the Blue Line, because then Lebanon will lose millions of square meters," said Nawaf Musawi, head of international relations for Hezbollah.
In referring to the Blue Line, Musawi was speaking of border demarcation the United Nations published in 2000 after the Israel Defense Forces withdrew from southern Lebanon.
Musawi, who is known as the group's "foreign minister," made the comments at the close of a meeting with the Norwegian ambassador to Lebanon. He branded Blue Line, which runs very close to the 1949 Israel-Lebanon border known as the Green Line, as merely a "withdrawal line."
The official's comments mean that Hezbollah has territorial demands beyond the disputed Shaba Farms in the Golan Heights and the divided northern village of Ghajar. While various Lebanese Shi'ite figures have made these demands in the past, Hezbollah has abstained from doing so in recent years.
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That was quick - votes are still in-counting for Barack.
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Many observers including myself were aware of the "7 Villages" scam immediately after Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon several years ago. Hizbullah's salami tactic for the dismemberment of the Jewish state. There will be no end to such provocations by the Islamicists...until death or evacuation via the Mediteranean (sic) Sea by the Jews...
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They agreed to a border, then invented some farm to go nuts about. Now the farm has become a larger swath. Me thinks them Hezbollah guys simply want to fight.
At some point they'll claim Lebanon extends to Sinai.
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i HOPE Israel gives them the fight they want. And take the gloves off this time and seriously whoop their ass. I know the US isn't going too take any gloves off for at least 4 years but maybe the israelis will
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Iran's parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impeach a cabinet minister who has been a close ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a political setback that reflects growing opposition among lawmakers to the president's policies.
Ahmadinejad now faces heavy criticism for his backing of former interior minister Ali Kordan, who was impeached for having falsely claimed to hold an honorary law degree from Oxford University. An aide to Ahmadinejad was fired Sunday for trying to bribe several lawmakers to withdraw their support for the impeachment procedure.
The struggle over Kordan has exposed a growing divide between the government's remaining backers in the parliament. Shifting alliances make it hard to determine the breakdown of support, but Tuesday's vote showed a dwindling of government loyalists. Out of 290 deputies, 188 voted for the impeachment of Ahmadinejad's confidant, 45 voted against, 14 abstained and nine didn't vote at all. Thirty-four lawmakers failed to show up for the vote.
"Ahmadinejad will have trouble on all fronts," said Ahmad Zeidabadi, a political analyst and a well-known critic of the president. "Any big decision his government wants to execute first needs to be agreed by a hostile parliament."
The president's difficulties with parliament are also likely to complicate efforts to find a new interior minister. Lawmakers must approve any candidate for the post, which includes responsibility for organizing elections.
"As the problems become deeper, those who were supporting Ahmadinejad will try to distance themselves in the face of the June 12th presidential elections," Zeidabadi said.
Kordan, who had been interior minister for just three months, was voted out during a tumultuous parliamentary session broadcast live on Iranian state radio. He caused a storm by linking the lawmakers opposing him to foreign groups and anti-Iranian governments, often referred to here as "the enemy."
"Look how happy the enemy is that I'm being impeached. Look at the attacks to the system over this issue," he said during his defense, prompting dozens of lawmakers to boo.
"You, by your actions, are giving the enemy pretexts to attack us," responded Sattar Hedayatkhah, a former Ahmadinejad supporter.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad called the impeachment "not legal" and "unfair," and he refused to attend Tuesday's session.
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A senior Hezbollah official on Monday said the Lebanese militant organization believes that large swaths of northern Israel belong to Lebanon, far beyond the line Israel pulled back to in 2000. "The Zionist terror organizations moved the border from that of 1920 to that of 1923, and Lebanon lost seven villages and twenty farms. One must be cautious before moving the border to the Blue Line, because then Lebanon will lose millions of square meters," said 
Iran's parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impeach a cabinet minister who has been a close ally of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a political setback that reflects growing opposition among lawmakers to the president's policies. 
