Caché derrière les attaques aériennes des États-Unis, Israël ouvre la voie au Front al Nosra, contre le Liban - LE SAKER FRANÇAIS
▻http://www.vineyardsaker.fr/2014/09/27/cache-derriere-les-attaques-aeriennes-etats-unis-israel-ouvre-voie-au-
La suite logique de cela : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/296171
article d’Asher Kaufman, chercheur israélien généralement bon connaisseur de la question de la frontière sud du Liban et en particulier des fermes sur laquelle il a publié deux articles historiques de référence
▻http://theglobalobservatory.org/analysis/823-capture-border-crossing-un-peacekeepers-syria-lebanon-isra
Dans lequel il écrit, apparemment avec un train de retard par rapport aux infos que tu rapportes :
Paradoxically, perhaps, Hizbullah could become a stabilizing force along the border, at least for the short term. Whatever the case, the Assad regime, even as a backer of—or now more precisely, backed by—Hizbullah, is seen these days in Israel as a potential stabilizer along its border with Syria. This was patently evident when on August 27, Israel allowed a war plane of the regime to attack the al-Nusra Front’s positions in Quneitra. In any other context, it would have been gunned down or chased away for flying too close to Israel.
These recent events in the Golan Heights and the Mount Hermon region remind us that, despite the apparent military successes of the Assad regime (particularly in the north), there are no signs that the civil war is close to an end. Furthermore, while the international community has paid attention to the spillover of the Syrian civil war into Iraq, particularly through the territorial gains of the Islamic State, the events in the Golan Heights indicate that not only Israel could be drawn into the war, but also Jordan. The Hashemite Kingdom is already under extreme pressure because of the 600,000 Syrian refugees it is hosting in camps that are breeding and recruitment grounds for Islamist organizations, but it could be further threatened by the military presence of the al-Nusra Front along the Syrian-Jordanian border areas.
A Review of Asher Kaufman. Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty, and Conflict. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xv + 281 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-1167-5.
Reviewed by James R. Stocker (Trinity Washington University)
▻http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41302
Atop a hill in Lebanon’s Iqlim al-Tuffah, a few miles north of the town of Nabatiyah, lies the Tourist Landmark of the Resistance, a Hizbullah-organized open-air museum that commemorates the Islamic resistance to Israel’s occupation. Visitors are shown a variety of exhibits, including a large pit called “The Abyss” containing remnants of Israeli tanks and weapons, and an underground cave hollowed out by the fighters for use as a bunker and command and control center. When this reviewer visited in late May 2014, a tour guide was on hand to provide commentary and answer questions. When asked why Hizbullah still retained its arms after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, he insisted that Israel had not yet completely withdrawn; it remained in the Shebaa Farms and seven other Lebanese villages. Once they do withdraw, he continued, the “Resistance” would have no reason to keep its arms. A tour guide is hardly an organizational spokesperson, but these comments underscore the continuing relevance of border disputes in the Lebanese-Israeli-Syrian imbroglio—the arena that between 1973 and 2006 arguably saw the heaviest fighting in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
To understand the background of such claims, readers are advised to consult Asher Kaufman’s new book about the history of what he refers to as the “tri-border region,” approximately 100 km2 of rugged terrain at the intersections of contemporary Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. This region, a comparative backwater until the middle of the twentieth century, is largely mountainous, containing the Levant’s second highest peak, Mt. Hermon, as well as sources of the Hasbani and Jordan Rivers, and the rich farmland of the Huleh Valley. Previous works such as Frederic C. Hof’s Galilee Divided (1985) have examined the Lebanese-Israeli border dispute, and this book does not detract from their value; still, no other author has done more to look at the tri-border region itself. Indeed, part of the book’s content has been published in three journal articles in the Middle East Journal and one in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.[1] This work brings these insights and more into one volume.
