Posted on 25/08/06
Trying to untangle the thorny knot of Shebaa Farms
SHEBAA, LEBANON -- If there's anyone who should want to fight for the land just beyond the tree-dotted mountains that surround this town, it's Ismail Marquise.The grizzled, 71-year-old farmer is one of the few Lebanese who has ever seen the Shebaa Farms, a small and fertile patch of soil that Hezbollah says it has been fighting for years to free from Israeli occupation.
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