Relations between Lebanon and israel have been poor for decades, with the extent of smoldering tensions recently exhibited when the Lebanese government refused to accept aid from Tel Aviv in the aftermath of the August 4 ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut's port, which left over 170 people dead and caused up to $15 billion in property damage.
Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun has told French cable channel BMF TV that he would not rule out a peace deal with israel if existing problems in relations between the two neighbours are resolved.
“It depends,” Aoun said, when asked if Lebanon could follow in the UAE's footsteps and sign a peace deal with Tel Aviv one day.
In his comments on the Israel-UAE peace deal on Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called it a “knife in the back” by Abu Dhabi against “Jerusalem and the Palestinian people,” and a political “favour” to both US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Problems
Aoun did not specify which problems Lebanon and Israel have yet to resolve. The countries are still technically at war with one another, with Tel Aviv occupying a 25 square km strip of Lebanese territory known as the Shebaa farms in 1978 after it invaded and occupied Southern Lebanon. The Shebaa Farms was formally annexed in 1981, although no country aside from the United States recognized the move.
In 2006, Israel and Hezbollah waged a 34 days in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights…
