nothing definitive yet but
according to the seemingly well informed source in
post 27 here
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=57657&st=25&p=741567&#entry741567
the 14 shabaa farms are all together 14 km long & up
to 2 km wide
occupying an area of about 25 sq km
& since the dejure illbsy tripoint is situated at
least 18 km from the undof triline
as the crow flies
it would therefore appear impossible for the farms to
touch both the tripoint & the triline
tho they might still easily reach one or the other
& do seem likely to span most of the intervening
distance
also
a fresh prediction that the shabaa deadlock is bound
to persist
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=23161
even as the political situation in all 3 countries
remains highly volatile
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
<aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> recent report from lebanon
>
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18730732.htm
> & more detail here
>
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060213/2006021316.html
> suggest the shabaa farms
> of which there are reportedly 14 in all that are
> claimed in varying degrees by 3 countries
> must occupy a definite & likely contiguous area on
one
> side or the other of either illb or ilsy or lbsy
> depending on how anyone prefers to look at them all
>
> this best known map
> http://www.mapi.gov.il/maps/100/zft.jpg
> shows shabaa itself as a well defined locality a
hair
> southeast of grid intersection 306x220
> or about 3km nw of the southern terminus on mount
> hermon of the defacto illbsy triline
> aka illbun or illbsyuns
> shown there as a trijunction of the magenta illb &
the
> slate blue ilun & the funny black lbun line
>
> the map also shows this shabaa to lie about 15km ne
of
> the dejure illbsy tripoint
> which is at the tip of the fingerlike proruption
just
> west of grid intersection 294x209
>
> it is possible that the 14 farms extend for 3km to
> reach the triline
> or even for 15km in the other direction also to
reach
> the dejure tripoint
>
> indeed this map suggests the farms may extend from
the
> triline to the tripoint & even beyond
>
http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/bu/hizbullah/pb/app2.htm
>
> but can anyone find a good enough map or text
> describing the farms themselves to tell if the
parcel
> of land they comprise actually abuts either the
> triline or the tripoint
> rather than just adjoining or approaching a portion
of
> the intervening boundary
>
> the topology of such a triarea interrelating with a
> triline & or a tripoint might be quite interesting &
> unusual
> if this can indeed be positively established
>
> reference map
>
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/israel_pol01.jpg
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