Nizar Abdelkader
(General (ret), Political Analyst/Columnist in Addiyar Newspaper, Lebanon)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 5 March 2015
Introduction
On the tenth of July 2011, Israel adopted a maritime boundarie for its own exclusive economic zone (EEZ) creating an overlapping zone with Lebanon's EEZ sent to the United Nations a year earlier in July 2010. The maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel covers an area of 850 square kilometers. The significance and importance of this dispute is related to the discovery of important hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. This new dispute along with Chebaa Farms raised political, legal, and economic issues between the two countries...Read more