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Time to Resolve the Lebanon-Israel Maritime Border Dispute
Domestic politics in Israel and Lebanon could scuttle talks about their claims in the Mediterranean – and to the gas riches underneath.
With the U.S. mediator’s help, the two countries should refocus on achieving an accord that serves their mutual interest and spares them a confrontation.
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U.S.-mediated maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel have entered a perilous new phase.
The parties have been engaged for over a decade in indirect negotiations over the ownership of natural gas fields discovered, or presumed to exist, in disputed offshore territory.
Israel is reportedly on schedule to start extracting gas from the…