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has recognized Israel as having fully disengaged from
Lebanon, thus opposing the Lebanese demands for the Shebaa. The U.N., like Israel, instead considers the Shebaa Farms to be part of Syria's Golan Heights, currently under Israeli occupation, pending a future peace deal. The Syrian position on this
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government of
Lebanon collapsed on 6 February 1984 under the weight of a mounting civil war in Beirut from rival sectarian factions and Lebanon could not keep its side of the agreement. The agreement was revoked by the Lebanese parliament under the leadership of newly-elected speaker
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and provided for a staged withdrawal of
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effectively torpedoed its implementation, since
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had pledged to pull out of
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