Posted on 04/27/2008 7:44:59 PM PDT by Flavius
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is intentionally concealing information about Hezbollah activities south of the Litani River in Lebanon to avoid conflict with the group, senior sources in Jerusalem have said. In the last six months there have been at least four cases in which UNIFIL soldiers identified armed Hezbollah operatives, but did nothing and did not submit full reports on the incidents to the UN Security Council.
The Israel Defense Forces and the Foreign Ministry are reportedly very angry about UNIFIL's actions in recent months, especially about the fact that its commander, Major General Claudio Graziano, is said to be leniently interpreting his mission, as assigned by Security Council Resolution 1701, passed at the end of the Second Lebanon War.
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Peacekeepers? They clearly consider themselves to be semi-hostages.
They don’t inconvenience Hezbollah, and in return none of them get hurt.
So remind me, why have them there in the first place? Why even bother to give them guns and military uniforms?
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Israel: UNIFIL is hiding information about Hezbollah from Security Council
haaretz ^ | 28/04/2008 | By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
This would be a real story, if we didn’t know this was the certain outcome for the last couple of years.
If the U.N. is involved, it is either going to crap on Israel or the U.S. If they can manage it, they’ll crap on both.
When are we going to get out of that organization and kick it’s ass all the way to the Indian Ocean?
UN troops erect barbed wire on Lebanon-Israel border
http://www.reliefweb.int
Posted on 04/10/2008 7:39:00 AM PDT by jhpigott
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