While the French Lead UN force is concerning itself with the very important question about whether or not they should shoot down Israeli reconnaissance flights, it seems Iran is happily resupplying Hizballah. Those French / UN boys are really on their toes, you can’t slip anything past them.
The following from Time:
Israeli military officials in Tel Aviv say that Hizballah replenished nearly half of its pre-war stockpiles of short-range missiles and small arms. But western diplomats in Beirut say these calculations under-estimate the weapons flow and that Hizballah has now filled its war chest with over 20,000 short-range missiles—a similar amount to what they had at the start of the conflict, during which the group is believed to have fired over 3,000 rockets at Israel. “The Iranian pipeline through Syria was already working during the war,” despite constant Israeli bombing raids on the roads into Lebanon from Syria, this Beirut source said. Officially, Syria and Iran deny that they’re supplying weapons to Hizballah. As for the Shi’ite group itself, when asked about receiving a new shipment of arms from Syria and Iran, a spokesman told TIME, without elaborating, “We have more than enough weapons if Israel tries to attack us again.”
I would like to remind the UN in general, and UNIFL in specific of the content of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701, passed in August 2006 which called for, amount other things, the complete disbarment of Hizballah and the blocking of any and all arms transports into the country that do not have the fully support of the Lebanese Government.
Perhaps I am missing the plot here. Could it be that UNIFIL is actually working with Hizballah, Iran, and Syria towards the destruction of Israel?
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Really, there are only two posabilities here.
- UNIFIL is working with Hizballah, Iran, and Syria against Israel
- The Generals and Leaders running UNIFIL are manifestly and completely incompetent.
Take your pick, either way they need to be shut down and shipped out. They are doing nothing at all the improve the situation, and there only actions to date have amounted to harassing and threatening Israel, who are the victims here.
[…] We see how well that has worked. So far all UN forces have accomplished since August was to harass Israeli checkpoints and reconnaissance flights. The UN should be ashamed for the state of affairs, and further blood is on the hands of the inept and cowardly French lead forces that making a mockery of job they where sent there to accomplish. […]