UN Screws Israel, Dog Bites Man, Sun Comes Up....
C'mon, keeds, is anybody really surprised by this?:
What's new about any aspect of this situation? The Hezbos are being rearmed by Iran through Syria; UNIFIL is helping them do it; and the pathetic Israeli regime of Ehud Olmert is begging that same UN force to do its fighting for it and getting flipped the double bird by the UN Security Council. Another Hezbo attack southward from Lebanon with bigger, longer range rockets and missiles is inevitable, with UNIFIL "forces" serving as human shields against the obligatory Israeli counterattack. An attack which may not even be forthcoming at all after the way last summer's debacle turned out.
Admiral Ed draws the same conclusion, up to a point:
I think Ban Ki-moon and Fuad Siniora know exactly what they're doing - the former because he's an internationalist apparatchik (and therefore an ingrained appeaser) and titular head of a congenitally anti-Semitic organization, and the latter because Hezbollah effectively runs Lebanon and he doesn't dare say anything else, at least publicly, lest he find himself blown up sooner than the Syrians have him scheduled for it.
Does that make either man "personal bodyguards of terrorists and the governments that support and arm them"? That might be a tad strong. I'd characterize them as weak, cowardly fools who will always take the path of least resistance to save their own asses, and that path will always - ALWAYS - come at Israel's expense. As it pretty much has for the past three and a half millennia.
Ironic, then, that Prime Minister Olmert belongs in the same category, which makes Ed's other admonition - "Israel should insist that UNIFIL forces leave immediately. If UNIFIL won't stop terrorists from arming themselves in direct contravention to the UN's own resolutions, then they're worse than useless - they're malevolent, and should be disbanded" - a pipedream.
What the Israelis should do at minimum is give UNIFIL enough warning for an emergency evacuation and then blitz Lebanon from one end to the other and not leave a single Hezbo fragment intact larger than a small internal organ, with a hail and hearty invitation to Bashar Assad to "make their day" and eliminate the next step up the Iranian food chain at the same time. But then, that's what they should have done last summer, and they punked out to the UN instead.
Oh, they'll get another chance, alright. But it'll cost them a lot more, and it'll take somebody a lot more ballsy and competent than Olmert at the helm.
The UN Security Council will reportedly reject an Israeli request to expand UNIFIL's mandate in southern Lebanon against Hizbullah. An official Security Council vote on the matter is scheduled to take place later Thursday, however, Israeli officials already asked European members of the Council how they intended to vote and they subsequently answered that they were against such a move, Army Radio reported Thursday morning."13,600-strong" {snicker}....sorry, I can't read that phrase without laughing.
Israel wants UNIFIL troops to be granted new rules of engagement against the guerilla group, in which the peacekeeping force would be given the green light to take a more 'proactive' role against Hizbullah and expand its field of operations from open areas to cities and towns. Israel also asked that UNIFIL troops be allowed to open fire against Hizbullah operatives, and not only after they are fired upon.
According to the report, the Security Council will reject the request due to safety concerns for its personnel on the ground in southern Lebanon. The mandate of the 13,600-strong UN peacekeeping force is due to expire at the end of August.
What's new about any aspect of this situation? The Hezbos are being rearmed by Iran through Syria; UNIFIL is helping them do it; and the pathetic Israeli regime of Ehud Olmert is begging that same UN force to do its fighting for it and getting flipped the double bird by the UN Security Council. Another Hezbo attack southward from Lebanon with bigger, longer range rockets and missiles is inevitable, with UNIFIL "forces" serving as human shields against the obligatory Israeli counterattack. An attack which may not even be forthcoming at all after the way last summer's debacle turned out.
Admiral Ed draws the same conclusion, up to a point:
[UNIFIL hasn't] acted as peacekeepers; they've acted as guarantors of a future, genocidal war against Israel. Do they recognize this? Of course not. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to extend the mandate for another year. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora wants the same extension. Israel should insist that UNIFIL forces leave immediately. If UNIFIL won't stop terrorists from arming themselves in direct contravention to the UN's own resolutions, then they're worse than useless - they're malevolent, and should be disbanded.
I think Ban Ki-moon and Fuad Siniora know exactly what they're doing - the former because he's an internationalist apparatchik (and therefore an ingrained appeaser) and titular head of a congenitally anti-Semitic organization, and the latter because Hezbollah effectively runs Lebanon and he doesn't dare say anything else, at least publicly, lest he find himself blown up sooner than the Syrians have him scheduled for it.
Does that make either man "personal bodyguards of terrorists and the governments that support and arm them"? That might be a tad strong. I'd characterize them as weak, cowardly fools who will always take the path of least resistance to save their own asses, and that path will always - ALWAYS - come at Israel's expense. As it pretty much has for the past three and a half millennia.
Ironic, then, that Prime Minister Olmert belongs in the same category, which makes Ed's other admonition - "Israel should insist that UNIFIL forces leave immediately. If UNIFIL won't stop terrorists from arming themselves in direct contravention to the UN's own resolutions, then they're worse than useless - they're malevolent, and should be disbanded" - a pipedream.
What the Israelis should do at minimum is give UNIFIL enough warning for an emergency evacuation and then blitz Lebanon from one end to the other and not leave a single Hezbo fragment intact larger than a small internal organ, with a hail and hearty invitation to Bashar Assad to "make their day" and eliminate the next step up the Iranian food chain at the same time. But then, that's what they should have done last summer, and they punked out to the UN instead.
Oh, they'll get another chance, alright. But it'll cost them a lot more, and it'll take somebody a lot more ballsy and competent than Olmert at the helm.
posted by JASmius at 3:05 PM
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