Posted on 07/22/2006 2:19:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has come up with a very bad idea. He wants to throw a lifeline to Hezbollah, dispatching U.N. peacekeepers to Lebanon...
Mr. Annan must explain how his peacekeepers would differ from the current U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which has failed miserably ever since it was dispatched in 1978. UNIFIL was created following the Coastal Road Massacre of March 11, 1978 -- when Palestinian terrorists... entered Israel along the Mediterranean coast and hijacked a bus. Thirty-six hostages died. In response, the Israel Defense Force invaded southern Lebanon to destroy terrorist bases there. The U.N. Security Council responded by adopting Resolution 425, calling on Israel to "immediately" withdraw from Lebanon and establishing UNIFIL for the purpose of "assisting the government of Lebanon in ensuring the return of its effective authority to the area."
In June 1982, UNIFIL failed to stop Palestinian terrorist groups from attacking Israel and forced an occupation of much of Lebanon, leading to the destruction of the Palestinian terrorist bases there. With substantial Syrian and Iranian complicity, Hezbollah supplanted the PLO as the dominant terrorist organization in Lebanon. In 1985, Israel withdrew from Lebanese territory but for a small security zone on Lebanon's southern border, required to prevent attacks on Israel. Over the next 15 years, UNIFIL was mostly worthless...
When Israel withdrew from the security zone in May 2000, UNIFIL was worthless again, as Hezbollah rushed to the border to establish a terrorist presence the U.N. forces could only observe. On Oct. 7, 2000, Hezbollah operatives used cars disguised as U.N. vehicles to kidnap and kill three Israeli soldiers. When Israel asked UNIFIL for a videotape of the cars that Hezbollah used in the kidnapping, U.N. officials lied, telling them that no such tape existed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And so t goes, with the UN being shown its own irrelevance more and more clearly each day....
dispatching U.N. peacekeepers to Lebanon...
Oh Goody! More Human Shields for the terrorists to hide behind when the Lebanese run out.
Years of UN incompetence under the corrupt terrorist appeasing leadership of Coffi Anus is on display in south Lebannon.
He should of been removed from office years ago.
Koffi Annan is a Criminal UN Mobster.
The first image that leapt to mind was those Smurfs wailing in that bombed Smurf village.
I thought UN 'peacekeepers' have been there, right? In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't they yards away from the kidnapping of the 2 Israeli soldiers from the tunnel (and the killing of 8 soldiers in the fight)?
My kids could do more than they do.
With their slingshots.
"Hezbollah's little helpers"
BBC, CNN, MSDNC
When I read the headline, I thought the story was about the NY times.
"Oh Goody! More Human Shields for the terrorists to hide behind when the Lebanese run out."
They should put the troops on the boreder of Lebanon and Syria.
This way, if something does get through, it is the UN's fault.
Yes Kofi..that's a swell idea.
Send in your silly blue helmted peacekeepers to rape the local women and create a new generation of islamo-freaks to scream "death to America" and blow themselves up in a crowded pizza place.
LIke the oil-for-food, Kofi's getting a lotta money under the table for his little work of no-nothingness.
Sorry, Kofi -- it's too late for your nonsense, you've had years to create "peace" in Lebanon and instead you allowed UN "observers" to become partners to Hezbollah. Now it's time for the Hezbo-Nazi rodents to be cleaned out. You blew it, Kofi, and now you should just STFU.
"Hezbollah's little helpers"
NYSlimes, WPO, TRB, CBSABCNBC...
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