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More UN impotence
14 July, 2010
Nothing better illustrates the impotence of the UN, and the folly of other nations relying on it, than the current build up of Hezbollah strength in southern Lebanon. In recent weeks, the Iranian backed terror group has massed up to 20,000 troops on Israel’s border in clear defiance of UN Resolution 1701 which has called for Hezbullah to be disarmed. In 4 years, neither Lebanese nor French forces have done any such thing. Under the watchful eye of ‘peacekeepers,’ the terrorist militia has been busy replenishing its strength at every opportunity. All that the UN could do in response was pass a somewhat lily livered resolution, calling for the ‘safety of UNIFIL and United Nations personnel’ to be respected. I am sure Tehran’s ayatollahs were quaking in their boots!
With its entrenched culture of appeasing tyranny, the UN has helped to guarantee another Middle East war. But the next war will be much more serious than the last. This is because once again the League of malevolent tyranny (sorry, UN) has looked the other way as Hezbullah has quietly imported a vast quantity of weapons into Lebanon. They are now believed to have some 40,000 rockets and missiles throughout Lebanon. Among these are up to 1,400 longer range scuds, each of which could bring down apartment blocks in Tel Aviv. The civilian death toll from such a sustained missile attack would surely dwarf that from the 2006 war and induce an unprecedented sense of vulnerability. Israel says it has made preparations for a future conflict with Hezbullah, a war that could, in the words of one general, erupt in a day or in a year. Let us hope so; this will be no ordinary skirmish.
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