UN Peacekeepers Leaking Israeli Intel To Hezbollah

Here’s how this game gets played:

(1) Israel accuses UNIFIL of allowing Hezbollah to operate in south Lebanon
(2) UNIFIL says “well we obviously don’t see any of that – give us proof”
(3) Israel provides UNIFIL with details about all of the Hezbollah bases and operations that UNIFIL claims don’t exist
(4) UNIFIL passes that information to Hezbollah, which then moves those bases and operations so Israel can’t monitor or target them any more, in the process getting relatively precise information about the scope of Israel’s intelligence gathering capabilities

We’re so glad that the international community has shown up to bring peace to the region:

A day after two Katyusha rockets struck Shlomi in the Galilee, defense officials raised concerns Wednesday that information they were regularly passing on to UNIFIL and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) was also making its way to Hizbullah. According to the officials, the IDF regularly updates UNIFIL and the LAF on its assessments concerning Hizbullah’s military buildup in southern Lebanon… “This is a difficult scenario,” one official in Jerusalem said. “On the one hand, we count on UNIFIL and the LAF and therefore need to update them. On the other hand, there is always a concern that the information we supply them with will fall into the wrong hands.”

Amazing that these people – among whom are soldiers who describe Lebanon as a second homeland that must be defended from Israel and who then allow Hezbollah soldiers to somehow grab their van’s license plate and use it to lure in and kidnap Israeli soldiers – amazing that they are leaking intel. Whatever could be their motive?

Open collaborators, human shields, and useful idiots – all of them. But you know what would be a great idea? To put a UNIFIL-style international peacekeeping force in the West Bank like Secretary Rice suggested earlier this week. Because the word “peace” is in the name, so how can that possibly turn out poorly?

References:
* UNIFIL leaks to Hizbullah worry IDF [JPost]
* UNIFIL Involvement in 2000 Kidnapping Not News. Involvement of UNIFIL Soldier Who Thought of Lebanon as "Second Homeland", However, Is. [MR]
* Take Away Hezbollah’s Collaborators, Human Shields, And Useful Idiots. Disband UNIFIL Now. [MR]
* State Department: How About An Unbiased, Totally Objective International Force In The West Bank? [MR]

Previously:
* The UN Should Stay the Hell Out of Israel’s Way
* UN Building Hit in Lebanon. UN, AP blame Israel. Yawn.
* UNIFIL: We Suck. We Totally, Totally Suck.

Cross-posted to:
* Israpundit