UNIFIL Peacekeepers Now Actively Trying To Start A War In Lebanon

UNIFIL is all but explicitly structured to provide cover for Hezbollah. The UN drew UNIFIL peacekeepers from countries where as many as nine out of ten people oppose the existence of Israel. They watched while some UNIFIL troops embraced Lebanon as a “second homeland.” They helped cover up UNIFIL’s complicity in Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers.

UNIFIL troops have threatened to down IAF planes. They have leaked Israeli intel to Hezbollah. And they have recently begun using their resources to undermine Israeli information gathering, dealing a body blow to Israel’s warfighting capabilities.

And now those useful idiots are helping to stage potential acts of war:

The UNIFIL troops who have been stationed in southern Lebanon and given a mandate to maintain peace in the region, have in fact done the exact opposite by assisting the small group of Hizbullah supporters in their illegal border crossing into Israel over the weekend… 15 Lebanese civilians crossed illegally into Israel, shouting and waving Hizbullah flags. IDF troops spotted the group, but did not confront them as they returned to Lebanon minutes later, and without incident…

Shalev accused a contingent of Indian UNIFIL peacekeepers of having done nothing to prevent the demonstrators from crossing the border and even cooperating with the group. “[The demonstrators] stood opposite the UNIFIL force, [which did nothing,] and worse than that, according to statements made by the organizers of the demonstration, they even cooperated with them,” the letter read.

If another Lebanon war does start – and this would be the second one in a row that UNIFIL helped trigger – Hezbollah will be ready for it. Thanks to Iran and Syria they’ve piled up thousands of rockets inside homes and bunkers. UNIFIL knows about the caches. They just can’t be moved to do anything about them:

UNIFIL learned a few months ago about the cache of Katyusha rockets that exploded in the southern Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim last Tuesday, a government source in Jerusalem said. The source said UNIFIL had precise information about the cache and a number of other installations where Hezbollah is storing rockets, but that UNIFIL had done nothing…

Government officials dealing with the Lebanon issue say UNIFIL soldiers encounter armed Hezbollah fighters or are detained by them, but the incidents do not appear in the reports submitted to the Security Council. On Saturday it was reported that that area residents prevented UNIFIL soldiers from searching an abandoned building near the building that blew up last week, in which it is believed Hezbollah stored weapons, against UN Security Council resolution 1701. A Lebanese security official said dozens of civilians surrounded UNIFIL vehicles and blocked the road leading to the building. The UNIFIL forces retreated with the assistance of the Lebanese army.

But it’s OK. Because sometimes UNIFIL troops bump into tens of staged rockets pointed at Israel. So there’s probably no truth to the accusation that they’re just there to be human shields, huddling inside their bases while Hezbollah fires rockets at Israeli civilians from their courtyards in the hope that Israel will fire back and cause an international incident.

References and previously after the jump…

References:
* Take Away Hezbollah’s Collaborators, Human Shields, And Useful Idiots. Disband UNIFIL Now. [MR]
* UNIFIL Involvement in 2000 Kidnapping Not News. Involvement of UNIFIL Soldier Who Thought of Lebanon as “Second Homeland”, However, Is. [MR]
* The UN Should Stay the Hell Out of Israel’s Way [MR]
* French Delusions of Grandeur May Yet Cause International Incident [MR]
* UN Peacekeepers Leaking Israeli Intel To Hezbollah [MR]
* Great News: UNIFIL Breaking Up Israel’s Anti-Hezbollah Spy Rings [MR]
* Lebanon: Two ‘Israeli spies’ escape to Israel
* Israel: UNIFIL assisted illegal crossing [JPost]
* Israel: Lebanon blast shows ‘flagrant’ violations [WaPo]
* IDF: Hizbullah hiding rockets in homes [JPost]
* Israel: UN learned of Hezbollah arms cache months ago [Ha'aretz]
* UNIFIL finds 20 launch-ready Katyushas [JPost]
* UNIFIL Force Begins to Take Shape [MR]
* UN Peacekeepers Begged Hezbollah to Stop Using Them As Human Shields. UN, LA Times Blame Israel Anyway. [MR]
* UN Building Hit in Lebanon. UN, AP blame Israel. Yawn. [MR]