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Unknown Group With Freedom Of Movement In South Lebanon And A Katyusha Stockpile Bombs Israel. No Retaliation Planned.

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Who could it be? UNIFIL - which condescendingly instructed Israel to stop complaining because UN troops were "physically patrolling every corner of southern Lebanon" - is totally baffled:

The firing of two Katyushas at Shlomi is a "severe incident but we do not plan to change the status quo," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday, the day after two 107-millimeter rockets landed in the northern neighborhood... A senior defense official said Israel held Hizbullah responsible for the attack even if the group was not directly behind the launching of the rockets. "Nothing happens in southern Lebanon without Hizbullah knowing about it," he said. In addition, the official said Israel viewed the Lebanese government as being the ultimate authority for what happens in the country. A senior UNIFIL officer told the Jerusalem Post that the force was conducting its own investigation into the rocket fire and that at this stage, it did not rule out any suspects, including Hizbullah, al-Qaida and radical groups in southern Lebanon... On Monday night, Barak told the Council for Peace and Security that Hizbullah had more rockets than before the war in 2006.

Could be anyone, really. And isn't it nice that Israel can't respond because it would disrupt Bush's visit? Wouldn't want to disrupt the era of peace that he's about to usher in. We can only hope that it will be as good as the peace deal he worked out after Lebanon II. After he promised that the Lebanese government would enforce its authority over South Lebanon and disarm Hezbollah, we haven't heard a peep from those genocidal lunatics.

This comes exactly a day after the State Department floated the idea of putting a UNIFIL-like force in the West Bank. There's probably no truth to Israel's claim that international forces serve as de facto human shields for enemy soldiers, letting them fire off potshots at Israel's vulnerable and densely packed population centers before slinking away while the international peacekeepers "investigate".

References:
* Katyushas Hit Israel Two Days After UNIFIL Commander Promises Peace [MR]
* Katyusha attack 'severe' but we won't change status quo [JPost]
* State Department: How About An Unbiased, Totally Objective International Force In The West Bank? [MR]

Previously:
* US Joins Rest Of World In Offering Biased Anti-Israel UN Resolutions
* Abbas Reverses Pre-Annapolis Position, Calls For Reconcilation With Hamas: "No Way" Fatah Is An Alternative To Hamas
* Rice Welcomes Israel's Decision To Cave On East Jerusalem. Well Fuck.

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