It’s good to know that the UN is enforcing UNSC resolution 1701, calling for the disarmament of Hezbullah. Because otherwise, Hezbullah might be three times stronger now than it was during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
Hizbullah has grown three times stronger than at the end of the Second Lebanon War, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
“They have 42,000 missiles now, which could also reach Ashkelon, Beersheba and Dimona. The radical axis of Iran, Syria and Hizbullah is becoming stronger compared to the axis of the more moderate countries,” he added.
If we didn’t have UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon, turning a blind eye to the rearmament (and the truckloads of weapons coming in from Syria), things might be even worse than they were two and a half years ago.
As for Hizbullah’s recent exercises in southern Lebanon, Barak said this proves that UN Resolution 1701 is not working.
“Hizbullah’s involvement in the state of Lebanon, this identity, exposes Lebanon and its infrastructures to deeper damage in case of a future conflict,” he noted.
I’m so happy that UN is concentrating on the important things, like a day of mourning for the Palestinians to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UN partition of the British Mandate. It’s great that Nobel Peace Prize winners are calling for the expulsion of Israel from the UN, but not a nation that has taken an armed terrorist group, responsible for the deaths of Americans and Israelis the world over, into their government and made them legitimate—even as they regularly threaten to use their weapons to destroy Israel.
Yes, just another day in Israeli Double Standard Time.