Look, Hezbullah—fresh meat!
BEIRUT, Lebanon Jul 28, 2006 (AP)— The United Nations has decided to remove 50 unarmed observers from posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border and relocate them with lightly armed U.N. peacekeepers, a spokesman said Friday. Also Friday, Hezbollah announced it had fired a new rocket, called the Khaibar-1, and that the rocket had struck near the northern Israeli town of Afoula, south of Haifa.
So does this mean they’re going to actually fire on Hezbullah when the terrorists take up positions by UN outposts?
“These are unarmed people and this is for their protection,” said Milos Struger, a spokesman for U.N. peacekeepers. He said the 2,000 peacekeepers in Lebanon have light weapons for self-defense.
The observer mission, known as UNTSO, had kept about 50 observers in four posts along the border. Two posts have already been abandoned: the one destroyed at Khiam on July 25, and a second near the village of Maroun al-Ras, where Hezbollah guerrilla gunfire wounded an observer on July 23.
Staff from the two remaining posts would be relocated at border posts of the peacekeeping mission, known as UNIFIL, Struger said. He would not say whether the move had been completed.
Guess not.
Is there anyone out there besides me that thinks the UN should simply evacuate their people from Lebanon completely until the war is over? The observers are utterly useless to do anything except provide cover for Hezbullah, and their lives are at risk from both sides as a result.
By the way, check out the AP bias on how the current conflict began:
The recent bloodshed erupted July 12 after Hezbollah guerrillas crossed the Lebanese border into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers. Israel retaliated with its massive assault on Lebanon, now in its 17th day.
Funny, they seem to have forgotten to point out that Hezbullah murdered three soldiers during the kidnapping attempt, then killed five more when the IDF went to recover their men. Once again, the story is that innocent little Hezbullah simply snuck across the border and “captured” two Israeli soldiers, who doubtless walked right into their great big net across the road.
Buried deep within the article, however, is this explanation:
Israel launched its offensive in Lebanon on July 12, after Hezbollah guerrillas overran the border, killing eight soldiers and capturing two others. Israeli forces opened an earlier offensive in the Gaza Strip on June 28, three days after Hamas militants attacked Israeli army post in southern Israeli, killing two soldiers and capturing another one.
The AP simply can’t bring itself to tell any truth that reflects badly on Israel’s enemies in the parts of the AP stories that actually get published in your local papers.
This is why I read other sources for my news.
“Is there anyone out there besides me that thinks the UN should simply evacuate their people from Lebanon completely until the war is over?”
YES!!! Duh! The UN should remove all of its “Peace Keepers” from everywhere, because, even thought they are armed, they never keep the peace. But, of course, the UN won’t, epsecially in Lebanon, because that would leave only unarmed Lebanese civilians for Hezbollah to use as cover.
Actually, the UN should remove itself from existance, period!