How hated is Israel? So hated that Jordanian teachers who came to Israel to learn about the Holocaust at Yad Vashem had to do it in secret.
Officials at Yad Vashem said the one-month stay in Israel changed the Jordanian teachers’ perception of Israel, the Jews and Judaism.
Maybe the next group can do it openly.
The UN’s tIme-FILler: The UN mandate that sent international forces to stop weapons smuggling into Lebanon is portrayed in all of its futility. Hey, guess what? If the German Navy thinks that a ship might possibly be involved in smuggling, they can ask the Lebanese to investigate the ship. Wow. Talk about your big-stick policies! The Germans are going to tell on you! Wah!
According to the formulated procedure, UNIFIL ships are merely “hailing†all ships headed to Lebanon, checking off a list of 14 questions.
“Those who are suspicious are passed on to the Lebanese,†explains Lieutenant Colonel Oliver P, commander of the war room on board the force’s flagship.
About 1,600 trade ships have been thus checked. Only three times has the suspicion of UN soldiers been raised so far. But all three cases turned out to be unrelated to terrorist activity.
Of course, the UNIFIL forces are completely ignoring the truck convoys that bring weapons daily from Syria, but that’s another story.
But they’re just “crude, homemade projectiles”: More kassam rockets landed in Sderot, narrowly missing a school and community center. The palestinians are back to launching them every day. Yep. Many rockets per day. The AP is back to pretending that rockets being launched every day aren’t a problem, because they’re “crude, homemade projectiles” that rarely kill anyone. As if that excuses them.
Don’t criticize the German Navy. They’re just complying with UNSCR 1701, which charges the UNIFIL force with assisting the Lebanese government, not with acting independently on its own initiative. Resolution 1701 is worthless in terms of restraining Hezb’Allah, despite its being hailed as a great diplomatic achievement by Olmert and Livni.