Condolences for the Killing of Private Rooney

Text of my condolences for Private Sean Rooney's killing by Hezbollah in an ambush in south Lebanon (posted on some Irish news sites):

 

25/12/202

Please accept my heartfelt condolences for Pte Rooney's killing. I am always devastated when a foreign peacekeeper is killed in my country, like the US Marines and the French paratroopers who were killed in 1983 by the same organization that killed Sean two weeks ago. Peacekeepers are sent to Lebanon because the country is on the fault line between civilization and barbarity. The Maronite Catholic community in Lebanon holds Ireland deep in its heart because we equate what the English did to the Irish with what the Arabs have done to Lebanon. But I highly respect the Irish for keeping their language and traditions despite their adoption of English and Christianity, while we lost our Aramaic language to Arabic and our Phoenician heritage to become Arabs. Despite losing 324 brave soldiers since 1978, UNIFIL has not accomplished its mission. Its soldiers are sitting ducks who merely tally the dead and count the rockets. 44 years of UNIFIL and still no peace in south Lebanon. The UN should end this disgrace and terminate UNIFIL's mission. Private Rooney, may you rest in peace. 

UNIFIL is unpopular because it has not accomplished its mission since 1978. 44 years of UNIFIL and billions of dollars wasted on separating the Apartheid State of Israel from Yasser Arafat's PLO first (1968-1982), then Hassan Nasrallah's Hezbollah (1982 - to date), while the Lebanese government watches like a village idiot this farce unfold for decades on its own territory, and still no peace in south Lebanon. The UN knows that the Lebanese State is an empty shell, a fake non-existent entity that can't even deliver water and electricity to its people, let alone protect its own sovereignty. The Lebanese State has an army which it uses internally as a police force, but never against outsiders to secure its lawless borders with Syria or Israel. So why does the UN lie and make deals with an incompetent, inept and fake nation governed by the Mafia? In fact, it knowingly doesn't. All the deals and UN Security Resolutions pertaining to Lebanon were made between non-State actors like the PLO and Hezbollah and hegemonic and hyper-militarized State actors like Israel and Syria. Lebanon's signature on all these deals was known by the other co-signatories to be a joke. These resolutions were never implemented and the UN has wasted billions of dollars that could have been used for real needs around the world. If the UN gave the billions it wastes on Lebanon to the women of Afghanistan, they may topple the Taliban.

TERMINATE UNIFIL's MANDATE. WITHDRAW THE FORCE. 

DECLARE LEBANON A FAILED STATE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED ON THE FANTASY OF COEXISTENCE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS WHOSE CULTURES ARE INCOMPATIBLE AND SEPARATED BY CENTURIES OF EVOLUTION.

LEBANON IS NOT A GENUINE NATION-STATE ABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF. STOP BACKING THIS MONSTER. LET IT IMPLODE AND COME WHAT MAY.