Yesterday, Fascist Hezbollah Muslim hoodlums, disguised as village "residents", attacked a UNIFIL convoy in a village in south Lebanon. An Irish soldier, Private Seán Rooney, 23, a native of Newtowncunningham in County Donegal, was killed, and three others wounded, one seriously.
It's a sad day for Lebanon to be the stage where a peacekeeper from the friendly country of Ireland is killed for the sake of peace. Because of Iranian hatred and instigation, because of the soldier's own hierarchy's incompetence, because no one dares challenge the endless status quo of ineffectiveness, because it takes courage for Antonio Guterres to admit his institution's failure. But all these bureaucrats who send soldiers on unachievable missions are cold heartless politicians with well-paying jobs that can only be justifiable by futile and deadly missions. That was how America handled the Vietnam War back in the 1960s and 1970s. Had the leaders of the US accepted their failure earlier, the lives of 50,000 American soldiers would have been spared. But rare are those leaders who have the guts to admit a mistake. Instead, they dig their heels deeper in their mistake and end up responsible for so many wasted lives.
But the ultimate victim is the country which is the object of UNIFIL's mission: Lebanon has not improved one bit because of UNIFIL. Counting the shells and the bullets exchanged by the two protagonists, as well as the tally of victims, is what UNIFIL's mission has become. Lebanon needs more than a ceasefire or a temporary cessation of hostilities. Why can't UNIFIL be a real fighting force that imposes on Israel and Syria respect for Lebanon's borders? Why can't UNIFIL be used to shoulder a re-possession by the Lebanese Army of its own country's borders with Syria and Israel? Since the late 1960s, when the cowardly Muslim Arabs led by Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya and others were defeated by Israel, they forced tiny and Christian-led Lebanon to become the sole war front with Israel. Since that time, the Lebanese Army was denied access to its own borders with the two terrorist countries of Israel and Syria. Why can't the world, which has rescued tiny East Timor from the claws of Indonesia, rescue Lebanon from the claws of filthy Israel and Syria?
Read my post from January 2022, "UNIFIL: Get the Hell out of Lebanon" [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/01/unifil-get-hell-out-of-lebanon.html] to understand why the presence of UNIFIL's forces is not only futile but has also enshrined the lawlessness along Lebanon's borders with its two aggressive neighbors:
- It never protects the residents when fighting erupts. Ten of thousands have died.
- It never brings an end to the root conflict which has festered - under the UN watch - since 1967.
- It wastes billions of dollars; and
- It exposes the soldiers of decent civilized countries (who are dispatched under the UN flag) to the barbaric behavior of Jews and Muslims with Bronze Age beliefs. As of January 14, 2022, UNIFIL has had 324 fatalities since 1978.
Doesn't anyone find it outrageous that, after 45 years of UNIFIL's existence, NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN SOUTH LEBANON. IN FACT THINGS HAVE GOTTEN MUCH WORSE ?
SO WHY IS THIS FORCE STILL ON THE GROUND?
TO MAKE PEACE, STOPPING THE FIGHTING IS GOOD, BUT NOT ENOUGH. FINDING A GENUINE SOLUTION AND IMPOSING IT BY FORCE IF NECESSARY IS MUCH BETTER.
WHO/WHAT IS UNIFIL PROTECTING? An untenable status quo? The two warring sides, i.e. ultra-religious Jewish fascist racists in Israel? And ultra-religious religious Shiite Muslim fascist racists in Lebanon?
IS IT THE MISSION OF UNIFIL TO PROTECT THE TWO WARRING SIDES? OR LEBANON?
IS THE SEDATION OF THE LEBANESE STATE INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY WITH THE PRESENCE OF UN FORCES WHAT IS REQUIRED? OR A MORE MUSCLED APPROACH TO DETER ISRAEL AND SYRIA FROM FURTHER INTERFERENCE IN LEBANON?
Once in a while we hear "nice" and "cute" stories of UNIFIL soldiers building a road, or setting up a village with solar panels, or even falling in love with local girls and getting married. How cute! But is this the point of UNIFIL's existence? Why not send a regiment of boy scouts instead? Or Salvation Army volunteers? Or Mother Teresa's nuns?
Instead of contributing to a permanent solution, UNIFIL has insidiously preserved the status quo of hostility and violence. Why is it that "good" human institutions never achieve their objectives or achieve them far too late for them to be useful? I'm thinking of the Justice system in many countries. They say, "Justice delayed is justice denied". It took nearly 20 years for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) to find a handful of Hezbollah thugs responsible for the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Yet the convicted criminals, hiding somewhere in Lebanon in Hezbollah's restricted areas, remain at large. And the STL turned out to be a cowardly form of justice, refusing to directly name Hezbollah and its sponsors, Iran and Syria, when the three operatives who were found guilty are members of the terror Hezbollah organization and are now evading sentence by hiding in Hezbollah territory inaccessible to the security apparatus of the Lebanese state.
UNIFIL: GET THE HELL OUT OF LEBANON AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.
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