On The Other Hand
Editor — exploring modern JewrySurprise! U.N. Fair
Stop the presses or hit the “refresh” button on your computer. It’s news when the world is offered a rare moment of fairness from the often anti-Israel biased U.N. decision-making apparatus.
Last week the world body’s Security Council finally agreed that the Lebanese Hezbollah had created a “serious violation” of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. That’s the document that brought a halt to the summer 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon. Some of the conditions of that resolution called for Hezbollah to disarm and to pull its forces from Southern Lebanon, which would allow the Lebanese Army to patrol in that area. Israel did fulfill its obligations by stopping hostilities and pulling troops from the often violent country on its northern border.
But ever since the conflict’s end, Hezbollah has been stockpiling a massive amount of weapons. What must be further investigated is who else helped to bring these estimated 40,000 or so missiles – more than in Hezbollah’s arsenal before the war itself – to Israel’s northern border. The Iranians have made no secret of their supplying Hezbollah with weapons that usually arrive through Damascus International Airport, implicating the compliancy of the Syrian government as well.
All this caught the world’s attention again after a major explosion on July 14 in Southern Lebanon at a Hezbollah weapon’s cache. The U.N. Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed that the stockpile belonged to Hezbollah. Even more indicting, Hezbollah sent supporters to block U.N. staff from investigating the incident.
With humor, I note that Hezbollah – responsible for repeated attacks against U.S. forces in the 1980s and Israeli ones since—likes to refer to itself not as a militia, but a political party.
Meanwhile, despite the U.N. resolution, the world must be reminded anew that not only does Hezbollah have these weapons, but that it has already proven that it is willing to use them on Israeli civilians. So the lingering question remains: What will be the next step?
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