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Beastly Boy

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6. If this is the only defense you can offer UNIFIL on the basis of Resolution 1701, you get a prize!

Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:10 PM

Oct 2024

This is absolutely true, there is nothing in the resolution that authorizes UNIFIL to go bombing and shooting up the place.

But failing at their numerous missions that ARE included in the Resolution? No comment, right?

Sure UNIFIL does lots of things. It also doesn't do lots of things. Stating failures doesn't detract from failures, especially when contrasted with abject absence of successes not nearly as monumental as their failures. And this contrast is not at all mitigated by what Israel does or doesn't do. Hezbollah, and not the Lebanese army, is in control of the South of Lebanon.

Exactly the opposite of what Resolution 1701 called for. And that is sure as hell not Israel's fault, no matter how you spin it.

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The role of UNIFIL seems to be misunderstood by many and so [View all] moniss Oct 2024 OP

Thanks for posting this. Eko Oct 2024 #1

UNIFIL is tasked with, per the actual resolutions Mosby Oct 2024 #2

That is a general statement rather than moniss Oct 2024 #3

I have a bad habit of checking the sources to verify information, and it appears that Resolution 1701 expected UNIFIL Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #4

Once again there is no authorization for UNIFIL to moniss Oct 2024 #5

If this is the only defense you can offer UNIFIL on the basis of Resolution 1701, you get a prize! Beastly Boy Oct 2024 #6

Their reports moniss Oct 2024 #7