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Looks like Israel is using chemical weapons against UN troops now. If the so-called "rules-based" international order existed to do anything but uphold Western interests, something might've come from this.

Full statement from UNIFIL (13 Oct, 2024):

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So, I've been seeing a few claims of late that Israel is trying to conquer and annex the southern bits of Lebanon, and I just kinda want to know what you think (of the claim and of Israel's mulitary actions in Southern Lebanon)

Personally I'm inclined to think no, sure Netanyahu and his far right buddies may dream of it, but them dreaming and them thinking they can actually do it are not the same thing, and furthermore as I understand southern Lebanon is basically controlled by Iranian regine-backed extremists/mulitants not a part of the Lebanese gov who use the territory they control to launch constant attacks on Israel and the Lebanese government is either unable or unwilling to stop them

Neccessary history and context first, @short-wooloo:

20 years ago in the summer of 2006, Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, killed eight soldiers and kidnapped two more - triggering the Second Lebanon War.

The ceasefire that ended that war was UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

The deal was simple:

The Litani River (about 18 miles north of the border) was the "Red Line."

Hezbollah was supposed to stay north of that river.

Southern Lebanon (between the river and Israel) was supposed to be a "buffer zone" containing only the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and UNIFIL (UN peacekeepers).

(Look at that red area in the map above - we'll come back to that.)

What actually happened?

Hezbollah accepted the agreement, then immediately began violating it. Over the next 18 years, they built a series of tunnels under Lebanese villages, stocked up on 150,000+ missiles, and parked their elite Radwan Force right on Israel's doorstep, south of the Litani River, routinely lobbing missiles and rockets at Israeli civilians.

Why didn't anyone stop them?

Well, who was supposed to stop them?

UNIFIL?

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon was first deployed in 1978 and its mandate was expanded after Resolution 1701 to 10,000+ peacekeepers specifically meant to monitor Hezbollah's withdrawal from the south and keep them north of the Litani river.

Even if they wanted to do the job, they couldn't and didn't.

Imagine a security guard who isn't allowed to open doors or look in bags. That's UNIFIL.

Under Chapter VI of the UN Charter, their mandate focuses on "peacekeeping" (which requires local consent), not "peace enforcement" (Chapter VII). They should be a military force - instead, they’re barely mall security.

Hezbollah understands this very well and plays on it successfully. Hezbollah just labeled everything "private property," and there have been reports of them bribing or intimidating peacekeepers to look the other way.

Can't the The Lebanese Government do anything?

The Taif Agreement, which ended the Lebanese Civil War in 1989, already called for the disbanding of all Lebanese militias - but Hezbollah was informally exempted on the grounds that it was a resistance force fighting Israeli occupation...an occupation that ended 26 years ago in 2000.

So even before UNSC Resolution 1701, there was a standing legal obligation the Lebanese state never enforced.

In 2004, Resolution 1559 reiterated the demand...and was ignored

Then Resolution 1701 was ignored in 2006.

When the Lebanese government tried to dismantle Hezbollah's rogue telecommunications network and airport surveillance in 2008, Hezbollah responded with gunfire and seized parts of Beirut.

The resulting Doha Agreement granted Hezbollah's coalition effective veto power over cabinet decisions.

Yeah. Read that again if you need to.

The Doha Agreement was basically Hezbollah’s way of saying "Nice democracy you have here, would be a shame if something happened to it...."

It legally turned Lebanon into a country where the minority (Hezbollah) can veto the majority, effectively making the 'official' government a front for the guys with the rockets who keep dragging Lebanon into war in their zeal to kill Isrselis.

That's not a government that's unwilling, exactly. It's a government that tried to act, got a gun put in its face, and then agreed to allow a terrorost organization to have formal veto power written into the political architecture...as the price of not having a civil war.

Lebanon's power-sharing system requires delicate compromises between sectarian groups, and Hezbollah's disarmament is precisely the kind of contentious issue that can blow the whole precarious arrangement apart...so it hasn't happened.

Understand: Lebanon is essentially a state held hostage. Hezbollah isn't just a militia, they're also a political party with a veto over the government and a military that is arguably stronger than the actual Lebanese Army.

Asking the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah is like asking a roommate to evict the 300lb bodybuilder who owns all the furniture, has the keys in his hands, and is holding the TV remote.

What was the result of these failures?

Hezbollah never disarmed. Instead, it built up its military assets and became the world's most heavily armed non-state actor by 2024, with an estimated 150,000 rockets and ballistic missiles.

Hezbollah turned major Lebanese cities, including the entire area south of the Litani River, into a military fortress with at least one in four houses in some areas hosting a Hezbollah base, post, weapons depot, or hideout.

And they did this right under UNIFIL's noses, as UNIFIL troops watched.

That's background - now let's talk about the last few years:

On October 8th, 2023, the day after the Hamas massacre, Hezbollah began firing guided rockets and artillery into Israel.

They attacked Israel. They started this round of violence, despite the way western media seems to suggest that Israel spontaneously and arbitrarily launched attacks across the Lebanese border.

This set off a prolonged exchange of bombardments that forced approximately 80,000 Israelis from their homes in the north.

Imagine if a militia in Canada fired rockets into Michigan every day for a year, and the US government had to evacuate the population of an entire city. How would US citizens under attack feel about that? Yeah, that's how Israelis felt and they rightly demanded their government protect them.

Israel's recent invasion (starting in October 2024) wasn't a random land grab - it was a move to physically push Hezbollah back behind that Litani River line because the "diplomatic solution" (Resolution 1701) had been dead for a decade.

Is Israel attempting to annex parts of Lebanon?

@#$% no.

The stated objective for Israel has consistently been to push Hezbollah far enough back from the border that northern Israeli towns are no longer in range, and to force actual implementation of 1701.

Remember the red area in the map above of the land between the border with Israel and the Litani River? That's the area from which as many as a million Lebanese people have been dislocated as Israel pushes Hezbollah back.

The action is not arbitrary, not targeting civilians, and would have been unnecessary if Hezbollah abided by agreements, if the Lebanese government had followed through on the obligations it agreed to, or if UNIFIL wasn't so @#&*ing useless.

Following the 2024 invasion, we saw a shaky ceasefire - but since the chaos of early 2026 (following the reaction of Hezbollah to the deaths of regime leaders in Iran) the IDF has re-entered those "buffer" positions because, once again, the guys in the blue helmets couldn't (or wouldn't) keep the peace.

The IDF has said it would remain "until Israel is certain that Hezbollah will not return to the area south of the Litani River."

That's a security posture, not an annexation posture - and the distinction matters. Israel pulled out of Lebanon in 2000 and pulled out of Gaza in 2005. In fact, in 2000, Israel worked directly with the UN to certify the 'Blue Line' as the official international border. They aren't looking to redraw the map - they’re looking to enforce the map everybody already agreed to.

The annexation framing is intended to conflate "Israel is occupying territory during a military operation" with "Israel intends to permanently incorporate that territory." It is profoundly dishonest.

The international framework created in 2006 simply never functioned. The Lebanese state was too weak and too captured by Hezbollah to enforce it, UNIFIL was too constrained and too intimidated to enforce it, and the Security Council issued strongly worded reports for eighteen years and did nothing. Israel's invasion is, among other things, a consequence of that collective failure.

Today (4/16/26), there's a ceasefire. Any bets on how long it will last while Hezbollah, Lebanon, UNIFIL, and the UNSC continue their same useless abdication of their agreements ans responsibilities?

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Because I got asked by more than one person regarding the ICJ case, where South Africa was libeling Israel, then asking for (and getting denied) an extension to find evidence for its libel. They just submitted their case, it's apparently 750 pages long (but just because they talk a lot doesn't mean they're filing anything of substance. We saw the kind of misquotes of what non-policy makers said South Africa has presented as evidence before). Israel has until July 2025 to respond. I doubt we'll have any kind of ruling until 2026...

But that's kind of the point. It takes two seconds to wrongfully accuse someone of a crime they didn't commit, it takes years to prove it wasn't committed by them, and in the meantime, the very discussion of the case in a court can be used to create the impression that the crime was indeed committed. It takes two seconds to destroy and a lifetime to fix and rebuild, and South Africa's current government, which had been accused of corruption and incompetence, has been hellbent on destroying Israel to divert attention away from its own failings. Just like the ICC's chief prosecutor, who suddenly asked for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders exactly when it turns out he needed attention away from allegations against him for sexual misconduct.

Tell me you're wrongfully accusing Jews of heinous crimes, and I'll know you've got an unclean conscience.

Oh, and this is your periodical reminder that the UN is complicit.

In fact, since I mentioned that... you know how the world is raging about the UN's "peacekeeping" force in Lebanon, UNIFIL?

Yeah, they're complicit, too. And I say this from firsthand experience. I served on the border of Lebanon. The complicity was well known.

To give you just one example, UNIFIL soldiers would regularly touch the border fence on its Lebanese side "accidentally" (it happened way too often and too regularly to be an accident). It was pretty obvious that they were doing this because they knew IDF regulations stipulated that Israeli soldiers HAD to respond in person to every such incident, no matter what. Middle of the night? Doesn't matter, we had to get out of bed and respond. A storm's raging outside? Doesn't matter, we had to go out there. We knew it was UNIFIL, and not terrorists? Still, for the sake of Israeli citizens' security, we had to go respond to each incident as if we didn't know that. It was evident that UNIFIL was at best using this little trick to harass the soldiers of the Jewish state. After all, when roughly a quarter of the adult global population is antisemitic, and the "peacekeepers" of UNIFIL came from all over the world, that antisemitism would be expressed in how members of UNIFIL would act. However, it was pretty clear to most of us that this was the best case scenario, but that most likely, it didn't end there, and that UNIFIL was doing this because it provided Hezbollah with valuable info on IDF procedures and alertness. How long did it take us to respond? How many soldiers would arrive on the scene? How would they arrive? Was this influenced by any external conditions, such as the weather? And so on... Keep in mind that Hezbollah has managed to kill and kidnap Israeli soldiers on this border more than once. This was the info that allowed those crimes.

This is just a sliver of my personal account, there are undoubtedly many articles out there on the complicity of UNIFIL. For example, as the war with Hezbollah moved into a ground operation in Lebanon, the IDF has exposed Hezbollah tunnels and command centers built right under the "watchful eye" of UNIFIL, the organization that was supposed to keep that antisemitic terrorist organization in check. (vid below is from Israeli journalist Itay Blumental, of Kann News)

Because the UN is complicit. It is rotten to the core, it is infected with antisemitism, so every single one of its branches dealing with the Jewish state is infected, too.

For all of my posts about the UN and its different branches' complicity, click here. For all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here.

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So what's the excuse this time for targeting UN outposts in Lebanon? Are we still lying about Hizbullah using it?

Funny u should ask! Uwu wots this then

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Lebanon: UN peacekeeping patrol targeted by Israeli tank, IDF blames ‘misidentification’

On Sunday, a foot patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was targeted by an Israeli army Merkava tank from a positio

According to the UN peacekeeping mission, bursts of heavy artillery hit an area just five meters away from the UNIFIL blue helmets, who had to beat a hasty retreat and take shelter in the terrain.

Mission representatives were able to contact the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) via their communications channels and ask them to stop firing, UNIFIL explained in a press release. The patrol was able to leave safely half an hour later, when the tank withdrew to IDF positions.

"Fortunately, no one was injured," the statement said, adding that the attack was a serious violation of Security Council Resolution 1701, which was adopted in 2006 in order to resolve the war between Israel and the Hezbollah militia.

In response to queries from local media, IDF representatives reportedly claimed that the attack was the result of UNIFIL troops being “misidentified” due to the weather conditions, and that it had not intention of firing on the peacekeepers.

This is the third incident of its kind in the last three months. On 2 September, IDF drones dropped four grenades close to UNIFIL peacekeepers working to clear roadblocks hindering access to a UN position near the “Blue Line”, the buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon patrolled by UNIFIL.

On 26 October UNIFIL reported that an Israeli drone dropped a grenade near a UN patrol, followed by tank fire directed at peacekeepers.

16 November 2025

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UNIFIL when Hezbollah terrorists have been digging tunnels, building military bases, storing weapons etc. right next to them for years:

UNIFIL when Hezbollah terrorists launched a rocket at Majdal Shams and murdered 12 Druze children in a football field:

UNIFIL when the IDF destroys Hezbollah weapons, tunnels, infrastructure, and terrorists:

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The UN’s History of Aiding Hezbollah

In the summer of 2000, Israeli forces pulled out of South Lebanon, where they had maintained a security buffer between Hezbollah and the Isr

by Seth Mandel

In the summer of 2000, Israeli forces pulled out of South Lebanon, where they had maintained a security buffer between Hezbollah and the Israeli civilians in northern Israel. A few months later, Israel was rewarded for this gesture when Hezbollah ambushed three soldiers on the Israeli side of the border and took them captive.

The Iran-backed terrorists disguised themselves as employees of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and attached UN markings to the trucks used in the attack. The next day, UN workers tried to tow away the trucks but were stopped by Hezbollah operatives. The UN workers turned the vehicles over to Hezbollah.

But there was a twist. The UN had videotaped the scene, which was filled with evidence of the previous day’s kidnapping.

What the UN did with that tape is crucial to understanding the UN’s role in Lebanon and in shaping the conflict up to the present. With that tape, the UN did… nothing.

The news this weekend was saturated with coverage of UNIFIL blaming Israel for putting its cardboard peacekeepers in danger while the IDF responds to Hezbollah’s continued attacks. Israel, in turn, exposed the fact that the UN has allowed Hezbollah to construct tunnels and weapons depots under its nose, protecting the terrorists from IDF counterstrikes.

But all of this begins back in 2000, with that videotape.

Israel’s Labor government pleaded with the UN to turn over the recording, which could help Israel in its search for the captives. Time was, as always, of the essence: Every minute that went by put the kidnapped Israelis’ lives in more danger.

Instead of turning over the tape, the UN lied repeatedly by claiming there was no tape. Eventually, scenes from the tape leaked, revealing what everyone knew the entire time: Of course the tape existed. At that point, the UN publicly admitted they’d had the tape all along.

By then, the soldiers were dead. In 2004, Israel would trade hundreds of terrorists in Israeli jails in return for the bodies of the three soldiers.

There was some irony here: The Hezbollah terrorists dressed as UNIFIL and then UNIFIL aided and abetted their getaway and helped ensure the murder of the soldiers. What had started with terrorists impersonating UN members ended with the UN impersonating Hezbollah. The two were on the same team, cooperating in acts of profound evil. It was manifestly unclear where the UN ended and Hezbollah began.

Sound familiar? It should: It’s also the story of UNRWA, the Gaza-based UN agency that has become an adjunct of Hamas. Its members participated in the Oct. 7 attacks last year and even helped hold Israeli hostages. The head of the UNRWA teachers union turned out to be a high-level Hamasnik with ties to Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Oct. 7. We even have video of an UNRWA worker dragging away the body of a murdered Israeli alongside a Hamas terrorist. Where does one end and the other begin?

And by the way, the exact date of that Hezbollah kidnapping 24 years ago after which the UN hid the videotape and obstructed Israel’s attempts to get its soldiers back? Oct. 7, 2000.

This pattern would repeat itself throughout UNIFIL’s tenure in South Lebanon. Israel says the time has come for that tenure to end. Over the weekend, Israeli officials guided journalists along the border so they could see for themselves that Hezbollah is stronger with UNIFIL’s presence than without it.

One of those journalists, the Telegraph’s Jotam Confino, posted pictures and video of a UN compound with a lookout tower 100 yards away from a Hezbollah tunnel entrance. To state the obvious: It’s not a hole in the ground. It’s a tunnel, and constructing such a tunnel requires extremely noisy and conspicuous machinery as well as the regular presence of Hezbollah operatives. These tunnels and weapons caches along the border area were built, and are maintained, with the full knowledge of the United Nations—in fact, in full view of the United Nations.

If you approach a UN compound on South Lebanon you are probably standing above a Hezbollah tunnel or bunker. Where does one end and the other begin?

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