Anti-Israel European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana wants to send a United Nations peacekeeping force into Lebanon: EU solution: Int’l peacekeeping force.

A senior EU official said Monday sending an international peacekeeping force to Lebanon would be a difficult, but crucial part of an overall solution to end the country’s political instability.

EU foreign and security affairs chief Javier Solana said at the EU “we work night and day to try to resolve a dramatic problem (in a) country very close to us.”

He said deploying a multinational force “under the umbrella of the United Nations Security Council” would be a difficult undertaking, but “a real possibility.”

Why not? After all, UN peacekeepers have done a smashing job in East Timor: UN’s legacy of shame in Timor.

UNITED Nations peacekeepers have abandoned at least 20 babies fathered with poverty-stricken Timorese women.

A UN investigation has also uncovered a culture of cover-up, in which babies born to peacekeepers and sex crimes committed by UN staff in the past seven years have been kept secret because of a “fear of shame and embarrassment’ in the deeply religious country. The findings will shock the UN bureaucracy as it prepares to boost by thousands its peacekeeping force in East Timor.

A report on the investigation, obtained by The Age, recommends that a policy of zero tolerance of sexual misconduct be enforced on UN staff sent to help rebuild the country after two months of violence.

UN peacekeepers in East Timor have previously been accused of offences including child sex abuse, bestiality, and coercing women and children into prostitution. No one has ever been charged.

But the report reveals for the first time that babies born to UN peacekeepers have been abandoned without financial support. It also makes clear that the births of these children, and other instances of sexual misconduct by UN personnel, are likely to have been significantly under-reported. …

In the mountainous coffee growing district of Ermera, soldiers have left behind seven young children after earlier promising to marry their mothers, the report says. In the district of Bobonaro, four babies were allegedly fathered by two UN police and two civilian staff. …

In one of the worst instances detailed in Ms Ospina’s report, a peacekeeper from an unnamed country is alleged to have abused two boys and two girls in the enclave of Oecussi.

In early 2001, two soldiers were sent home with injured penises after allegedly attempting sexual intercourse with goats.