Hizballah Jerks the UN’s Leash
Charles Johnson
Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 8:45 am PDT • Views: 371
The terrorist gang Hizballah tells the United Nations how their “peacekeepers” are expected to behave: UN should stick to defending Lebanon from Israel: Hezbollah.
TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) - A top Hezbollah leader said the Shiite group would have no problems with UN peacekeepers as long as they limit their work to defending Lebanon against Israel and do not pursue other agendas.
“UNIFIL (the UN Interim Force in Lebanon) is here to protect the Lebanese and Lebanon’s sovereignty, and we want its mandate limited to that,” in which case there “will be no problems,” Nabil Qaouk, the group’s chief in the south, told AFP Saturday.
“We want the new UNIFIL to do its work in conformity with” UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which led to an August 14 truce in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
“Israel is seeking to have this force play a new role, in other words, to place it under its control,” Qaouk said. “We hope that Europe and the French will not be under American control and will be the closest friends of the Lebanese and the Arab world.”
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