Another UN ‘Success Story’
Israel is growingly concerned with the possibility that UNIFIL, the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon, is headed towards collapse with a French decision this week to withdraw a significant number of its troops.
Following the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Israel succeeded in getting a number of European countries to contribute soldiers to the peacekeeping force, whose mandate was also beefed up as part of an international effort to prevent Hezbollah’s rearmament.
They’re leaving because of all of that successful prevention of Hezbollah re-arming.
Those aren’t 50,000 rockets, those are exploding pine trees.