Aug 17 2006
The Useless Nations
Here’s a shining example of why the UN is useless in its current form. It has a complete and thorough inability to deal with terrorist organizations.
Annan angered Israeli officials when he told Channel 2 on Tuesday that “dismantling Hizbullah is not the direct mandate of the UN,” which could only help Lebanon disarm the organization. Annan upset officials further when he said that deploying international forces in Lebanon would take “weeks or months,” and not days as expected.
Israeli officials said the IDF would not complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon until the international force was deployed - even if it took months - to prevent a vacuum in Lebanon that could endanger Israeli civilians. An official in the Prime Minister’s Office accused Annan of having an anti-Israel agenda.
“He has been one-sided,” the official said. “He tried to be even-handed in a situation that was clearly asymmetrical. When one side committed crimes against humanity and engaged in genocide and the other side defended itself, he cannot treat us in the same manner.”
Annan rejected charges of bias, saying, “I have been very hard on Hizbullah and condemned Hizbullah for what it has done. I have condemned Israel for what I consider excessive use of force but it doesn’t mean I am taking one side.”
As usual, the UN will do nothing to stop a terrorist organization, and instead will grant it legitimacy and say it’s doing something by “condemning” it. It shouldn’t come as a surprise because many have pretty much elevated Hezbollah to sovereign state status and have begun treating Israel and Hezbollah as equals while claiming how much it supposedly pains them to see innocent people dying on both sides.
None of this comes as any surprise to those of us who actually pay attention. The UN has passed hundreds of anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly, but could not bring itself to pass a resolution that declared suicide bombing a war crime.
I’d like some evidence of Annan being “hard” on Hezbollah, particularly in light of his refusal to destroy it. I just won’t hold my breath waiting for it.
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August 17th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
The UN, at it’s founding by Canadian Lester Pearson, was meant as an organization to bring peace to the world, not war. If the UN dismantles Hezbollah, as you appear to wish, then another group, with the same backing of the government, will emerge. Instead the UN is taking the right approach, encouraging the government there to help themselves by offering to help them dismantle the organization. I commend the UN for the offer, and will commend the government in Lebanon that backs Hezbollah if it rejects them and accepts the UN’s offer.
August 17th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
They won’t.
The UN won’t make them.
And Hezbollah will own Southern Lebanon like it does now.
Way to promote world peace.
The UN has been “encouraging” the government for almost 30 years (since 1978) and I’ve yet to see anything that remotely resembles progress.