Gazans Continue To Violate Cease-Fire

I'm not surprised that attacks on Israel from Gaza have continued since the most recent cease-fire; I just hope that the Israelis follow through on their recent threats of retaliation.

Gaza militants launched two rockets and a mortar shell into southern Israel early Sunday, drawing a threat of "disproportionate" military retaliation from Israel's prime minister and further straining a cease-fire that ended Israel's devastating Gaza offensive two weeks ago.

Israel has the right to defend its citizens. If Hamas doesn't put a stop to the attacks on Israel, then Israel must respond. There are two options: "Disproportionate" retaliation or "proportionate" retaliation.

The world community has already condemned a so-called disproportionate retaliation, so maybe it is time for Israel to respond proportionally. If some individuals in Israel were to randomly fire mortars and rockets into Gaza at civilian targets, that would be a response that would comparatively match the magnitude of the attacks upon Israel. The Israeli government can note, as Hamas does, that the attacks are not being launched by the Israeli government, so the Israeli government isn't responsible for the proportionate retaliatory attacks on Gaza. Even the explanations and excuses could be proportionate!

Now, I don't believe that the world community or the terrorist apologists would accept a "proportionate" response, either. If a comparable attack was launched on Gaza from Israel in response to attacks upon Israel, then the world community and terrorist apologists would likely quote the Geneva Conventions and international law as to the illegality of such attacks, and demand that the Israeli government be prosecuted for allowing such "crimes against humanity," all the while neglecting similar calls for such penalties against Hamas and the other terror groups in Gaza.

Israel isn't going to win the popularity contest, and the double-standard will remain. Since no one in the world community or Gaza is going to stop the attacks upon Israel, Israel must ignore world opinion and act to protect its citizens in whatever manner it deems necessary and appropriate.

Personally, I would like to see the proportionate response I described above just to be able to tell those who oppose a "disproportionate" response that the retaliation is equal to the original attack(s), so there should be no complaints. I know that there would still be complaints, though, because Gaza doesn't have the same infrastructure that Israel has, so there would be a good probability of higher casualties in Gaza from an equal retaliatory strike.

In the end, I support the disproportionate response. The residents of Gaza do not turn on Hamas, in part, because they or their loved ones would be killed by the terrorists. Until Gazans are more afraid of the repercussions of terror attacks on Israel than they are of the repercussions of ousting Hamas and the terror infrastructure in Gaza, the attacks upon Israel will continue.

This is much like what the U.S. faces in our war against Islamic terrorists. We can tell the world that we will only use a pre-defined set of interrogation tactics in a bid to "improve our image" and claim a moral high ground. We can tell adherents to Islam that we believe that the majority of Muslims are peaceful, and that we only want to weed out the few bad seeds who have "hijacked their religion." Those and other similar platitudes will not help to find the terrorists in the midst of the Islamic community, because those in the Islamic community will continue to fear what the terrorists might do to them more than any repercussion from those of us in civilizations that follow the rule of law.

If Israel wants to stop the attacks coming out of Gaza, they should inform the Gazans that the response to any attack upon Israel will be to completely obliterate everything within a one-quarter-mile radius of the site that the attack was launched from; and then to carry out that threat if an attack is launched on Israel. A few absolutely immediate and brutal responses to the rocket attacks will get the attention of the Gazans, and they can decide to support more terror attacks, knowing fully the coming repercussions; or they can put an end to the terrorists around them in order to secure their own survival. Israel would likely never take such action, though, because they know that the world community (including the U.S.) would put harsh sanctions on Israel that would severely hamper their ability to resist attacks upon their nation from the surrounding Arab/Muslim countries.

Until Muslims are more afraid of a Western response than they are of the terrorists in their own midst, they will not turn over or turn against those terrorists. The West doesn't have the stomach for such extreme retaliatory measures yet, and I shudder to think of what sort of terror attack would create enough carnage to push the Israelis, or any other Western nation, to the point of executing a thoroughly punishing response against those sheltering and supporting Islamic terrorists.

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A Second Front For Israel

Rockets have been fired from Lebanon into norther Israel.

Lebanese militants fired barrages of rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, striking a nursing home and threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip. [...]

One of the Lebanese rockets went through the roof of a Nahariya retirement home and exploded in the kitchen as about 25 elderly residents were eating breakfast in the adjacent dining hall. One resident suffered a broken leg, another bruises, apparently from slipping on the floor after emergency sprinklers came on.

"The rocket entered through the roof, hurling the water heaters into the air. It went through bedrooms upstairs and then into the kitchen. There was a serious blast," said Henry Carmelli, the home's manager.

I'm sure that the media will promptly get to asking Hezbollah, the terror group most likely responsible for the rocket attacks in the north, exactly what the legitimate target was for the rocket that hit the retirement home. Yep, they'll certainly get right on that.

If Israel responds "proportionally" to this, and simply launches an indiscriminate mortar attack into Lebanon to randomly hit targets; will the international community will praise Israel for a simple, proportionate response, even if that proportionate response hits civilian targets with no military value? I'm guessing no, but why would anyone be surprised at the duplicity of the international community when it comes to Israel defending itself?

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U.N. School A Valid Target

Israeli forces attacked a Hamas mortar firing position on 06 January 2009. Unfortunately, the Hamas terrorists were firing from a position on or near the grounds of a U.N. school, so the Al Fakhoura School was hit by the Israeli mortar strike. While a school would not normally be a target, protected areas lose their protected status when enemy forces attempt to use them as a point of cover to launch an attack from. Further, any forces who place themselves amongst civilians become responsible for any injury that befalls those civilians.

The Israeli army said the school in Jabaliya was targeted after militants launched mortar rounds from its grounds. An army statement said Hamas "terror operatives" Imad Abu Askhar and Hassan Abu Askhar were among the dead.

Two residents of the area who spoke by telephone said they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, the Associated Press reported. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, the AP said. The residents said the two brothers were known to be low-level Hamas militants. They said a group of militants - one of them said four - were firing mortar shells from near the school.

"We face a very delicate situation where Hamas is using the citizens of Gaza as a protective vest," said Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Brigadier General Avi Benayahu.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum denied his organization was staging attacks from the school and accused Israel of carrying out "an open war on innocent civilians."

Two terrorists were found amongst the civilians that Hamas was using as human shields. Hamas, having taken a fighting position amongst the civilians, is fully responsible for their deaths. As such, it is actually the terrorists who are waging "an open war on innocent civilians."

Buried deeper in the story is a short, single paragraph about a Hamas rocket that struck a residential area of Gedera, Israel.

The Israeli offensive has failed to stop the rocket fire from Gaza into Israel. And yesterday, a rocket exploded in the town of Gedera, about 25 miles northeast of Gaza and the closest the group has come to Tel Aviv. The strike, which injured a baby, was the farthest north yet by a Hamas rocket. That distance means that 1 million Israelis are within range of rockets fired from Gaza, said Mickey Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman.

It is interesting that none of the intrepid reporters bothered to ask Fawzi Barhoum exactly what legitimate target that rocket was fired at. My guess is that the media avoids those tough questions so that they don't need to lie for the terrorists, because the fact of the matter is that Hamas isn't firing at any legitimate targets whatsoever. Hamas is simply lobbing rockets into Israel in the hopes of causing civilian casualties and terror; you know, sort of like Fawzi Barhoum said earlier, they are carrying out "an open war on innocent civilians."

Go get 'em, Israel!

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Religion Of Peace?

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The video above is from a protest in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on 30 December 2008. In it, Gaza supporters are yelling across the street at supporters of Israel, angry with Israel's decision to finally strike back at Hamas terrorists who have been indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians with rocket and mortar attacks.

The vitriol of the pro-terrorist side is a good look into the hearts of Islam. Some protesters chant, "Nuke Israel," and a Muslim woman at about 3:20 into the video yells at the pro-Israeli side to, "Go back to the oven," and "You need a big oven, that's what you need."

There is your face of tolerant Islam, presented by several followers of that so-called religion of peace. Such a perfect display of Mohammedans at their finest, right on the streets of a major U.S. city.

How long will it be until some adherent of Islam dumps a flammable liquid on someone on the pro-civilization side while another Muslim tosses the match right after the dousing?

Moderate Islam? Unfortunately for all of us, people like the Muslim woman in this video are about as moderate as Mohammedans come.

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Uninformed, Failed English, Or Recycling Old Signs?

Protesters demonstrate against the Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Sanaa, December 28, 2008. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

According to the tagline, the picture above was taken today. Read that sign again: "No Peace Unless Israel leave Gaza." I'm not sure if those protesters realize that their sign makes absolutely no sense, especially when one considers that Israel completed the full withdrawal of their troops and settlers from Gaza over three years ago.

Early Monday, a string of Israeli tanks and military vehicles rumbled across the border at the Kissufim crossing as heavy machinery moved in behind them to create a makeshift roadblock on the Israeli side of the border.

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman officially marked the pull-out at 7 a.m. (12 a.m. EDT).

After Israeli forces closed the Kissufim gate behind them, an IDF spokesman challenged Palestinian officials.

"From this point on, the full responsibility for events occurring in the Gaza Strip and for thwarting terror attacks against Israeli targets will be in the hands of the Palestinian Authority and its apparatuses," a statement said.

Gaza commander Brig. Gen. Aviv Kochavi expressed similar sentiments.

"For all that takes place in (the) Gaza strip lays on the Palestinians," he said. "The responsibility for the security of the Israelis is all ours.

"The very same soldiers that have left the (Kissufim) gate are those who are deploying now along the new line," Kochavi continued. "They are alert and they are ready to fulfill any mission and to face any challenge."

As the soldiers evacuated each settlement, Palestinians rushed in waving flags and chanting, "Allahu Akbar" or "God is great."

Maybe the protesters were never informed that Israel has, in fact, left Gaza. Maybe the protesters don't have as good a grasp of the English language as is necessary to concisely convey their message to the world in short phrases on protest signs. Maybe the protesters are just carrying an old protest sign that they used prior to 12 September 2005. Maybe the sign actually says something like, "No Peace Unless Israel leave Gaza Alone," but that key part of the phrase has been cropped out of the photo. Or maybe, just maybe, the protesters are simply inept terrorist sympathizers who would never let little things like facts get in the way of their righteous indignation over Israel defending itself following repeated rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by the "peaceful" denizens of Gaza.

I'm leaning towards the latter.

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Destroy Hamas, And Gaza If Necessary

The AP titles this story, Palestinians halt talks, killings mount, but if you read down to the tenth paragraph, you see that it's the continuous rocket attacks from Hamas-run Gaza is what is inciting the Israelis to strike back at targets in Gaza.

Israel's response to incessant Palestinian rocket fire at southern Israeli communities drew hard international condemnation. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon accused Israel of "disproportionate and excessive use of force."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected the criticism and vowed to press on with the Gaza offensive.

"With all due respect, nothing will prevent us from continuing operations to protect our citizens," he told his Cabinet.

Olmert's defense minister, Ehud Barak, said an even broader Gaza operation was in the cards, aimed at crushing militant rocket squads but also to "weaken the Hamas rule, in the right circumstances, even to bring it down."

Israel regularly clashes with Gaza rocket squads, but intensified its operations after militants fired salvos last week into Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 closer to Israel's heartland than previous targets. By striking Ashkelon, some 11 miles north of Gaza, Hamas added pressure on Israeli leaders to exact a high price for the increasing sense of insecurity felt in southern Israel.

The onslaught failed however to stop rockets from battering southern Israel. Nine were fired at southern Israel by midday Sunday, including one that struck a house in the rocket-scarred town of Sderot less than a mile from Gaza, the military said. One rocket lightly wounded four Sderot residents, Israeli rescue services said.

About 50 rockets and mortars were fired Saturday, injuring six Israelis.

Honestly, I think that the Israelis should allow unidentified Israeli "militants" to do what the unidentified Gazan "militants" are doing; firing rockets indiscriminately into Gaza. There doesn't even need to be a military target when the Israeli "militants" act, since the Gazan "militants" take the same un-condemned action daily. If it's okay for the Gazans, why wouldn't it be okay for the Israelis?

The U.N. needs to take a long walk off of a short pier, too. When Ban Ki-Moon accuses the Israeli government of "disproportionate and excessive use of force," while not condemning the illegal rocket attacks on Israel against civilian areas, there is no chance of a fair discussion of the matter. Do you think that if South Korea took a military response against North Korean targets after "incessant [North Korean] rocket fire at [South Korean] communities," Ban Ki-Moon would be condemning the South Korean government?

Hamas needs to be crushed, and if the residents of Gaza want to continue supporting Hamas, then I won't shed a tear if they are crushed with them. Hamas was voted into power by these people in 2006, and they can now reap the whirlwind of that choice.

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Pregnant Would-Be Suicide Bomber

Two women from Gaza were caught by Israel's Shin Bet before they could carry out their planned suicide attacks on Tel Aviv and Netanya. One of the two women was pregnant.

Fatma Yunes Hassan Zak, 39, a resident of Gaza, mother of eight children and pregnant with her ninth, had been responsible for an Islamic Jihad Gaza women's labor office for four years. She had been in contact with Islamic Jihad terrorists and coordinated contacts on their behalf with women who had volunteered to be suicide bombers.

Approximately three months ago, her niece, Ruda Ibrahim Yunes Haviv, 30, a resident of Gaza and mother of four children, sought her assistance in perpetrating a suicide attack. Zak, who decided to participate in the attack as well, contacted her Islamic Jihad liaison, who aided the two women in putting their plan into operation.

Fatma was ready to blow herself up while pregnant with her ninth child. The lefties would ask what kind of conditions the woman must be in to make such a tragic decision, but I say that it's just par for the course with the Palestinian/Islamic death cult.

No wonder Hamas won the election.

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ADL Upset That The Vatican Won't Appear At Memorial Libeling Pope Pius XII

The Anti-Defamation League is upset that the Vatican's ambassador to Israel, Archbishop Antonio Franco, will not be attending Israel's memorial to the Holocaust due to the false presentation of Pope Pius XII as having failed to save Jews from the Nazis.

The Anti-Defamation League called the announcement by Archbishop Antonio Franco, the Vatican's ambassador to Israel, that he would not take part in a Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem "inappropriate and insulting." Franco said he would avoid the memorial on Monday due to a photo caption in one exhibit, which he says accuses Pope Pius XII of ignoring the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust.

While I generally support the state of Israel, I think that the ADL should keep in mind that this isn't a situation of one silly caption on one little picture. Israel's official Holocaust memorial is falsely portraying one of the former leaders of the Catholic Church as a individual who paid little to no attention to the slaughter of Jews by Nazi Germany. That is a major insult to the Vatican, and to Catholics everywhere, and it should not be shocking that Archbishop Franco will be devoting his time to tasks other than smiling and nodding at an event where a Pope of the Church is being libeled.

It must be noted that Pope Pius XII and the Holy See helped to save hundreds of thousands of lives during the Nazi reign of terror, and that Pope Pius XII said that he was not more vocal because of concerns that his speaking out publicly would cost more lives than it would save. In fact, recent revelations continue to exonerate Pope Pius XII.

A report from a spy at work in the Vatican states: "Our source was told to his face by Father Robert Leibner [one of Pius's secretaries] that the greatest hope of the Church is that the Nazi system would be obliterated by the war."

La Repubblica, the newspaper that discovered the papers, said they were sent to the heads of the Stasi, after the Second World War.

The revelations they contain will help to clear the name of Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, who has long been criticised for turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. During the war, the British Foreign Office even described him as the "greatest moral coward of our age".

Pope Pius XII did not ignore the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust, and the ADL needs to get their collective heads wired to their collective tails. There are bigger fish to fry out there, Mr. Foxman, and there is no reason for you to start burning bridges with those who will work with you against Iran and others who pose a much greater threat to you and your existence than one ambassador who won't attend a single function.

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The Religion Of Peace Riots Again

Israel is doing some repair work and building a ramp, but those peace-loving Palestinians are rioting because it might get too close to what they refer to as the Porkchop Sanctuary (or maybe it was Noble Sanctuary; that chicken scribble Arabic writing is tough for us kafirs to translate). Anyway, even Canadians ended up as targets of the "sporadic protests."

Sporadic Palestinian protests, including a rock-throwing attack on a busload of Canadian tourists, broke out in Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday over Israel's construction of a ramp leading to a disputed holy site.

The demonstrations came the day after Israeli police raided the mosque compound, firing tear gas and stun grenades, in response to riots by Muslim worshippers. Protests have spread throughout the world as Muslim leaders accused Israel of trying to damage the Islamic shrines.

But angry Muslims aren't just protesting in Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria all had perpetually perturbed followers of the pedophile prophet demonstrating against this "outrage" as well. The Arab League is ticked-off; Turkey is urging Israel to avoid causing new tensions; Egypt, Jordan, and Indonesia are calling for Israel to halt their work; and Malaysia is calling for international action.

The tough guys attacked a busload of Canadians, they're protesting throughout the Muslim world, and Malaysia wants international action. All of this over some construction work? What a bunch of over-reacting morons.

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Nice Snow Job, MSM

Check out this headline, from an AP piece, as it appeared on the ABC News website (not to mention other news sources): Gaza Cease-Fire Raises Hopes for Peace. Now, if you haven't clicked on the link, see what is contained within.

The surprise truce was supposed to take effect at 6 a.m., but in the four hours that followed, 11 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israeli towns and villages and some Palestinian militants threatened to keep up the attacks.

Israel did not retaliate, saying it wanted to give the truce a chance.

"Even though there are still violations of the cease-fire by the Palestinian side, I have instructed our defense officials not to respond, to show restraint, and to give this cease-fire a chance to take full effect," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said during a ceremony at a high school in southern Israel.

Got that? Israel abided by the cease-fire, even though the Palestinians continued their attacks. What was that headline in the MSM again? Oh, yeah, "Gaza Cease-Fire Raises Hopes for Peace."

Yep. Lots of hope there. And if Israel retaliates against the Palestinians who continue to violate the cease-fire, what do you think that AP's headline will be then?

Wipe-out Gaza. It will make the world a better place.

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Iran And Syria Allegedly Violate Cease-Fire; Israel Condemned

According to Israel, a raid was executed by Israeli forces on a Hezbollah position within Lebanon in order to stop arms from being smuggled to the terror group from Iran and Syria. Kofi Annan promptly labeled the Israeli raid as a violation of the cease-fire resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 11 August 2006.

UNSCR 1701, the resolution which is the source of the cease-fire that Annan is referring to, did not only call for a cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, though. The resolution also required:

The full implementation of the provisions in UNSCR 1559 (02 September 2004) calling for all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias to be disbanded and disarmed.

The full implementation of the provisions in UNSCR 1680 (17 May 2006) calling for further efforts to have all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias disbanded and disarmed, and the restoration of the Lebanese government's control over all of Lebanon.

The prohibition of all States to allow the "sale or supply to any entity or individual in Lebanon of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts for the aforementioned, whether or not originating in their territories."

The prohibition of all States to provide any technical training or assistance to any individual or group in Lebanon in relation to the prohibited assets listed in the previous paragraph.

The establishment of a DMZ between the Litani River and the Blue Line (the border demarcation between Israel and Lebanon that the UN used to confirm that Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon in accordance with UNSCR 425) that would prohibit anyone, other than the authorized representatives of the Lebanese government and UNIFIL, to be in possession of arms or other military assets.

If the Israeli reason for the raid on Hezbollah is accurate, then there were violations of UNSCR 1701 prior to the Israeli raid.

VIOLATION OF PARAGRAPHS 3 AND 8 OF UNSCR 1701
The smuggling of arms to Hezbollah would be a violation of UNSCR 1701, paragraphs 3 and 8, since those paragraphs call for the implementation of UNSCRs 1559 and 1680 which demand the disarming and disbanding of groups such as Hezbollah.

VIOLATION OF PARAGRAPH 15(a) OF UNSCR 1701
The smuggling of arms to Hezbollah would be a violation of UNSCR 1701, paragraph 15(a), since it prohibits the supply of arms and military assets to groups such as Hezbollah.

The Lebanese Ambassador to the UN, Nouhad Mahmoud, stated before the cease-fire took effect that Lebanon was not going to disarm Hezbollah. Instead, Hezbollah would just leave the area with their arms and assets. Ambassador Mahmoud's statement made it clear that his nation was not going to adhere to all of the requirements of the cease-fire, yet Kofi Annan did not condemn this.

Iran and Syria, if arms were being smuggled from their territories to Hezbollah positions in Lebanon as Israel alleges, have violated the cease-fire agreement. Kofi Annan did not condemn their actions.

Israel may have just stopped a major violation of the cease-fire, not-to-mention taking an action which may have saved the lives of their own citizens by preventing Hezbollah from getting arms that could be used in future attacks against Israel. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev noted that Israel will not need to take these actions once the Lebanese army and international forces are active. For this, Kofi Annan finds the words and the time to condemn Israel.

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Giving Hezbollah Time To Regroup

If any Western political party issued a statement which said, "It is an open war until the elimination of all Islamic states and until the death of the last Muslim on earth," do you think the world community would call for that party be censured or to be removed from power? If any Western leader came out and said, "If they all gather in Mecca, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide," do you believe that there would be cries of condemnation, and calls for that leader to step down?

In the West, that would be an offense. Many members of Western society would be aghast at the statements, groups representing Islam in the West would be screaming to anyone who would listen, and the Islamic nations around the world would be appealing to the U.N. to do something about this flagrant call for genocide.

Those quotes, however, were not from a Western political party or a Western leader. They are the words of Hezbollah and its ever so intolerant leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. I did take the liberty of changing around the references to Israel and the Jews, but the remainder of the statements stayed intact.

"It is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the death of the last Jew on earth."
Hezbollah statement; source: The New York Sun

"If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide."
Statement by Sheik Hassan Nasrallah; source: The Daily Star

Strangely enough, the world community has allowed Hezbollah to remain in power, and there is little to make anyone believe that more will be done to force the organization to disarm and/or disband. While it is true that there is the new cease-fire agreement to the latest Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, it doesn't do much more than help to legitimize Hezbollah by putting the terror group on equal footing with recognized U.N. member states. UNIFIL hasn't been willing to do anything about Hezbollah in the past, so what is to make us believe that they are going to change now?

A prime example of the impotence of the U.N. in Lebanon occurred back in 2000. It took the U.N. 271 days to turn over a videotape showing the vehicles, and the contents thereof, which were believed to have been used in the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers on 07 October 2000. The last segment of the videotape, filmed one day after the kidnapping, shows armed individuals, believed to be Hezbollah, intercepting the vehicles that the UNIFIL forces were about to tow away. UNIFIL did nothing to stop Hezbollah from grabbing the vehicles, and made no mention of it to the world until Israel began to loudly complain that they believed that the U.N. had a videotape.

And why didn't the U.N. notify Israel of the incident between UNIFIL and Hezbollah on 08 October 2000?

The Under-Secretary-General pointed out that the UN has a duty to protect the confidentiality of its internal documents and to consider the security of its personnel. "At the same time, we understand the plight and anxiety of the families who want to know as much as possible," he said.

The security of its personnel? While I can't say for certain what the USG meant by that, I would be willing to guess that he was indicating that the U.N. was concerned that, if the tape were to be turned over to the Israelis and (most likely) be made public, then the UNIFIL forces could be in danger of retaliation from Hezbollah.

With a backbone like that, I'm sure that Hezbollah will be firing at Israel from behind UNIFIL positions shortly after the international "peace-keeping" forces are in place and the Israeli troops have withdrawn from Lebanon.

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