Yeah, they should probably stop doing that. That’s horrible, and it’s not helping anything. Very bad PR.
ZERO_PORTRAIT on
Can’t believe I just read that headline lmao
Ertosi on
When you have several non-communicating groups withing a single battlefront, there are going to be unintended incidents between them.
Israel did ask them to leave in order to avoid issues just like this. They chose to stay.
The_Novelty-Account on
The mandate of UNIFIL is set annually by the UNSC, the budget is approved by the UNGA, the mission head is Spanish, and the program is run by NATO. The program is comprised of over 10,000 people from 46 different countries.
There is near universal support for UNIFIL. Striking them or near enough to them that there are casualties is insane regardless of whether or not they were warned first.
Edit: The conversation on this post seems to have devolved into whether UNIFIL is useful rather than whether Israel shooting at or close to UNIFIL buildings or members is justified. In any case, the secretariat regularly reports on what UNIFIL is doing in Lebanon and I would encourage people to read those reports and the associated UNSC resolutions before coming to an opinion on its utility: https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-documents
macross1984 on
Right now there are no love between Israel and UN. Except for US, Israel has nary a support in UN and UN have utterly failed to prevent terrorists from attacking Israel and make Resolution 1701 stick.
Right now Israel probably think of UN as nothing more than roadblock getting in the way of elimination of Hezbollah.
yqyywhsoaodnnndbfiuw on
I have generally supported Israel up to this point and have given them the benefit of the doubt, but this recent UN stuff has been at best bad optics and at worst, malicious.
Longjumping_Ebb_3635 on
“US urges”
No they don’t, they say they urge, but they don’t actually urge, there is a world of difference.
The USA massively supports everything Israel is doing, which is why they keep arming Israel endlessly.
Hastatus_107 on
“Urges”
It’s pretty clear that Israel will do what it wants and America will keep supplying it. A US citizen was killed recently and America barely mentioned it. Israel could do this every day for months and the US wouldn’t do anything.
drax2024 on
How come there are no UN troops to stop Russia in Ukraine?
Turalisj on
“Please stop committing war crimes with our weapons but also here is billions of dollars of weapons to commit war crimes with.”
Whatever801 on
Let’s see how the Israeli bots in the comments spin this one.
Conscious-Top-7429 on
Can’t wait for the US to change it! /s
golemgosho on
Why there are peacekeepers there,when there is no peace to keep?It seems by not evacuating them UN is stirring up more problems.
Raecino on
The IDF shoots at everyone in their kill zone, including Israeli hostages.
femboywanabe on
because israel always does what the USA says, and definitely not the other way around…
Befuddled_Cultist on
Israel is cool with killing Americans, hard to see them drawing the line at UN.
DeadSol on
Lol trying to tell them that is like trying to tell them to stop shooting journalists
Washington_Dad__ on
Wont mean shit until they cut the funding.
BigBrownBear28 on
Sounds like they’re only trying to keep the peace on one side
Reasonable-Sweet9320 on
Biden has been reluctant to use the leverage he has to coerce Netanyahu to make better decisions.
It’s a completely different era than today but Reagan was not reluctant to use that leverage to affect Israeli leadership decisions. And the world was better off for it. I’m a big fan of Joe Biden but I think he has not been strong enough in drawing lines of support with Netanyahu, particularly as it relates to the Gaza crisis.
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Yeah, they should probably stop doing that. That’s horrible, and it’s not helping anything. Very bad PR.
Can’t believe I just read that headline lmao
When you have several non-communicating groups withing a single battlefront, there are going to be unintended incidents between them.
Israel did ask them to leave in order to avoid issues just like this. They chose to stay.
The mandate of UNIFIL is set annually by the UNSC, the budget is approved by the UNGA, the mission head is Spanish, and the program is run by NATO. The program is comprised of over 10,000 people from 46 different countries.
There is near universal support for UNIFIL. Striking them or near enough to them that there are casualties is insane regardless of whether or not they were warned first.
Edit: The conversation on this post seems to have devolved into whether UNIFIL is useful rather than whether Israel shooting at or close to UNIFIL buildings or members is justified. In any case, the secretariat regularly reports on what UNIFIL is doing in Lebanon and I would encourage people to read those reports and the associated UNSC resolutions before coming to an opinion on its utility: https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-documents
Right now there are no love between Israel and UN. Except for US, Israel has nary a support in UN and UN have utterly failed to prevent terrorists from attacking Israel and make Resolution 1701 stick.
Right now Israel probably think of UN as nothing more than roadblock getting in the way of elimination of Hezbollah.
I have generally supported Israel up to this point and have given them the benefit of the doubt, but this recent UN stuff has been at best bad optics and at worst, malicious.
“US urges”
No they don’t, they say they urge, but they don’t actually urge, there is a world of difference.
The USA massively supports everything Israel is doing, which is why they keep arming Israel endlessly.
“Urges”
It’s pretty clear that Israel will do what it wants and America will keep supplying it. A US citizen was killed recently and America barely mentioned it. Israel could do this every day for months and the US wouldn’t do anything.
How come there are no UN troops to stop Russia in Ukraine?
“Please stop committing war crimes with our weapons but also here is billions of dollars of weapons to commit war crimes with.”
Let’s see how the Israeli bots in the comments spin this one.
Can’t wait for the US to change it! /s
Why there are peacekeepers there,when there is no peace to keep?It seems by not evacuating them UN is stirring up more problems.
The IDF shoots at everyone in their kill zone, including Israeli hostages.
because israel always does what the USA says, and definitely not the other way around…
Israel is cool with killing Americans, hard to see them drawing the line at UN.
Lol trying to tell them that is like trying to tell them to stop shooting journalists
Wont mean shit until they cut the funding.
Sounds like they’re only trying to keep the peace on one side
Biden has been reluctant to use the leverage he has to coerce Netanyahu to make better decisions.
It’s a completely different era than today but Reagan was not reluctant to use that leverage to affect Israeli leadership decisions. And the world was better off for it. I’m a big fan of Joe Biden but I think he has not been strong enough in drawing lines of support with Netanyahu, particularly as it relates to the Gaza crisis.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/ronald-reagan-wasnt-afraid-to-use-leverage-to-hold-israel-to-task/
Can Hezbollah just surrender? Why do they exist, what policies are they fighting for other than religious supremacy and Iranian colonialism?
**Translation**: U.S. wants to say the popular thing to better the democratic party’s chances of winning the election.
*Israel urges the UN to stop enabling Islamists*