The United Nations bears a significant degree of responsibility for the awful state affairs along the Israel-Lebanon border, including Hezbollah’s daily rocket and missile attacks targeting Israeli towns and villages, which have forced nearly 100,000 Israelis to flee their times. The UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, has proven completely useless and Security Council Resolution 1701—which was to have seen Hezbollah disarmed and pushed away from the border area—has never been enforced and has thus not been fully implemented, with Hezbollah essentially running things in Southern Lebanon and using it as a launching pad for its assault on Israel. The UN secretary-general’s grave expressions of concern represent a stunning lack of self-awareness, coupled with some pretty impressive chutzpah. Do your damn job, António.
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