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UN Peacekeepers Are Hizbullah's Best Friend
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The UN peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL had one job: Keep armed terrorists out of southern Lebanon, where they could shoot at Israel. It failed so abysmally that Israel has had to go to war to clear out the terrorists. UNIFIL refuses to fight, refuses to move, and blames Israel for putting its non-peacekeepers at risk. UNIFIL has allowed Hizbullah to entrench itself in southern Lebanon, storing arms in homes and building a network of fully stocked attack tunnels and weapons depots in preparation for an Oct. 7-style assault. Israeli troops have found a tunnel 100 meters from a UNIFIL outpost. For 11 months Hizbullah fired 8,500 rockets and missiles at Israel from Lebanon, under UNIFIL's nose. Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Oct. 1 and requested several times that UNIFIL move out of harm's way. But the peacekeepers won't budge, though there's no peace to keep. UNIFIL finally seems to have found its calling: Getting in Israel's way. France, Spain and Italy express "outrage" at the injuring of two UNFIL troops. These injuries are regrettable, but they show that it isn't safe to remain in a war zone. Where was this diplomatic energy when Hizbullah dominated the area, and used it to force the depopulation of Israel's north?