United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, if you’re looking for who is responsible for the current situation in Lebanon, look in the mirror ( ). The UN Security Council passed a resolution, number 1701, which prohibits all armed militias from operating anywhere in Lebanon. In the words of the resolution, which passed in 2006, there shall be “no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.
” Meanwhile, UNIFIL has been present since 1978 and has done absolutely nothing to prevent armed conflicts in that area. If you want to prevent a destructive armed conflict in Lebanon, reinforce UNIFIL and give it the orders, personnel and equipment to enforce Resolution 1701. If you aren’t going to do your job, at least be quiet to avoid bringing attention to your incompetence.
emphasizes that every time our soldiers conquer a section of Gaza and then leave, Hamas just moves back in. What we should do to prevent that is to move into such areas that we have cleaned out and set up a military government over that limited area, and then repeat that in every area we conquer. In every one of those Israeli military enclaves, the IDF should take charge of the area, as well as the distribution of food and other supplies to the so-called civilians, and not allow Hamas to take the supplies and sell them or keep them for themselves.
If we replace Hamas while still penetrating Gaza militarily and clearing more and more areas above ground and below ground, we may.
