I mean after the UNRWA BS I sorta don’t blame the Israelis. At the same time though the Israelis are pretty freakin trigger happy
Vegeta9001 on
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.
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.
npquest on
Time to revisit the UNIFIL function and budget…. Spending $1/2B/year to have human shield for Hezbollah and an obstacle for Israel is pretty expensive.
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.
FruityPebelz on
According to the UN, the Lebanon “UN peacekeepers”are selected from the following by their own government:
“Individual Police Officers (IPO): About one third of police officers are nominated by their government to serve the United Nations for a period of up to two years. …
Formed police Units (FPUs): About two thirds of all police are deployed as a trained and equipped, cohesive unit.”
drax2024 on
How come there are no UN troops to stop Russia in Ukraine?
NavyDean on
The US should just be a big boy and deploy US troops to the UN base to show that it stands in solidarity with peace and security, rather than letting Israel embarrass America before the elections with Netanyahu’s love affair.
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
meatshieldjim on
A weird thing would be Israel attacking a NATO country.
BigBrownBear28 on
Sounds like they’re only trying to keep the peace on one side
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I mean after the UNRWA BS I sorta don’t blame the Israelis. At the same time though the Israelis are pretty freakin trigger happy
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.
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.
Time to revisit the UNIFIL function and budget…. Spending $1/2B/year to have human shield for Hezbollah and an obstacle for Israel is pretty expensive.
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.
According to the UN, the Lebanon “UN peacekeepers”are selected from the following by their own government:
“Individual Police Officers (IPO): About one third of police officers are nominated by their government to serve the United Nations for a period of up to two years. …
Formed police Units (FPUs): About two thirds of all police are deployed as a trained and equipped, cohesive unit.”
How come there are no UN troops to stop Russia in Ukraine?
The US should just be a big boy and deploy US troops to the UN base to show that it stands in solidarity with peace and security, rather than letting Israel embarrass America before the elections with Netanyahu’s love affair.
“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
A weird thing would be Israel attacking a NATO country.
Sounds like they’re only trying to keep the peace on one side