The "internaational communities" lack of credibility in southern Lebanon

R. Emmett Tyrrell:

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The "international community" through the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has done nothing to disarm Hezbollah, though according to U.N. Resolution 1559 it was supposed to. Instead, Hezbollah has been free to militarize southern Lebanon beyond even the imagination of Israeli intelligence agencies.
It is difficult to believe Hezbollah bunkers, tunnels and missile sites could have been established without the knowledge of UNIFIL forces stationed nearby. So now Israel is to end its defensive attacks on Hezbollah, according to the desire of the "international community." Israel is undoing the mischief the United Nations allowed, but now Israel is to desist.
The "international community" has no conscience. If it has a memory, it goes unused. Israel withdrew from today's contested regions in Lebanon and Gaza with the hope and the promise those areas would become peaceful. Now they are used as launching sites for killing Israelis -- and the "international community" wants Israel to cease fire and forbear. What would it have Hezbollah do? Hezbollah has already thwarted the demands of the United Nations.
In the race to absurdity, a new world record is being set. Israel is diabolized by governments that have year after year, atrocity after atrocity, become inured to the growing barbarism of the terrorists' notion of war.
The terrorists wear no uniforms and are governed by no nation of laws, yet they expect to be treated as soldiers. They, as a matter of policy, attack defenseless civilians and use suicide bombers to kill by ambuscade. Yet they expect to be covered by the Geneva Accords. They act like madmen, yet demand to be treated as though they were rational and reasonable.
The "international community" goes along with all these nihilistic expectations and demands. Those who oppose this drift into barbarism are treated as the aggressors. Frankly by comparison with the international community of appeasers in the 1930s today's appeasers are more cowardly and corrupt.

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Perhaps that is why there is less respect for the UN as an institution, and for the international community. When it shows more respect for terrorist thugs than for legitimate self defense, there is something deeply wrong.