Ominous signs from Israel's northern border: Hizballah is preparing for Round Two, and the UN is doing nothing about it. As usual.
"Hezbollah ‘has stockpiled rockets’ on Israeli border," by Uzi Mahnaimi Zarit for the Times Online:
HEZBOLLAH, the powerful Iranian-backed militia that fought the Israeli army last summer, has built a network of underground military bunkers under the feet of United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon close to Israel’s border.It has rebuilt its fighting capability and Israeli intelligence now estimates that it has stockpiled 20,000 rockets.
“Hezbollah will never leave southern Lebanon,” said Shaul Mofaz, the former defence minister, last week. “It’s now armed with rockets that could hit central and even southern Israel.”
Hezbollah, which was forced to move away from the border as part of last August’s ceasefire deal, has returned by stealth. “Since the Israeli forces left, Hezbollah has been building formidable military underground posts under the noses of the UN,” said an Israeli intelligence officer.
Remember that UNSCR 1701 states that the Lebanese Government is to "exercise its full sovereignty so that there will be no weapons without the consent of the Government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the Government of Lebanon."
It also calls for "full implementation of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), that require the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon."
As always….nothing from the UN.
Soon after the ceasefire agreement Hezbollah began to rebuild its positions in Shi’ite villages close to the Israeli border.“The entrance to an underground post is usually in the backgarden of a Hezbollah supporter,” said one source. “The householder receives compensation for the use of his garden.”
Modern equipment is used to sink the shafts, sometimes as deep as 70ft. Some bunkers are as wide as a football field, others can hold fewer than 10 fighters.
They are equipped with sophisticated communications equipment and many are believed to be connected by tunnels, limiting Israel’s ability to destroy them from the air.
Since last August huge quantities of arms, including Russian-made antitank missiles, short- and long-range rockets, small arms, mines and ammunition have been smuggled into Lebanon from Syria and Iran.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
Just to clarify the above story 'under the feet of the FRENCH UN soldiers'
Remember that UNSCR 1701 states that the Lebanese Government is to "exercise its full sovereignty so that there will be no weapons without the consent of the Government of Lebanon and no authority other than that of the Government of Lebanon."
There were no provisions for enforcement so of course this was going to be the outcome. All the UN advocates of 1701 knew this in advance. Very similar to our (USA) current immigration laws where we have lots of laws that make life very uncomfortable for illegal aliens and those who hire them. But these laws are very rarely enforced. If they were enforced illegal aliens would pack up and leave
UN already been paid off, we discovered this when we went into Iraq! Of coarse a slow investigation. Although I did hear the other day over billions of dollars now they are up to with payments to our enemies allies and the UN!
They are stalling and turning a blind eye so Iran can hurry and destroy Israel! step by step...they all are snugged right up to Israel right now! Some Palestinians have left! Others cannot! It is closer to that time! With the aid of Russia! Lebanon and Syria! and IRAN!!
Sounds like bunkerbuster time for the IDF.
The United Nations, like the League of Nations before it, was a wonderful concept.
The United Nations, like the League of Nations before it, should be dismantled.
Muslims will never be satisified until they are all dead....
The U.N. is a rather insignificant player on the world stage at this point.