#un peacekeeping

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Canadian veterans recall easing tensions in ethnically split Cyprus - National News Buzz

It was the first time that Canadian U.N. peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country’s predicament. Seared in her memory from her eight-month tour of duty on the ethnically divided Cyprus in 1986 was the fury of Greek Cypriot protesters demonstrating against the first-ever visit by a Turkish head of government to the…

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US Diplomacy and Rising Tensions in Lebanon: The Role of UNIFIL

US Diplomacy and Tensions in Lebanon As U.S. diplomacy strives to find last-minute solutions for a ceasefire in Lebanon ahead of the presidential elections, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have intensified their operations against suspected Hezbollah hideouts in southern Lebanon and Beirut. This escalation has raised concerns among the international community, particularly with the United…

[dougielombax]

Reading about UNDOF got me feeling like a Toyota Land Cruiser.

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*what*

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Yeah.

UPDATE: I can’t move.

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by Seth Mandel

In the summer of 2000, Israeli forces pulled out of South Lebanon, where they had maintained a security buffer between Hezbollah and the Israeli civilians in northern Israel. A few months later, Israel was rewarded for this gesture when Hezbollah ambushed three soldiers on the Israeli side of the border and took them captive.

The Iran-backed terrorists disguised themselves as employees of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and attached UN markings to the trucks used in the attack. The next day, UN workers tried to tow away the trucks but were stopped by Hezbollah operatives. The UN workers turned the vehicles over to Hezbollah.

But there was a twist. The UN had videotaped the scene, which was filled with evidence of the previous day’s kidnapping.

What the UN did with that tape is crucial to understanding the UN’s role in Lebanon and in shaping the conflict up to the present. With that tape, the UN did… nothing.

The news this weekend was saturated with coverage of UNIFIL blaming Israel for putting its cardboard peacekeepers in danger while the IDF responds to Hezbollah’s continued attacks. Israel, in turn, exposed the fact that the UN has allowed Hezbollah to construct tunnels and weapons depots under its nose, protecting the terrorists from IDF counterstrikes.

But all of this begins back in 2000, with that videotape.

Israel’s Labor government pleaded with the UN to turn over the recording, which could help Israel in its search for the captives. Time was, as always, of the essence: Every minute that went by put the kidnapped Israelis’ lives in more danger.

Instead of turning over the tape, the UN lied repeatedly by claiming there was no tape. Eventually, scenes from the tape leaked, revealing what everyone knew the entire time: Of course the tape existed. At that point, the UN publicly admitted they’d had the tape all along.

By then, the soldiers were dead. In 2004, Israel would trade hundreds of terrorists in Israeli jails in return for the bodies of the three soldiers.

There was some irony here: The Hezbollah terrorists dressed as UNIFIL and then UNIFIL aided and abetted their getaway and helped ensure the murder of the soldiers. What had started with terrorists impersonating UN members ended with the UN impersonating Hezbollah. The two were on the same team, cooperating in acts of profound evil. It was manifestly unclear where the UN ended and Hezbollah began.

Sound familiar? It should: It’s also the story of UNRWA, the Gaza-based UN agency that has become an adjunct of Hamas. Its members participated in the Oct. 7 attacks last year and even helped hold Israeli hostages. The head of the UNRWA teachers union turned out to be a high-level Hamasnik with ties to Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Oct. 7. We even have video of an UNRWA worker dragging away the body of a murdered Israeli alongside a Hamas terrorist. Where does one end and the other begin?

And by the way, the exact date of that Hezbollah kidnapping 24 years ago after which the UN hid the videotape and obstructed Israel’s attempts to get its soldiers back? Oct. 7, 2000.

This pattern would repeat itself throughout UNIFIL’s tenure in South Lebanon. Israel says the time has come for that tenure to end. Over the weekend, Israeli officials guided journalists along the border so they could see for themselves that Hezbollah is stronger with UNIFIL’s presence than without it.

One of those journalists, the Telegraph’s Jotam Confino, posted pictures and video of a UN compound with a lookout tower 100 yards away from a Hezbollah tunnel entrance. To state the obvious: It’s not a hole in the ground. It’s a tunnel, and constructing such a tunnel requires extremely noisy and conspicuous machinery as well as the regular presence of Hezbollah operatives. These tunnels and weapons caches along the border area were built, and are maintained, with the full knowledge of the United Nations—in fact, in full view of the United Nations.

If you approach a UN compound on South Lebanon you are probably standing above a Hezbollah tunnel or bunker. Where does one end and the other begin?

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How many personnel does each country provide to UN peacekeeping missions?

by NoChopp/reddit

[nando161mando]

White House geopolitics advisor calls for burning UN peacekeepers alive.

[muddypolitics]

(via Israel firing on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon raises international alarm)

[phaon1]

The US has urged Israel to ensure the safety of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, after Israel fired on UN bases in the south of the country

On Thursday, two peacekeepers were wounded when an Israeli tank fired on UN facilities in the south

Two more peacekeepers were injured in a separate explosion earlier - the IDF says it's investigating how it happened

Meanwhile, rescue workers are searching through rubble after two Israeli air strikes hit central Beirut on Thursday

Lebanon's prime minister says the 22 people killed in the attacks, which came with no warning, were all civilians. Another 117 people were injured. Israel has not commented

Elsewhere, the IDF says it detected around 100 rockets crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel within the space of half an hour

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One case of death due to malnutrition, two cases of miscarriage due to malnutrition.

Kidnapping of two elderly men, one of whom was being transported by the Red Cross.

No food, medicine and fuel delivered due to blockade.

Protesters threatened by peacekeepers they would be run over if they continued the protest.

This is happening in Artsakh.

The criminal responsible for the blockade is Azerbaijan. The accomplices are the Russian peacekeepers.

And Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council that is to discuss this situation today. Mad world.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

"basically true" lol.

look, I will go no further. I refuse to get into THE galidraan discourse. This is not my favorite piece of star wars fic, and i doubt I'll like it going forward. I just wanted to get a sense of who Jaster and the true mandalorians are in the only bit of media they're actually in.

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re the dilution of leftist values when it comes to the genocide of palestinians like where people who are supposedly not liberals are worrying about ICC rulings and jus in bello stuff.. im getting so frustrated seeing on twitter people like legitimately venerating peacekeepers in lebanon (specifically the irish peacekeepers bc a certain brand of leftist see the irish as genetically ideologically pure - and i imagine there is very close overlap between that kind of leftist and the ones who suddenly care about the rome statute). like i get the israelis want the peacekeepers out and i get the idea of the enemy of my enemy is my friend but like at a certain point. you cannot be holding up UN fucking peacekeepers as this beacon of hope. and maybe this is insensitive like there could easily be individual peacekeepers who are doing genuinely good work and putting their lives on the line and doing a lot more than i am. but we cannot just set aside allllllllll the horrible evil shit peacekeepers are known to have done in places like lebanon

[amazingfuntime]

The Monsoon Jungle stretched over thousands of square kilometres. Planetsea cast endless rains upon it, and all life, whether Earthborne or Planetborne, thrived there and filled the forest-still air with breathable atmosphere. Rare moments of sunshine occasionally penetrated the thick cover. The Peacekeeper scouts of +80 Sols revelled as, for brief moments, their lungs were filled with fragrant spray-rich air and the scents of alien flowers. Sunlight warmed faces that ached from overshelter. Some would succumb to Planetpox, but, for the lucky remainder, the Monsoon Jungle assumed prestine sacridity - and enticed them to believe Humankind may, tentatively, abide the garden of Planet.

[dougielombax]

It’s a few days late but still.

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Israel again attacks UN personnel in southern Lebanon

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[planetsviews]

✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️I don't know what you guys are going through right now. Every country wants to defend itself against another. I just wish for the love of one nature we all share together. We could take a step backwards and see the need to embrace peace. We can not bring back the life we have lost. Let's embrace and protect the ones we will still have.✨️✨️✨️✨️