On Sunday, The New York Post posted an article about the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. The article reminds us that United Nations Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war, was meant to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its stockpile of weapons aimed at Israel. Unfortunately, the Resolution was never implemented, and Hezbollah has been stockpiling weapons and digging tunnels ever since.
The article reports:
Since 2006, Iran is believed to have gathered some 160,000 long- and short-range rockets in position in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah has been firing them since Oct. 8 of last year, forcing tens of thousands of Israelis out of their homes in the north of the country.
On Sunday, I saw with my own eyes how this had happened. A short way inside Lebanon, the IDF showed me two Hezbollah tunnels — right near the Israeli border.
These had been built in the hope of carrying out a Hamas-style Oct. 7 attack on Israel. And also to store and fire rockets into northern Israel.
The ground in Lebanon is rocky — not sandy like Gaza — and these are serious, deep tunnels. But the tunnel shafts opened not much more than 100 meters away from a giant UN peacekeeping base and observation point.
How is it possible that the kind of heavy digging needed to create these tunnels could have happened literally right under the noses of the UN? Were they not looking? Did they even care?
The answer seems to be a very obvious “no.” They decided not to look. The international peacekeeping force has been a joke for years.
After all, what Irish or Sri Lankan soldier is going to put their lives at risk to enforce a mere UN resolution? Or do anything to protect the State of Israel from Iran-backed terrorists?
These tunnels go deep into the ground and connect with each other — just as Hamas’ terror tunnels do in Gaza. But these have an even more deadly potential.
The article also notes:
And in the middle of the forest we come across one of many Hezbollah hiding places, complete with arms dump.
The station has been recently abandoned, but it was an area that a cell of perhaps 10 Hezbollah terrorists were recently bunkering down in. They left much of their kit on the way out.
…This includes not just Hezbollah uniforms and vests, but all of the group’s other necessities. There are mines — including ones that are used to blow open walls.
Now that we know that Hezbollah was planning an Oct. 7-style attack from the north, it is clear that this was one of their ways to break into Israel, just like their friends in Hamas broke in from the south.
The Hezbollah terrorists who recently left this camp left other things behind, too: pipe bombs, other explosives, many rounds of bullets.
America paid for this lack of peacekeeping. It’s time for America to leave the United Nations and for the United Nations to leave America.
