Netanyahu Criticizes UNIFIL after Peacekeeper's Death
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon just days after a Spanish peacekeeper was killed by what Madrid said was Israeli fire.
In a telephone call with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon late on Sunday, Netanyahu charged that the U.N. force was failing to report on what Israel alleges is large-scale movement of weapons into south Lebanon by Hizbullah.
He also complained that a U.N. Security Council resolution, which created and expanded the number and mission of the U.N. force after Israel's bloody 2006 war with Hizbullah, had not been implemented.
"The prime minister noted that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 has not been implemented and added that UNIFIL soldiers are not reporting on the smuggling of weapons into southern Lebanon," his office said.
The resolution called for the Lebanese army and UNIFIL to deploy across the south right down to the Israeli border and for all other military forces, including explicitly Israel's, to withdraw.
A Hizbullah missile attack on an Israeli army convoy on the frontier on Wednesday killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven, prompting Israel to respond with artillery fire and air strikes on southern Lebanon.
A Spanish member of UNIFIL was killed during the exchange.
Madrid said Israeli fire killed the peacekeeper, but Israel has not officially accepted responsibility.
"The prime minister expressed his regret over the death of Spanish UNIFIL soldier Francisco Javier Toledo," Sunday's statement said, adding that there would be a joint Spanish-Israeli investigation.
Netanyahu pressed Ban to blame Iran for the attack, the statement said, as Israel is urging world powers not to sign a nuclear deal with Tehran.
Israel has threatened military action to stop arch foe Iran obtaining atomic weapons. Tehran insists its program is for solely peaceful purposes.
The Hizbullah attack was a response to an Israeli air raid that killed six of its fighters and an Iranian general on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights last month.
Israel occupied parts of Lebanon for 22 years until 2000 and the two countries are still technically at war.
The Jewish state fought a bloody war with Hizbullah in 2006 which killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and some 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.
02 February 2015, 11:41
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let the UN do a tribunal and punish the party who infringed the most resolution 1701
god bless democracy
02 February 2015, 12:13
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Same evil heart, like Ebola, Butcher, and other historical criminals.
02 February 2015, 13:06
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and certainly you stand on the side of light in the war of good against evil. right?
02 February 2015, 13:22
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hi eagleyawn, are you still earning your daily shekel by copy-pasting other people's comments?
02 February 2015, 13:47
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shame on you for being such a hateful sectarian slime, your slander and trash are not worthy of an answer.
02 February 2015, 16:39
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What a joke Netanyahu is.
He orders Resistance fighters killed, okay we are enemies after all.
But what did that UN spaniard do? He was stationed there under international law, which proves that Israel once again have no respect for that what so ever.
This will only amount to further international criticism, by the way, that spaniard is a martyr, just like all others that got killed by the zionists.
02 February 2015, 19:27
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SLA Lahd Army your demigods, welcomed Israel. Not the regular people of the South, Merkava tanks rolled over their crops and grain. It is the takfiris whom enjoys themselves in Israeli field hospitals.
02 February 2015, 12:24
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The problem with Israel is that the majority of its citizens do not want a just peace with the Palestinian and with its neighbours.
Extremism reigns within Israel and within its supporters in the US, especially AIPAC.
All US administrations and US congressmen and the vast majority of the US media stoop to the power of the Israeli lobby.
The more moderate J-Street is sidelined but also caves to the pressures of the extremists.
International sanctions have to be imposed on Israel in order to end its occupation and colonization of the rest of Palestine.
Until this happens, the Middle East will remain a troubled region that will endanger world peace and security.
02 February 2015, 20:26
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Actually most of the Israelis I met in France or in other countries are thirsty to make peace with Lebanon and to be able to know Lebanese.
Maybe American or Diaspora Jews are different and more prone to be extreme (like Lebanese living in France are far more extremists and fanatics than real Lebanese), but I can tell you with what I know that Israelis are really willing to live in peace with Arabs and especially with Lebanon.
02 February 2015, 20:31
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Peaceful Lebaneses should only care about peaceful Israelis with whom they are semitic brothers, and not about extremist Lebaneses and extremist Israelis.
03 February 2015, 07:04
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Kanaanljdid,
I am not talking about the citizens of countries who happen to be Jewish. I am talking about Israelis and pro-Israel lobbyists in the US.
Israelis elected the likes of Netanyahu, Lieberman, Bennett, etc. to lead them. When an Israeli prime minister was close to closing a real deal with the Palestinians, he was shot.
Israel today occupies, colonizes, expropriates, assassinates, destroys and breaks international laws every day and their only excuse is that they are relatively better than say Syria or Iran.
Israel is not an Arab affair. It is a global one. The West and the ex-USSR created it and they should keep it in check. Colonization and racism are not acceptable in 2015.
02 February 2015, 12:29
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not exactly true. one has to read this carefully and we notice the following:
- for Israel, the 1701 has not been implemented by the UN and the Lebanese army.
- for Israel, the UN force should have reported all arms smuggling inside the area of the 1701, which has not been done.
- while the Israelis are sorry for the death of the Spanish soldier, they have a joint Israeli/Spanish investigation about it.
in short this is preparation of the scene for the upcoming war.
02 February 2015, 13:08
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lol thanks mr israeli spokesperson, never missing a chance to share with us their point of view, as if we didnt already hear their lies a million times before.
02 February 2015, 13:23
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oh look the iranian and khomeini propaganda department is open again!
02 February 2015, 14:04
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If you want to pretend to be a deceased female, iceman..no probs.
but I will help you to better understand who truly undervalues the females you wish to be & pretend to stand up for.
The Saudis refused to get on a bus driven by a female during the Asian cup played here in OZ...
02 February 2015, 15:47
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the_roar: stop harassing nomra.jean and focus on the article. Do you ever have anything of value to offer? It seems ice-man caused you an inferiority complex. Seek help
02 February 2015, 16:27
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"the_roar: stop harassing nomra.jean"
I wouldn't dream of harassing a woman who has been dead for over 50 years.
But I would like to offer some much needed help for iceman who continually posts about women rights & who is guilty etc.
Just thought he would like to know it was the Saudi's who refused to board a bus in Australia simply because a woman was the driver.
02 February 2015, 17:02
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LOL geha, I won't even label you an israeli because i dont think an israeli could be as pro-israeli as you are in your post. Thumbs up to you for the laugh.
02 February 2015, 17:56
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no endlesstexas, I would have no reason to pick on geha if he didnt make it so easy to do so with some of the idiotic ideas he comes up with, much like you most of the time. Just saying.
02 February 2015, 19:28
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cityboy, FT, southern, mowaten, ....
if you do not like my comments.... just do not read them :)
what is it that makes you read each single comment I have? is it the fact you know it is correct and that truth hurts you so much, that instead of commenting on the substance, all you do is attack me personally.
this shows how empty you all are, and, so .... useless :)
02 February 2015, 17:28
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haha FT, you are right, definitely the husband would be geha. Look how aroused he was to be in the presence of his hero Bibi.
02 February 2015, 13:58
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& may you ice-man aka normajean, terrorist & a 1000 guest names including roukuz, be able to have a day off from Naharnet.
how was your weekend, iceman-normajean ?
02 February 2015, 14:35
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this chat explains it all
the article is about israel and majority of chats are sectarian (...chia , christian ,....)
this is the zionist plan
god bless democracy
02 February 2015, 14:58
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Mr. Netanyahu, we must write a song with the lyrics for you and your friends Hezbollah, the title must aptly be, "scratch my back and I'll scratch your back".
02 February 2015, 17:12
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six hezbollah members lost their lives just over a week ago, you call that scratching my back.
02 February 2015, 16:46
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Israel violates 1701 as much as does Hezbollah. This is the kettle calling the skillet black. He's almost as nutty as le petite generale. Like Aoun, this guy will do anything to get elected and hold power.
02 February 2015, 17:41
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"The prime minister noted that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 has not been implemented and added that UNIFIL soldiers are not reporting on the smuggling of weapons into southern Lebanon," his office said.
Netanyahu, while the UNIFIL may or may not have been implementing 1701, who the hell are you to say that? You do sorties over Lebanon everyday, in violation of 1701.
02 February 2015, 18:31
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Cityboy, unlike all you stupid posters, I criticise ALL sides when I see something I don't like. While yes, Hezbollah and Aoun are the most frequent victims of my verbal assaults, I have criticised March 14 (mostly Gemayel and Rifi), the Zionist Arab kings (as Big Qawmi calls them), the US and Israel. Just because I may sympathise with one side more than the other, that does not mean they get immunity from me.
I read something I don't like, I call them out for it. That's what I'm best at. And all you people are so stupid, naive and ignorant to blindly support a political party, and you don't acknowledge that those you support are participants in a worldwide conspiracy to keep Lebanon weak.
02 February 2015, 18:51
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Well i commend you for calling things the way you see fit, but first word of advice, never start a post with: unlike all you stupid posters. It is hard to take you serious after reading that. By the way, what makes you say we are so stupid, naive and ignorant bunch blindly supporting one political party, your words, because if you really believed that, then you wouldnt seriously be wasting your time debating us fools.
02 February 2015, 18:54
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City, you actually asked me a good question. Why do I waste my time arguing with stupid, naive, and ignorant people? Because I just do. I like debating, I like trying to convince others, I like to win arguments and silence people (you should've seen Flamey and Mystic on an article from yesterday). And most important: it's fun talking about Lebanon to be honest.
02 February 2015, 19:07
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well try to be a little more open before you call others stupid, you can learn a lot from Flamethrower, and mystic. If you are referring to them as stupid then you really need to reevaluate your self. Flamethrower puts just about any one on this board to shame. you got a long way to go to be at his level.
02 February 2015, 19:17
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Haha I'll take that as a joke, City. I've put Flamey to shame so many times, he claims his posts are deleted when in fact I shamelessly refresh my page to see if he responded. While you may agree with their views, trust me I own Flamey and Mystic. You're a much better debater than them. I say the words stupid and ignorant a lot from arguing with Flamey and Mystic all the time. It's a habit lol
02 February 2015, 18:36
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You don't acknowledge that those you support have done anything wrong. Idiots like Flamey truly believe that Aoun fought against Syria, when in fact he used Syrian-controlled areas to smuggle artillery to use in his personal war with Geagea; and when Syria blitzed Baabda, Aoun simply left his family and soldiers in the Palace as he fled in a tank to the French Embassy.
Idiots like you believe Hezbollah are the protectors of Lebanon, when in fact they are conspiring with Israel to keep Lebanon weak. They claim to be liberating Shebaa when they're clearly not (it's been 15 years), they get us in a fake Hareb Tammouz: Israel gets military victory, Hezbollah gets divine victory, and Lebanon loses from a war that didn't even involve the Lebanese army (here is when Flamey argues the LAF shot Israeli aircraft and died side by side with Hezbos).
02 February 2015, 18:44
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Wrong, Lebanon is not weak, so i cant agree to anything else you said past that. Lebanon is more respected now than the days we were simply a casino resort or a playground for rich arab johns to come and enjoy a holiday. We also have far more equality between all of lebanons sect which makes us even stronger than before.
02 February 2015, 18:50
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Hahahahahahahahahaha Lebanon is not weak loooooooooooooooool that's the joke of the day City. I'm gonna stop calling you Dahyeboy because clearly you're not in Lebanon to know the reality of the situation there. What city is in the background of your picture?
02 February 2015, 18:54
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no nickyjamie, when lebanon goes crying for a peace treaty with irael or goes begging to the amerians for aid, then you have a right to call lebanon weak, in the mean time, have some pride. got to go.
02 February 2015, 19:12
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Southern, everyone is against arming the LAF. This includes the West, the Zionist Arab kings, and Iran. They are all co-conspirators against Lebanon. What's my alternative? That's a tough question, if I had the solution I sure as hell wouldn't be on this site haha. But I'll say this, European countries like France, Germany -- countries not under as much Zionist influence as America (believe me they're not, they're starting to recognise Palestine as proof) -- these countries need to send arms to the LAF.
But part of the problem is Hezbollah and Aoun. The US and Saudi are not arming the LAF because as long as Hezbollah is the most powerful force in Lebanon, the West suspects that the LAF will share weapons or take orders by Hezbollah on how the weapons are used (a lot of LAF are Aouniyeh). Also, the political dysfunction. The West does not want Aoun to be president, because they don't want to be arming the Lebanese Aouniyeh Forces who collaborate with Hezbollah.
02 February 2015, 19:23
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"if you don't agree with HA role, then what's your alternative to fortify the LAF?, "
very simple = let hezbollah integrate the army and be under ITS orders! not the orders from iran! if you hezbi lovers were lebanese before all it is what you would ask for! let nasrallah bark as a politician not an army chief! that is all!
let hezbollah give its arsenal to the army then it will be strong!
but you do not believe in the LAF so you wouldn't like hezbis to be under its orders, plain and simple...
you just believe in the state of hezbollah not the state of lebanon!
02 February 2015, 19:30
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Peace, your idea is implausible. The West will not simply accept Hezbollah fighters being integrated into the LAF. Hezbollah fighters are radicalised militiamen, they are not members of a state's armed forces. You can't just merge the two and sing kumbaya.
02 February 2015, 19:31
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then they just should give their weapons to the army.... radicalized or not.
Don't they say they respect the army and never will shoot at it? so the army should take their weapons like all the other milita did!
02 February 2015, 19:37
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Just give their weapons to the army lol again the world doesn't work that way. Iran pays Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars to be stronger than the army, Hezbollah is not just gonna lay down their weapons lmao. And the idea of Hezbollah's rockets going to the LAF won't happen, that gives Israel a motive to destroy all of Lebanon once again (they'll say Hezbollah has infiltrated the LAF war-making decisions, which they kinda already are).
When the militias disarmed in 1990, that was a much different story. It was the end of a civil war, Syria won the war, the Ta'ef government had unrivalled authority, and all the factions (except Hezbollah) wanted to start a new country under Syrian tutelage.
02 February 2015, 19:39
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Hezbollah meanwhile wanted to continue doing their own thing in the south, in which they basically formed their own statelet.
02 February 2015, 19:40
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i know hezbollah will never give thier weapons as they do not respect Lebanon nor its institutions.... if they did they would have given their weapons a long time ago! that is what the hezbi lovers fail to see: that their beloved militia does not work in the interests of Lebanon but for their sole agenda! so when they pretend to be "patriots" it is pure hypocrisy and laughable!
02 February 2015, 19:42
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Peace, I already know all this. I was just answering Southern when he asked what my suggestion for strengthening the LAF was.
