All Entries Tagged With: "UN"

Scolding Ban Ki

Fancy that….a story involving the words “Islamic States”, “head”, and “body”, which does not also include the words “severed” and “infidel.”
Other than that, there are no surprises here.
Islamic States Chide UN Head for Criticizing Human Rights Body
After ensuring that the U.N. Human Rights Council, in its first year of operation, produced numerous resolutions condemning Israel, [...]

Gone to the Dogs

To those of you who feel I may have been unfairly singling out Spanish UNIFIL troops in my previous post, here’s some Italian troops being equally “useful.”

A Sad Individual

The Jerusalem Post reports on recently retired UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s “sadness.”
Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed great sadness on Friday that he couldn’t help resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict during his term of office.
“It is with great personal sadness that I leave office with the (Israeli) occupation now in its 40th year,” he [...]

Fighting Frogs

The French are getting testy.

French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.
 
Wednesday, several days after meeting with an IDF general in Paris to discuss what he said was a “blatant violation of the cease-fire.”
 
Last weekend, [...]

Working 9 to 5

Newsflash: The UNIFIL force in Lebanon is doing diddley squat (hat tip: Shy Guy).
Hizbullah terrorists are free to roam at night without fear of being identified by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to a report by the German paper Der Spiegel.UNIFIL commanders were interviewed by the paper, saying their function is [...]

Disproportionate Response

UN peacekeeping chief French Major General Alain Pelligrini on how UNIFIL may deal with Hizbullah terrorists on the way to attack, or even in the midst of attacking, Israel:
Contrary to Israeli hopes that the new multinational force in Lebanon will engage and disarm Hizbullah, the beefed up UNIFIL will not immediately open fire on Hizbullah [...]

UN vs IDF Smackdown

For those UN “peacekeepers” in Lebanon, the fun and games have ended. There’s serious work to be done. Like ensuring that Hizbullah disarms engaging in a confrontation with the IDF.
UN and Israeli tanks have been involved in a brief face-off on a road in southern Lebanon where the Israeli army has been setting up checkpoints.
Four [...]

Buddies

Let’s check up on our UN peacekeeping friends and see what they are up to..

A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper shakes the hand of a Lebanese Hezbollah supporter wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a Hezbollah flag as he marches in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, on his way to attend [...]

Megasense

Question: What do heavy/thrash metal group Megadeth and I have in common?
Answer: We have similar opinions on the UN.
The next Megadeth album has a title – United Abominations – but that’s about it for the time being.
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This being Megadeth, there will be some political underpinnings to the songs on ;United Abominations’. The title, in fact, [...]

UNLoved

As Annan walked smugly through the crowd, he was sure no-one had heard his slight, flatulent indiscretion. He was wrong.