The Right State

You have to wonder what UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was thinking when he accused Israel of deliberately targeting a UN outpost in Lebanon.  The UN has been an abysmal failure in both keeping Israel safe from terrorist groups attacking south and helping the Lebanese army gain control over the southern region of the country.  The IDF has gone out of its way, to the point of endangering their own soldiers, to protect civilian lives.  The IDF has dropped leaflets warning villagers to leave because they were going to bomb.  Of course this warning also allowed the terrorist leaders to leave.  So what was Kofi Annan thinking?  The Jerusalem Post in an op-ed asks the same questions.

It is difficult at times, and perhaps today impossible, to fathom how UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan assesses events involving Israel. On Tuesday, four members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were killed when their position was hit by IDF fire. Annan reacted by declaring that the incident was “an apparent deliberate targeting by the Israeli Defense Forces of a UN observer post.”

The Post’s conclusion was this incident needs to be investigated along with the reason why the UN post was allowing Hezbollah to use the post as a shield against the IDF.

Such an investigation must determine more than just how UNIFIL troops were located in such close proximity to Hizbullah terrorists that they ended up in the line of fire. More fundamentally, it would delve into how, in complete contravention of its objectives, UNIFIL stood by without a murmur as a terrorist organization amassed thousands upon thousands of rockets whose unprovoked use has killed and wounded dozens of Israelis and precipitated the current war.

I could not agree more.  The UN ‘peace keeping forces’ is a farce, without even one success to chalk up to their name.  As tragedy unfolds across the globe, the UN idly stands by and does nothing.  Where is Annan’s apology for that?  The UN has become a haven for dictators who violate human rights.  Where is that apology?

So far, Israel has apologized for destroying the UN post and for the UN deaths, but what about the Secretary General?  According to Fox News, the UN post communicated that Hezbollah was all over the post.  Kofi Annan accused Israel of deliberately targeting the UN post when he knows the IDF does not target civilians.  His behavior is in such a position as his is inexcusable.  Annan should apologize, not only for his statements, but also for the behavior of the UN.  He should apologize for the UN’s failure to keep Israel safe violating their own resolutions.  He should apologize for allowing Hezbollah to use the people in the UN post as human shields.  And while he is at it, Kofi Annan should also apologize for the failure of the UN to accomplish anything under his ‘leadership.’

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