Hizballah Prepares for War, and UN Peacekeepers Do Nothing
A test their new commander will likely fail.
December 10, 2018
Hizballah Prepares for War, and UN Peacekeepers Do Nothing
A test their new commander will likely fail.
According to last year’s UN Security Council Resolution 2373, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)—the peacekeeping force created after the Second Lebanon War to keep both Israel and Hizballah out of southern Lebanon—is authorized “to take all necessary action in areas of deployment of its forces, and as it deems within its capabilities, to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities of any kind.” If anything ought to rouse UNIFIL to action, writes Elliott Abrams, it should be the IDF’s recent discovery and destruction of tunnels dug by Hizballah to move troops into the Galilee:
December 10, 2018
Blaming Your Own Misfortunes on the Jews? That’s Anti-Semitism
Of course violent attacks on ḥasidic Jews are anti-Semitic.
Celebrating Hanukkah, and Christmas, at a Druze Department Store Near Nazareth
Modeling intercommunal harmony near the birthplace of Jesus.
Rand Paul’s Confused Effort to Interfere with Congressional Support for Israel
A “grandstanding obstructionist.”
At the Heart of the Hanukkah Story is Jewish Chosenness
Hebraism vs. which Hellenism?