Is the United Nations chief aware of Hezbollah being a designated terrorist group by the U.S., EU, and 60 nations, as well as the United Nations?
UN chief warns of catastrophe ‘beyond imagination’ if Lebanon ‘becomes another Gaza’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday he is profoundly concerned by escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group, and said that UN peacekeepers are working to calm the situation and prevent miscalculation.
“One rash move — one miscalculation — could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the border, and frankly, beyond imagination,” he told reporters. “Let’s be clear: The people of the region and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.”
Iran-backed Hezbollah has been firing rockets and launching drones at Israel on a near-daily basis since October 8 in attacks it says are in solidarity with Hamas since the war in Gaza erupted on October 7 with the Palestinian terror group’s devastating attack.
By saying “cannot afford to become another Gaza” he seems to be blaming Israel for being attacked by a internationally designated terrorist group operating out of a foreign nation.
Under Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to bring an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists, UN peacekeepers were deployed to monitor a ceasefire along the 120-kilometer (75-mile) demarcation line, or Blue Line, between Israel and Lebanon.
They’re doing one fuckall of a wonderful job, eh?
“UN peacekeepers are on the ground working to de-escalate tensions and help prevent miscalculation,” Guterres said.
“The world must say loudly and clearly: immediate de-escalation is not only possible – it is essential,” he said. “There is no military solution.”
Well, stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel, especially since they intentionally attack civilian targets.
How the UN emboldened Hezbollah terror regime as war with Israel imminent: ‘Complete failure’
Nearly nine months of mounting tension between Israel and the radical Islamic Shiite terror group Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon looked set to implode this week after the U.S.-designated terror organization fired hundreds of missiles and rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli military responded with air strikes deeper inside Lebanon.
As communities on both sides of the border reported widespread damage and destruction, leaders in each country ramped up the rhetoric, with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah saying Wednesday that “an invasion of the Galilee remains on the table,” and Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz declaring on X: “We are getting very close to the moment of deciding to change the rules of the game against Hezbollah and Lebanon. In an all-out war, Hezbollah will be destroyed, and Lebanon severely beaten.” (snip)
Jonathan Conricus, who previously served as the Israeli military liaison with UNIFIL, as well as the army’s special representative to the U.N., told Fox News Digital that “the whole security architecture of Resolution 1701, its framework, its implementation, and even its mandate, everything is a complete failure.”
Now a Senior Fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Conricus said the resolution “failed to prevent the military buildup of Hezbollah and it failed to prevent the conditions for a third Lebanon War, which we now see unfolding.”
Wait, did people actually think the United Nations would help the situation? Especially so many are Israel haters and supporters of Islamic terrorism, because they’re into all that multiculturalism and intersectionality, just being straight up dhimmis? The article is long, worth the read.
(JPost) “The conflict along the Blue Line between Israel and Hezbollah has gone on for long enough,” Hochstein said. “Innocent people are dying. Property is damaged. Families are shattered, and the Lebanese economy continues to decline. The country is suffering for no good reason. It’s in everyone’s interest to resolve it quickly and diplomatically. That is both achievable and urgent.”
It has to be asked if Lebanon is tired of having this terrorist organization in the nation, causing all sorts of issues.
And yet?
The UN representative of the United States said that “the path to peace does not run through placations. The only way to bring peace is to “show what we will not tolerate”, she said.
OH WAIT…that was not about Israel but about UKRAINE.
Israel is showing Hamas what they will not tolerate and that is the butchering of their people.
Words matter as they used to say on the political stage and Israel took to heart the words of the UN ambassador. Her words mattered. But evidently not to the USA which has no foreign policy other than to see how many people they can kill in a 4 year presidential term
It should be noted that the groups attacking Israel are just that: groups. None of the so-called ‘front-line nations’ have attacked, because they understand that they’d get their asses kicked. The only nation involved is Iran, which is Persian, not Arabic, and is a thousand miles away.
Iran funds Hezbollah and funds Hamas, and gives some money to the Houthis.