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UN Shielded Hezbollah
By Micah Halpern

Friday July 28, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

United Nations forces are stationed in Lebanon as observers.
The burning question has been: If they are only observers, why would a UN outpost have been targeted by Israelis leaving four UN personnel dead?
Well, now we know why.

One of the victims, a Canadian major named Paeta Hess-von Kruedener left us a legacy in emails he exchanged 6 days before he was killed in an Israeli air strike. He wrote his former Canadian commander Major General Lewis McKenzie.
McKenzie gave an interview paraphrasing the email exchange.

According to McKenzie, UN observer Paeta Hess-von Kruedener wrote that: Hezbollah fighters were "running around" near the UN post using it as a "shield."
According to McKenzie, that means that Israel's bombing had "not been deliberate targeting, but rather due to tactical necessity."
"That would mean Hezbollah was purposely setting up near the UN post ... It's a tactic."

This is a gargantuan piece of evidence.
The minute Hezbollah entered and occupied the UN post it became Hezbollah territory and that makes it a target for Israeli air strikes.
Knowing that Hezbollah was using their post makes the UN complicit in the act.
Hezbollah terrorists specifically chose the UN post, much as they choose residential areas, because they are safer places to hide and launch attacks.

UN observers cannot provide safe haven, shields or refuge for soldiers or for terrorists.
UN soldiers were killed because they allowed themselves to be shields for Hezbollah.

Responsibility for the deaths lies with Hezbollah and the UN, not with Israel.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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