Sunday, August 27, 2006
What else would you expect from them?
What did you do in the war, UNIFIL? - You broadcast Israeli troop movements.
Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah "fired rockets in large numbers from various locations" and Hezbollah's rockets "were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations" are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got.
This war was fought on cable television and the Internet, and a lot of official information was available in real time. But the specific military intelligence UNIFIL posted could not be had from any non-U.N. source. The Israeli press--always eager to push the envelope--did not publish the details of troop movements and logistics. Neither the European press nor the rest of the world media, though hardly bastions of concern for the safety of Israeli troops,
provided the IDF intelligence details that UNIFIL did. A search of Israeli government websites failed to turn up the details published to the world each day by the U.N.
Inquiries made of various Israeli military and government representatives and analysts yielded near unanimous agreement that at least some of UNIFIL's postings, in the words of one retired senior military analyst, "could have exposed Israeli soldiers to grave danger." These analysts, including a current high ranking military official, noted that the same intelligence would not have been provided by the U.N. about Israel's enemies.
Sure enough, a review of every single UNIFIL web posting during the war shows that, while UNIFIL was daily revealing the towns where Israeli soldiers were located, the positions from which they were firing, and when and how they had entered Lebanese territory, it never described Hezbollah movements or locations with any specificity whatsoever...
You missed the best part of the article that UNIFIL filmed the kidnapping, torture and murder of 2 Israeli soldiers in 2000. And despite the begging of Israel and the kids' parents the UN denied having the tape or any knowledge of it - later revised to having 1 video but not wanting to help or release any information while the kids may have still been alive in order to remain IMPARTIAL
U.N wants to talk war crimes? How about the crimes of endangering soldiers by posting their whereabouts- this is the second time I've seen a story like htis- Hizbollah actually watches American broadcasts and were launching their rockets by watchign where they landed when the TV broadcast it.
I'm gonna link back to this story tomorrow- getting so sick of the hypocritical and anti-semitic media and organizations