Are they really cut for it? You ask as if we had many choices and we selected them because they want to be in Lebanon so bad. US and France were begging other countries to send troops in after the war. They don’t want to be in Lebanon. Their only concern is not to get killed by a fanatic, and for a cause that doesn’t concern them.
PS: UN forces have tiny tiny authority to engage

ya haram ya mustapha, hoowi w el-sahayni za3laneen 3ala nafs el-shi. boo hoo boo hooo hooooo

Mustapha, first good day.

You are using the words ‘Peacekeeping’, are you insinuating that ‘peacekeeping’ involves the fact of ripping Hezbollah off its arms? (that were being launched into Israel last year while they were bombarding us? and in turn was a real nuisance to Israel as the Winograd report proves).

I am not defending Hezbollah, I’m defending UNIFIL or better said FINUL. They have gone out of their way, and somewhat damaged their relations with the US (last summer) to get deeply, I repeat, Deeply involved in Lebanon.

I don’t think the US wanted the EU to get ’so’ involved.

Dear commentators,

Please remember that this is article does not necessarily reflect the position of The Beirut Spring.

It would be ideal if you direct your comments to the article itself, not to the blog author’s perceived position.

is beirut spring a concept or a person?

hahahahahahahaha lafontaine honda, good one

just leave the UNIFIL forces alone, they come over and die for OUR stupid neverending problems that have nothing to do with any of them. We should be grateful and just shut up.

It’s ludicruous to assume that UNIFIL or any other external force would be able to disarm Hezbollah, and that’s why the mandate given to UN troops in resolution 1701 is what it is: to [i]assist[/i] the Lebanese army. The final decision to disarm needs to be a Lebanese choice and not imposed from outside. UNIFIL can help by providing troops to stand around and teach yoga, but it cannot take the initiative.

It is important to remember that the “Brussels Journal” is a Pan-European outlet that is exercising self-criticism.

Arguments like “we should shut up and be thankful” are perhaps correct, but they are out of context.

How many peacekeeping forces have we had? Not the solution, and the last cease fire and UN resolution were a mistake.

Lalebanessa, I am grateful for the individual soldiers who are there but I despise their gvmnts and the UN, they are part of the problem.

Hezbo and Syria would be not be as reckless if they did not count on UN cease fires to bail them out.

Finally re Europe etc, the EU is a project faltering in front of our eyes. Brussels may be the capital of the alraedy dying EU but its own country, Belgium, is about to break up (no govrmt for 3 months and as divided as the Lebanese).

Or Course they are - they are protecting Hez’b'allah from Israeli Aggression

Just an FYI to my Arab freinds…

Israels Nukes arent just meant to protect her from you all - they are also meant protect her from Europe

They can become a hydra in an instant

Madness! Again, Antoine Ghanem, MP, is probably killed! fuck Hezballa, fuck Syria, fuck Bashar and his sister Bushra the hooker, fuck Iran… fuck Nassrallah, fuck Khoumeini and Khamenei, gang of pedophiles.
Jews are 10 times better than these brutal Shiaa-Alawite terrorist assassins.
Mustapha, if you have damn gots you keep my post.

‘Peace for our time’

Vote Neville Chamberlain for UN Secretary General!

d-oh

another lebanese politician killed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7003191.stm

I can understand why you hate syria so much

hmm -

maybe Lebanon, Israel and the Kurds can gang tackle Syria and split her in three

Considering our three peoples can do alot more with the space… in technology, civiliity, creativity and so much more…

I dont think anyone would mind

May not be such a bad Idea ;-)

so lebanon….do you want to stay small forever ?

OUR people?? ha ha ha ha ha

go back to germany