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That was not their job. Their job is to monitor, cooperate with the local people and ensure access to humanitarian aid. They are specifically not tasked with fighting, except when defending themselves against attacks.
Also demanding observers to leave only makes sense when you plan to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. Not that existing observers stopped Israel before, but they still make a point of "removing" them.
https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-mandate
It is not the mandate of UNIFIL to directly fight people, unless in self defense. Stop conflating the general goals of the resolution with the mandate of UNIFIL.
Leave me alone says the person who's responding when they have no need to.
Yeah real personal on this public forum.
Pick one.
They’re literally hunkered down inside bunkers in their bases - which are well documented, flying UN flags, and painted peacekeeper white. The only place they’re “standing in the way” is in your propaganda. And now they’re “human shields” for Hezbollah, which if history is repeated, means they’re days/weeks away from direct Israeli bombing.
When you shoot at UN peacekeepers, you’re almost always the bad guy.
The biggest threat to peace in the region right now is not Iran, it is not them who should be kept out of the territory of another sovereign state
You appear to be ignoring Iran's support for terrorist organizations in other countries.
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Oh it does, but I did not want to mod yesterday.
Are you kidding? Israel has killed countless civilians in Gaza, committing obvious crimes like indiscriminately cutting off running water, is invading a sovereign state without the slightest cause accepted by international law, committing crimes as collective punishment. It has been clearly endangering the security of states like Iran in what is a provocation that even the US has protested. But for you it is not the greatest danger to the security of the region, you cannot be serious.
Your comment had two pieces, and my comment was contesting the second part only, namely this:
... because clearly, they're arming terrorist groups in another sovereign state specifically for the purpose of hurting yet another sovereign state.
While I am at it: I find ascribing the role of a "biggest threat" a bit pointless in this situation. Yes, Israel is clearly killing a lot of people right now. A lot more than either Hamas or Hezbollah on their own ever could.
Imo, the situation in the Middle East results from a pointless series of provocations where people chose to escalate rather than de-escalate.
At this time only one state has its own troops on the soil of another country without having been invited in the entire Middle East. Everything else is cheap talk that covers up or relativizes the genocidal acts of a criminal state.