Congress gets tough with UN over weak Hezbollah inspections
Two hundred forty members of Congress signed a letter this week urging UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to fully implement UN Resolution 1701, which called for the disarmament of terror groups and forbids any group from deploying south of the Litani River. Passed at the end of the Second Lebanese War in 2006, the resolution has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. Hezbollah has deployed all over south Lebanon by threatening United Nations observers and infiltrating Lebanese towns. Congress warned Guterres that if he fails to act, Israel may be forced to defend itself through military action.
The letter is the latest effort by Congress to push the United Nations to act against Hezbollah. In August, Israel and the US attempted to force UN observers to note in their reports which villages they don’t visit — which would give an indication of where Hezbollah is stationed. The letter shows that that the United States is not willing to let the matter drop.
Does someone who identifies as “anti-Israel” take issue with the specific policies of the Israeli government, or is the stance simply a contemporary version of millennia-old anti-Semitism?
This was the subject of a symposium hosted by the Israeli embassy in Washington on the initiative of the WZO (World Zionist Organization) and AZM (America Zionist Movement) this week. Both Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador in Washington, and Elan Carr, America’s anti-Semitism envoy, spoke at the gathering. Their conclusion? The two phenomena are indistinguishable.
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