Israel "worries" about UNIFIL fate after Lebanon elections

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(Last time Israel 'worried' about the UN or the UNIFIL in south Lebanon ... it committed Qana I..)

So Israel used 'restraints' in its obliterating war on Lebanon in July-August 2006'? "Savage-State" at its old tricks again!
JPOST, here

"Israel is becoming increasingly anxious about the fate of UNIFIL if Hizbullah increases its power in upcoming parliamentary elections in Lebanon. Defense officials have also expressed concern with American plans to supply advanced military platforms to the Lebanese armed forces. The Lebanese people will head to polls on June 7 amid predictions that Hizbullah will bolster its position in parliament and form the next coalition.

Israel is concerned that if Hizbullah wins the elections, some European members of UNIFIL will consider downsizing their participation in the force or completely withdrawing their personnel. Poland has already decided to withdraw its forces and transfer them to Afghanistan. ...

Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned this week that if Hizbullah gained considerably in the elections Israel would not feel the restraints it did in 2006 about attacking Lebanese infrastructure. "Today Hizbullah controls a third of the Lebanese government," Barak said. "If in the upcoming elections Hizbullah will gain more power in the government, that will open it up more than in the past to the IDF's force, and will give us a freedom of action that we did not have completely in July 2006. ....so as not to weaken the position of pro-Western Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.

"The UN investigation will apparently find Hizbullah responsible for the killing of [former Lebanese prime minister Rafik] Hariri," Barak said, adding that this is a further indictment against Hizbullah for trying to undermine the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the region..."

Posted by G, Z, & or B at 5:52 PM