Israel asks UNIFIL for help in collecting intelligence on Hizbullah

[Dry Ice]

Published: 03.06.07, 12:57 / Israel News

Israel has asked the NATO states taking part in the UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon for help in collection intelligence on Hizbullah related to the group's technical abilities in terms of intelligence, source in NATO told the Saudi newspaper al-Watan. (Roee Nahmias)

[Pasteur]

Originally Posted by Dry Ice

Published: 03.06.07, 12:57 / Israel News

Israel has asked the NATO states taking part in the UNIFIL force in southern Lebanon for help in collection intelligence on Hizbullah related to the group's technical abilities in terms of intelligence, source in NATO told the Saudi newspaper al-Watan. (Roee Nahmias)

The Nato replied...."Yet3amak el Hajj wel ness rej3ah"

Do you think these countries would wait for an israeli request to do that? They have already begun this from the first day they stepped in!

[victorious lebanon]

The unifil have already been warned what the consequence of them spying on the resistence or making their own operations in the south would be.

[dodzi]

Originally Posted by Pasteur

Do you think these countries would wait for an israeli request to do that? They have already begun this from the first day they stepped in!

Actually the US aren't participating, and the UK too weakly to have a good eye on the operations. I have doubts that France and Germany are collecting information to pass them to Israel...

[Dry Ice]

Note: The Israeli site used that "title", beware that in fact Israel made such a request to the NATO members of the nations participating in UNIFIL and not to the UN per se.

Plus the reference is an anonymous source in NATO who spoke to a Saudi newspaper.

[DL]

My own opinion has and will always be: Lebanon should not / should have never accepted any foreign force on its territory. We did not kick other occupations to find ourselves under the mercy of a UN force that has not / will never act according to our national interests (including spying for others).

I say: Thanks but no thanks - UNIFIL out! (in any case they are not doing anything more than writing empty reports and watching the Israelis breaking our sovereignty whenever they please)

[WiseCookie]

Originally Posted by DL

My own opinion has and will always be: Lebanon should not / should have never accepted any foreign force on its territory. We did not kick other occupations to find ourselves under the mercy of a UN force that has not / will never act according to our national interests (including spying for others).

I say: Thanks but no thanks - UNIFIL out! (in any case they are not doing anything more than writing empty reports and watching the Israelis breaking our sovereignty whenever they please)

I agree, but what about foreign funded militia's ?

If you refuse to have foreign forces on Lebanese territory including the UNIFIL which is technically not a foreign force because Lebanon is a member of the UN, which is basically the same excuse given to Lebanon about the "Arab Detterent Forces" a.k.a the Syrian army. except that the UN doesn't run Lebanon. Then one should think of the consequences behind such a request.

You will be giving free reign to a foreign funded militia in the South, and also free reign for the Israelis in Lebanon, without having them the least bit predisposed to thinking twice about their actions. The Lebanese Army is in the South but let's be honest, what can it do ? Nothing at all.

[AlGhaliboon]

Originally Posted by dodzi

Actually the US aren't participating, and the UK too weakly to have a good eye on the operations. I have doubts that France and Germany are collecting information to pass them to Israel...

I guess we forgot that Germany has a 'historic duty' to defend "Israel".

haha....

Btw Dry Ice, thanks for posting this piece of 'news', but is it really 'news'? We all know what the so-called expanded unifil is here for, they are here to 'defend' "Israel" from us, not the other way around. I think Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was quite clear about this in the victory rally speech.

But if the spies think they will last long in Lebanon with their activities, they probably want to review the events of 1983.
It wont be long until people take matters into their own hands and expel the traitors who are here to provide information to the enemy who only this past summer massacred 1200 of our people.

[CedarJet]

Originally Posted by WiseCookie

I agree, but what about foreign funded militia's ?

If you refuse to have foreign forces on Lebanese territory including the UNIFIL which is technically not a foreign force because Lebanon is a member of the UN, which is basically the same excuse given to Lebanon about the "Arab Detterent Forces" a.k.a the Syrian army. except that the UN doesn't run Lebanon. Then one should think of the consequences behind such a request.

You will be giving free reign to a foreign funded militia in the South, and also free reign for the Israelis in Lebanon, without having them the least bit predisposed to thinking twice about their actions. The Lebanese Army is in the South but let's be honest, what can it do ? Nothing at all.

Before you ask this question, regarding foreign funded militias, you need to agree with the person you're debating with on who you're talking about, and how you each define them.

If the person you are asking the question sees the armed group in question as a resistance, then right off the get go you're both on different sides of the coin.

If you both agree that you are talking about a militia, then you're halfway to finding a common answer.

We have many ex-militia turned 'political parties' in Lebanon that have the history of foreign funding. As a matter of fact, every party in Lebanon has had foreign funds in their accounts.

As for the article, nothing to be taken serious. There are spies collecting intelligence from all over the world. Lebanon right now is a hotspot, and spies usually like to hang out in Lebanon rather than iraq.

[Hye4Lebanon]

Originally Posted by Dry Ice

Note: The Israeli site used that "title", beware that in fact Israel made such a request to the NATO members of the nations participating in UNIFIL and not to the UN per se.

Plus the reference is an anonymous source in NATO who spoke to a Saudi newspaper.

I would imagine all this is to create "tension" between Unifil and HA which will lead to confrontation which is ultimately Israel's goal.

Israel's been sending these "hints" for quite some time and is not going to stop. They want someone else to fight their losing/embarrassing war.