US EditionUS May Move to Dissolve UN Peacekeeper Mission in Lebanon, Israel Endorses the Idea - News From Antiwar.com
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Israel pushes to end UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, citing ineffectiveness
The White House has denied a report that the U.S. and Israel have already decided to terminate its operations, but confirmed that it is under consideration. The U.S. can veto a UN Security Council vote to extend UNIFIL's mandate in August
Israel backs US bid to remove UNIFIL peacekeepers from Lebanon
Israel is reportedly backing a move by the United States to end the 47-year presence of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, stoking concerns in Beirut amid increasing Israeli airstrikes across the country. White House documents show that President Donald Trump administration's is considering cutting all funding for UN peacekeeping missions around the world – including UNIFIL in Lebanon – as part of its radical agenda to slash government spendin…
US May Move to Dissolve UN Peacekeeper Mission in Lebanon, Israel Endorses the Idea - News From Antiwar.com
US officials have reportedly begun discussing the possibility of seeking the dissolution of the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, a move that comes amid a ceasefire that sees multiple violations on a daily basis. They emphasized that no decision has yet been made. The measure is being countenanced as…
Whether it is rumors without too much foundation, as some suggest, or instead of decisions already taken and which must only be formalized, as others claim, is certain in any case the revision of the US attitude with regard to the future of Unifil, the Force of Interposition in Lebanon of the United Nations. If indeed the United States, as with insistence is hypothesized, vague to end it with a mission that has largely demonstrated its inconsist…
If the United States opposes the renewal of the Unifil peacekeeping mission with its veto power, the operation will end.
The withdrawal of UNIFIL troops from Lebanon is not a normal or rogue step, but rather will contribute to a new drawing of the reality on southern Lebanon that will significantly alter the balance. Between politics and the military, political sources are talking to Lebanon 24 times the gravity of that step, saying that the presence of international forces in Lebanon was aimed at maintaining peace and not at carrying out any acts or war missions,…
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