Two Jabs for the Price of One

Here is an interesting piece from the New York Sun's blog, 'It Shines for All'. (I like how they manage to mention the anti-Semitism of the U.N. and the surrender monkey nature of the French in the same post!)

Israeli and U.N. Tanks in Face-Off

"UN and Israeli tanks have been involved in a brief face-off on a road in southern Lebanon where the Israeli army has been setting up checkpoints," Reuters reports (via littlegreenfootballs.com).

Four French Leclerc tanks with UN peacekeepers moved up the hill to stand 500 meters (yards) from the entrance to the border village of Marwaheen, as two Israeli Merkava tanks operated nearby on Lebanese soil.

Standing some 50 meters from each other, the tanks were locked in a 20-minute face-off, the first between the Israeli army and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which has been boosted to oversee the current truce.

The French tanks then withdrew from the area, as observers of the UN Truce Supervision Organisation deployed in the area.

Just this morning we noted the news that the U.N. was failing to disarm Hezbollah. We wrote:

What a surprise, U.N. peacekeepers fail in their mission. At least they're not openly aiding Hezbollah ... yet.

Well now they are. Only this time the (French) U.N. soldiers retreated.