United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701

It really has because the mainstream media, the liberal mainstream media, has made it front-page news.

Now, I find it interesting that two weeks before this flotilla incident, Benjamin Netanyahu came out and publicly said in violation of UN Resolution 1701, which calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah, Israel's enemy to the north in Lebanon, Hezbollah now has 60,000 rockets.

Now, that's big news.

60,000 rockets, and yet it didn't get very much coverage.

Lebanese Parliament Speaker says Lebanon unanimously supports extending UNIFIL's mission in Southern Lebanon under Resolution 1701.

Speaker vows to safeguard its sovereign rights, protect its borders, and liberate every last inch of its land from Israeli occupation.

Resolution 1701 tasks UNIFIL with monitoring borders disputes and the disputed areas, and also to keep an eye on Israeli violations.

During a meeting in Beirut with Jean-Pierre, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Barry said Lebanon would continue its efforts at all levels to safeguard its sovereign rights, protect its borders, and liberate every last inch of its land from Israeli occupation.

In a statement, Barry said Resolution 1701 tasks UNIFIL with monitoring the international border along the Blue Line, helping identify disputed points over which Lebanon has reservations in monitoring and documenting daily Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

Adopted by United Nations Security Council in August 2006, the resolution established the international framework for ending hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah at the time.

Barry said UNIFIL's role, quote, extended beyond the security and military matters to include humanitarian, social, cultural, and economic activities.

He said there was an official Lebanese consensus on, quote, maintaining the presence of the international forces and their mission, pointing to parliamentary efforts to engage the international community and the United Nations on the issue.

And the reason I'm saying this is that Hezbollah can grow as the Israelis retreat, and that's been recent history as well, twice, from May of 2000 until July, 2006.

And then again, post 1701, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and UNIFIL's expansion, Hezbollah grew.

It grew in relevance and importance to Lebanon or Lebanese suffocation, but not for Israel.

These are the years Hezbollah was venturing off into Syria, training militia in Iraq and Yemen.

Israel pulled out IDF for- forces from the security zone in Lebanon in the year 2000.

After the 2006 war, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was supposed to prevent Hezbollah's armed presence in southern Lebanon.

That made us pull out again.

Instead, Hezbollah transformed southern Lebanon into an Iranian military front against Israel.