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CIAO DATE: 12/5/2006
Sending in the Peacekeepers Is a Fool's Game
Michael Rubin
July 2006
Abstract
Despite the dispatch of several peacekeeping missions to the Middle East over the past fifty years, the violence still rages on. The determination of Israel's enemies to wipe it off the map prevents United Nations peacekeepers from playing an effective role in bringing stability to the region.
As fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah, both the British government and the United Nations have called for the dispatch of an international peacekeeping mission to southern Lebanon. "The only way we are going to have a cessation of violence is if we have an international force deployed," British prime minister Tony Blair said recently. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan added that such a force is "essential."