He is haggling the usual bad Faith

It is an exercise in cheap talk that will lead nowhere. It is not something new; it is a recurrence that is seen every time we deal with matters relating to Israel.

After 600 words to say how bad everyone is, Danny Danon, who is Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, has reserved the last paragraph of his article to say that in the face of adversity, Israel remained perfect all along. Here is what, in his eyes, makes Israel the perfect thing that he says it is: “No one wants Unifil to succeed more than Israel does. We seek calm and stability on our northern border.” There will be more about this remark later.

You can see all of that and more in the article that Danon wrote under the title: “Hezbollah Is Running Rings Around U.N. Monitors in Lebanon and the subtitle: “The Security Council should expand the force's mandate––and make sure they do their jobs.” It was published on August 21, 2017 in the Wall Street Journal.

Of course, when the writer says that everyone other than Israel is bad, he wants to tell the bad guys what they must do to get better. And as always, what he wants to see done are the things that will serve Israel's interests. This means the things that will come at the expense of everyone else.

And so Danon of Israel starts dictating to these bad guys: Hezbollah, Hamas, Lebanon and the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL.) As well, to make sure that someone will be there to police the crowd, he tells friendly United States of America how to do its job in fulfillment of that task. In short, he wants to see a beehive where everyone runs around doing something to keep always-unsteady Israel from falling flat on its face.

So now, we want to know what in Danon's eyes the bad guys do that's really bad … which happens to be the things he says Israel is doing perfectly well. To tell what that is, he begins by saying that he took dozens of UN ambassadors on tours of Israel's border with Lebanon to show them that Hezbollah is violating Security Council resolutions. But he neglected to tell how hard the ambassadors laughed in his face given that no one comes close to violating UN resolutions the way that Israel does.

Next, Danon takes on the UNIFIL forces accusing them of being “not effective in fulfilling their mandate.” He explains they were supposed to keep the territory south of the Litany River free of weapons and fighters other than the Lebanese army. He says such prohibition should include Hezbollah even though Hezbollah is an integral part of the Lebanese government and army. That is, beehive or not, Danon wants to structure the government of Lebanon according to precepts that would serve the interests of Israel. Go figure.

Look what else Danon complains about: “Israel reported to the UN that Hezbollah has established a series of border outposts … Our intelligence services have determined that these positions are used for reconnaissance operations against Israel. Unifil claimed it lacked authority to investigate.” Do you realize how much gall is packed in these words?

For one thing Unifil says it had no mandate to investigate. This can only be true because if it investigated Hezbollah, it would have to investigate Israel as well. In fact, Danon admits that it was Israel's “intelligence services” which discovered that Hezbollah had intelligence services doing reconnaissance. So why would he deny Lebanon what he admits Israel already has? What could this be but the exhibition of raw Jewish gall?

And that's not the only thing Israel's intelligence services discovered. Here is what Danon says in this regard: “We shared with the Security Council information detailing how towns have become Hezbollah strongholds. We also shared intelligence revealing how the Iranians use airlines to [transport] arms into Lebanon.” And his list of complaints goes on even if nothing of what he accuses Lebanon is illegal, unlawful or unethical.

Given all that which troubles him, he tells the UN what it must do in three steps. (1) Unifil must increase its presence in the territory, (2) Unifil must report all violations to the Security Council and (3) Unifil must insist on unlimited access to all suspicious installations.

But why would anyone, including the U.S. take Danon seriously? After all, the last time the UN did things Israel's way, Israel bombed the UN installations killing dozens that included Canadian peacekeepers. Israel kept bombing for an hour despite the fact that the UN contacted Israel's commanders several times and told them they were making a mistake. But the Jewish aggression continued till the UN posts were completely obliterated.

This says that when Danny Danon, speaking in the name of Israel, says: “We seek calm and stability on our northern border,” he means: We seek the peace of the grave.

And the UN says: Thanks but no thanks.