[dralley]

Their "peacekeeping" missions are somewhere between utterly impotent / useless and actively counterproductive. Playing dumb and doing nothing while Hezbollah uses you as cover to launch missiles over the border from a couple hundred meters away is not keeping the peace.

[osiris970]

Yeah, didn't they completely fail at stopping hezbollah from rebuilding, right in their backyard?

[istultus]

That assumes that their mission is to stop anything. UNRWA's sole mission (like most large-scale nonprofits - not suggesting they're unique) is to continue to procure money for its 30,000 or so salaried posts.

[C6JEsQeQa5fCjE]

Additionally, it assumes that the Irish, who broadly as a people support national liberation movements, would even want to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding, even if they could.

[osiris970]

I mean what they think is somewhat irrelevant here, their UN mission was to stop terrorists from rebuilding, and utterly failed.

[C6JEsQeQa5fCjE]

The UN does not consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, so that could not have been their UN mission.

[dralley]

Seems like a failing of the UN, if true.