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The u.n. Business

I’m a little out of touch today, so I’m not up-to-the-minute on the controversy over UN personnel getting killed. But I do have this to offer: When I was in Israel three weeks ago we went up to the northern border to look at some Hezbollah bunkers and observation posts (it was quiet then, and everyone assumed it would basically stay quiet). One of the Hezbollah observation posts–where you could see a Hezbollah guy moving around it was so close to the border–was right next to a U.N. post. I’m talking right next to. When I was peering over there with binoculars, at one point I thought the U.N. guy was actually talking to the Hezbollah guy. Hezbollah obviously did this so if things got hot, there would be a chance that Israel would hit the U.N. post by mistake.

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