No teeth, no stomach, and no brains - OXYMORON ALERT
Security Council OKs Mideast Peace Deal
There is a deal but no peace.
The 'robust force' to be placed in southern Lebanon, will not, if they see Hizballah firing missiles at Haifa have the mandate to take out the men and launchers of the aggressor racist murderers.
This is not a "chapter 7" resolution.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, and authorizes the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israel withdraws.
The draft, which had been proposed by the United States and France, offers the best chance yet for peace after more than four weeks of significant bloodshed. It was the first significant action by the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body, to address a war that has killed more than 800 people, destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure and inflamed tensions across the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert endorsed the resolution late Friday, after a day of dramatic day brinksmanship including a threat to expand the ground war in Lebanon. But Israeli officials said Israel would not halt fighting until Israel's Cabinet has approved the cease-fire deal in its weekly meeting Sunday.
The UN has proved again that simply 'stopping the killing' stops nothing and postpones for another day that which is predestined by racist theologies to occur - get ready for Hizballah victory celebrations, and a do nothing 'UNIFIL II'
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