Should international peace keepers be used in Lebanon?

Israel & Palestine Forum

Tell us your opinion.

Personally I think they should have been sent in a week ago when Lebanon asked of course that was vetoed but now Israel has asked the US can't bring the subject up quick enough.

I would still send them in but the nations that do it have to be carefully selected. It can't be US as they are more liley to side with Israel thus making them the worst peacekepers ever, the UK is overstreched as it is, China seems to be happy to keep well out unless it affects China, Australia is I think in the same position as the UK and Germany don't look intrested.
I think the best option would be to send in Turks who have already offered and who the Israelis and the Lebanese seem the most comfortable with, maybe compliment it with a few French who have made noises about getting involved and possibly some arabs to work on the Lebanese border only maybe Egyptians who seem the more moderate although the Saudis have also offered support.

Yes, and once the properly trustworthy peacekeepers are selected, they must be prepared to fight in order to create the peace that they will thereafter keep.

That's peacemakers not peacekeepers, 2 totally diffrent groups. For example the Balkans NATO mission was peacemaking but the mission now is UN peacekeping.

Mind you after yesterday I don't see why the UN should help Israel.

Well I think when you look at it we MUST give peace a go, Israel and Hizbollah have been at this for nearly 3 weeks I beleive and where hs it got anybody? Israel has been bombed Lebanon has been bombed, the soldiers are still missing most probably dead, Hizbollah does not look weakend in fact if anything it is probably seeing a surge in membership and the people who have suffered the most are the Lebanese most of whom have nothing to do with this whole thing.

Lets face it only 3 countries want this to go on USA, UK and Israel and even now the UK is changing it's mind after what the US did yesterday. Pretty soon Israel and the US will lookn isolated and if they contionue to deny peace the chance they will look like warmongers and that will help nobody long term.

Peace is difficult to manufacture but better to try to make it than continue to deny it.

Having one side defeated is not peace, it's surrender.

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Of course it's a proxy war with Iran... and Syria.

We did the same thing against the USSR in the Iran v. Iraq war. It's backdoor fighting and the US casualty list doesn't go up so the Bush approval rating doesn't go down.

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I will only agree because I don't see them calling an equal truce.

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I voted no, International Peacekeepers should not be used.

This is a Middle Eastern war, let the Middle East hash it out. It's way past time the Western World just minded their own business.