Last week (Friday, August 29th) the UN security council passed a ‘compromise’ resolution to extend the UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) force for another year. News reports (https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/un-security-due-to-vote-on-extending-unifils-mandate-640322) falsely claimed that UNIFIL was reduced in size from 15,000 to 13,000 troops. In fact, the force is now at 11,000 troops, so only by the […]