France submits a new draft resolution for the UN Security Council.
DEBKAfile summarizes the French draft resolution as calling for:
* An immediate cessation of hostilities in Lebanon under UNIFIL supervision.
Because UNIFIL has done such a good job so far
*Respect for the “blue line” Israeli-Lebanese international border (but no direct demand for Israeli troop withdrawal).
*The return of kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
*The release of Lebanese prisoners.
Maybe it means something different in French. This would requre releasing a killer who made a 4-year old watch as her parents were killed, and then was killed by having her head smashed. Yeah, this deal makes sense.
*A demilitarized zone from the Litani River to the blue line.
*Demarcation of LebanonÂ’s borders (with Syria too, which would cover the controversial Shaaba Farms site).
*Submission of Israeli maps of minefields in S. Lebanon.
"submission" is right.
*Renewal of the Israeli-Lebanese 1949 armistice agreement.
Reference to UN Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1680 requiring Hizballah to be disarmed (without defining how these resolutions should be implemented).
And so, once again, this resolution will be protested by the US and Israel (and hopefully vetoed by the US). And the world will react with outrage that such a "reasonable" resolution was not acceptable. F*** the UN. And Francestan. |