Tag: Lebanon
Don’t Make UNIFL a Bargaining Chip- Time for An Irish Withdrawal from Lebanon
Within Irish defence and foreign policy circles, the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNFIL) has a particular pride of place. Deployed since 1978 to assist in peacekeeping operations on the Lebanese-Israeli frontier, 330 Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry...
UNIFIL, Crotty and Ireland’s Looming Lebanon Disaster
A contrived scandal designed to divert blame off a lenient judiciary and onto the backs of the Defence Forces would normally be classified as a poor way to prepare for a potential military crisis in Southern Lebanon but so it...