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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Thoughts on A Variety of Issues And Topics.The writer is a retired lawyer, studying for a research degree on federal government. For many years he has been involved in professional ethics, notably relating to solicitors, and currently he is a member of a research ethics committee of a strategic health authority. Other interests include politics, nature study, country walking, environ-mental issues and railways (ranging between history, preservation lines and models. .
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Currently The Middle Eastern crisis is especially disturbing; whether or not the fragile cease-fire can be sustained, let alone strengthened, is hard to forecast. We can only hope and pray that it will. The fashionable idea, that the U.N.'s existing force of 2000 in Southern Lebanon can be strengthened by adding 15,000 soldiers, contributed by an assortment of states which are members, seems bizarre.Certainly a large number of troops is required, but the prospect of the Lebanese Army's answering that need seems doubtful. In terms of Lebanon's demography, a good third of such a force will comprise Shi'ites with strong pro-Hezbollah sympathies, anyway. Other nations may contribute a few hundred each or a thousand or so, but, unless the French lead with a larger number, to co-ordinate the operation, the likelihood of an effective U.N. force with adequate powers and authority to encourage Hezbollah to withdraw and to ensure that the Israelis really do retire into Northern Israel and stay there seems rather faint.One other aspect is worrying, the failure of the U.N., the United States, the U.K. and France to make any effort to involve Syria, Iran and the leaders of Hezbollah in the necessary discussions to try and resolve the present troubles. The Republic of Lebanon is far too weak to represent entire Arab cause; somehow or other the trio just mentioned, who seem to have been categorized as pariahs, have to be brought into the negotiations. Without such a recognition of reality, the bloodshed so recently ended will resume.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Thoughts on A Variety of Issues And Topics.The writer is a retired lawyer, studying for a research degree on federal government. For many years he has been involved in professional ethics, notably relating to solicitors, and currently he is a member of a research ethics committee of a strategic health authority. Other interests include politics, nature study, country walking, environ-mental issues and railways (ranging between history, preservation lines and models. .
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Currently The Middle Eastern crisis is especially disturbing; whether or not the fragile cease-fire can be sustained, let alone strengthened, is hard to forecast. We can only hope and pray that it will. The fashionable idea, that the U.N.'s existing force of 2000 in Southern Lebanon can be strengthened by adding 15,000 soldiers, contributed by an assortment of states which are members, seems bizarre.Certainly a large number of troops is required, but the prospect of the Lebanese Army's answering that need seems doubtful. In terms of Lebanon's demography, a good third of such a force will comprise Shi'ites with strong pro-Hezbollah sympathies, anyway. Other nations may contribute a few hundred each or a thousand or so, but, unless the French lead with a larger number, to co-ordinate the operation, the likelihood of an effective U.N. force with adequate powers and authority to encourage Hezbollah to withdraw and to ensure that the Israelis really do retire into Northern Israel and stay there seems rather faint.One other aspect is worrying, the failure of the U.N., the United States, the U.K. and France to make any effort to involve Syria, Iran and the leaders of Hezbollah in the necessary discussions to try and resolve the present troubles. The Republic of Lebanon is far too weak to represent entire Arab cause; somehow or other the trio just mentioned, who seem to have been categorized as pariahs, have to be brought into the negotiations. Without such a recognition of reality, the bloodshed so recently ended will resume.
Michael Buck.
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