This is a real press release from the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon:
UN Special Coordinator Joanna Wronecka held a round of meetings this week with Lebanese and international stakeholders to try to safeguarding Lebanon’s security and stability from the ongoing warfare between Israeli and Hamas, which has already resulted in tensions along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel. In all her meetings, the Special Coordinator underlined the urgency of restoring the calm along the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel and of protecting Lebanon from a further spillover of violence at a time when the country was already in the throes of a protracted political and socio-economic crisis.
There are two more paragraphs, but they all have the same problem: they don't mention Hezbollah or Iran as players in this little drama.
This would be comical if it wasn't so insane: How, exactly, has Israel's battle with Hamas resulted in "tensions" along the Lebanese border? Who might be responsible for that? Who might be threatening the other party?
I can give her a hint from Lebanese media::
Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has vowed that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying that his Lebanon-based group already is "in the heart of the battle."
If the UN can't even say Hezbollah's name and condemn it for its threats to start a war for no reason except Iran instructs it to, then it should just pack up and leave. Conflicts cannot be solved if you aren't even sure of who the two parties are.
(h/t Irene)
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