Inside Europe: Why are Irish soldiers in Lebanon?

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A weekly deep dive into the twists and turns of European news, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.
Irish soldiers in Lebanon, linguistic defiance in Belarus and the long shadow cast by Norway’s worst ever oil platform disaster. Also expect: modern day shepherds, post industrial landscapes, lenient lexicographers and edible insects!

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37:56 Duden’s Dr Laura Neuhaus on “the idiot’s apostrophe”
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[@LETHALWEAPONZZZ]

My dad was a soilder in Lebanon back in 1999/2000 I think, I was a child. Much respect for these Irish soilders. There families must be worried sick. Hopefully isreal comes to sense and avoid all UN Pecekeepers 🙏 God bless The Irish in Camp Shamrock 🍀🇮🇪

[@silverkitty2503]

Proud of our troops.

[@you-know-who9023]

Actually the Irish contingent has been there almost continuously since 1978 with UNIFIL 1 and UNIFIL 2 Irelsnd has also had unarmed military UN observers in Lebanon since 1956 with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation .

[@Dignity4allhumanity]

Bolster UN positions this a critical moment where UK and Germany 🇩🇪 draw a red line where Israel is concerned. A German UN warship is in the Mediterranean meanwhile Germany is providing arms Uk 🇬🇧 are both providing intel and arms. The State of Israel 🇮🇱 wouldn’t exist had it not been for the United Nations 🇺🇳 when the Balfour declaration was handed over from Britain. The irony the UN 🇺🇳 would unravel the state of Israel 🇮🇱

[@markhynes1230]

To be human shields for the IDF of course!

[@nialldunnend]

Yeah show your clueless you donut

[@eviivo-h8z]

Try to think how you feel when Lebanon soldiers in Germany. Oh, you got American soldiers already 😅

[@stayhungry1503]

the real question is, why are IDF shooting them?

[@jeffreywise4807]

Israel has crossed the border to push Hizbullah out of southern Lebanon after 12 months of rockets being launched by Hizbullah on the north of Israel. This is necessary because Unifil, which was supposed to have kept Hizbullah north of the Litany river, didn’t. So the ACTUAL real question is, what is Unifil doing in Lebanon? And the answer is, nothing, except getting in the way of Israel’s efforts to do the job that Unifil failed to do. Israel warned them they were in a war zone and asked them to take shelter or relocate. They refused and ended up in the line of fire.