Why the UN can't solve the problem
You may have noticed a slight anti-UN bias here. In case you were wondering why, here's a bit of history.
David Kopel at Volokh Conspiracy covers the 2000 Hizb'allah kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldiers:
According an Indian solider in UNIFIL who witnessed the kidnapping, "By this stage, there was a big commotion and dozens of UN soldiers from the Indian brigade came around." The witness stated that the brigade knew that the kidnappers in UN uniform were Hezbollah. One soldiers said that the brigade should arrest the Hezbollah, but the brigade did nothing.
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Even after admitting the existence of the first videotape, Annan refused to allow Israel to view it. He claimed that letting Israel see evidence about the kidnapping would undermine the UN’s neutrality. Thus, Annan insisted on neutrality between innocent victims and terrorists who had used fake UN insignia and who had taken vehicles from UN staff a gunpoint.
Hopefully everyone is aware that UN peacekeepers have been deployed in Southern Lebanon? We've seen how well they stopped the Hizb'allah attacks this year.
Of course, then there is Gaza, where the UN employs members of Hamas.
Then there's the new UN Human Rights Council, which, in its first meeting, addressed only one specific country:
With regards to the situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, the Council adopted a resolution in which it decided to undertake substantive consideration of the human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories at its next session and to incorporate this issue in its following sessions.
Update: AbbaGav gives us some more fodder:
But the crowning achievement of UNIFIL's tenuous tenure on the border has to be their jaw-dropping success at not having recognized a single Hizbullah missile being smuggled under their noses and installed on Lebanon's "sovereign" border with Israel. And it wasn't easy either, what with Nasrallah's constant bragging about his 10,000 missiles. It takes some serious committment to peace to avoid raising an inconvenient fuss about that many missiles, and possibly getting the guy who used to bribe you angry.
I'll leave out the non-anti-semitic actions, like the rampant corruption at the UN (Tongsun Park, anyone?) or the depredations of UN peacekeepers on civilian populations.
The UN is not friendly to Israel. Israel should not trust them.
