Bunker Busting

So what did Hizbullah do in the six years between Israel's withdrawal from South Lebanon and their war initiated just under a month ago when Hizbullah terrorists killed eight Israelis and took two others, Goldwasser and Regev in a brazen raid that Nasrallah now says was a mistake?

Well, they built bunkers. Lots of bunkers.

IDF forces from the Golani Brigade blasted open a Hizbullah bunker overnight Saturday some 400 meters from the security fence near Rosh Hanikra, it was reported on Sunday. The bunker was discovered a mere stone's throw from a UN post.

According to Lt.-Col. Jassem Elian, a senior officer in the Golani Brigade, "Hizbullah dug a 40-meter by two-kilometer pit, in which they built dozens of outposts."

Elian added that the bunker had "shooting positions of poured concrete," and that the combat posts inside were equipped with phone lines, showers, toilets, air ducts, and emergency exits, as well as logistical paraphernalia for Hizbullah.

A Golani officer told the Jerusalem Post that among the force's findings was a Katyusha rocket launcher, most likely used in rocket attacks against northern Israel during the war.

He also mentioned that Golani forces had initiated the move to uncover the bunker after the same battalion, in an earlier operation, had discovered maps specifying certain areas where Hizbullah had planned such tunnels in south Lebanon.

Some of them were right up close and personal to the Lebanon-Israeli border and within a half mile of UNIFIL positions. That would be the same UNIFIL that was supposed to make sure that UN SCR 1559 was carried out and calls for the disarmament of all militias and the territorial integrity of Lebanon.

What was UNIFIL doing for the six years from when Israel withdrew from Lebanon til now? Did they not notice all the construction work going on right under their noses building bunkers and reinforced structures that were built by someone other than the Lebanese military?

That question remains unanswered, but it appears that UNIFIL was doing all it could to provide Hizbullah and Iran and Syria with all kinds of intel about Israeli troop movements in and around UNIFIL positions, which were published in the UNIFIL daily reports. And the UN will not prevent Hizbullah from being resupplied by Syria either.

The conflict between Hizbullah and Israel has been a clarifying event. American Thinker has a good article on why and how Israel won this conflict, despite the media coverage suggesting the opposite occurred - all by Hizbullah design to capitalize on the fact that Israel's response would predicate civilian casualties that would be blamed on Israel, not Hizbullah.