Responding to this story from yesterday. After everything is over, UNIFIL flaps its hands in the general direction of the dispute over the Shebaa Farms area — from a safe distance, of course.
[AlAhram] UN peacekeepers in southern Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...called for calm on Friday after Lebanese and Israeli troops came close to direct confrontation in the flashpoint "Blue Line" border area.
The tension on the edge of the Lebanese border village of Kfar Chouba began earlier this week over the Israeli military digging in Lebanese area.