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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/20/AR2006082000149.html
Israel: No UN Troops from Countries that Don't Recognize Israel
[Washington Post] Doug Struck - Israel on Sunday objected to including countries that do not have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state in the nascent peacekeeping force for Lebanon, such as the Muslim countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. "The idea that you could have forces on our border from countries that we could not talk to, that we couldn't coordinate with, would cause problems," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Sunday.