[Toronto Sun] Salim Mansur - UN Resolution 1701 is a Chapter 6 resolution with no teeth, calling for "cessation of hostilities" between Hizballah and Israel and, thereby, establishes an outrageous equivalence between a terrorist organization and a UN-member state with a democratically elected government. As for the disbanding of militias, neither what passes for Lebanese authority in Beirut, nor UNIFIL, even with additional peacekeepers, will risk a firefight to disarm Hizballah.
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