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You won't get the straight story as to what is going on right now from the Main Stream Media.

• In 1982, the terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) used Southern Lebanon as a staging ground to attack Israel. Israel struck back and repelled these unwarranted attacks.
• After all, when faced with neighbors who say quaint things like, "We will drink the blood of Jews until we have quenched our thirst with your blood." (Hamas) or Israel should be "wiped from the face of the earth." (Ahmadinejad), one has a tendency to be a little paranoid when faced with unprovoked attacks.
• In the interests of "world peace" and at the urging of President Ronald Reagan, Israel pulled back and Reagan sent U.S. Marines to the area to keep the peace.
• A short time later -- in 1983 -- Hezbollah showed its "gratitude" to the United States by bombing Marine barracks in Beirut -- killing 241 American servicemen who were placed in Lebanon to keep the peace.

For the next 18 years, Israel occupied a 20-mile buffer-zone in Southern Lebanon for the express purpose of denying terrorist groups a staging ground to preemptively attack Israel.

But then -- at the urging of the world community -- on May, 24, 2000, Israel withdrew from Lebanon -- displacing 8,000 of its own citizens in the process -- and the United Nations set up a so-called peace-keeping force called the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

And how did UNIFIL keep the peace? Here's what NewsMax.com wrote in an interview with Dore Gold, the former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations:

He recounted when on October 7, 2000, about five months after Israel withdrew its last forces from Lebanon, Hezbollah terrorists crossed the Blue Line and kidnapped three Israeli soldiers on Israeli territory and brought them back into Lebanon."

"According to Gold, the Israeli Army determined that the UNIFIL post opposite of the place of the kidnapping had a direct line of sight on the area and, therefore, probably witnessed the entire attack on Israeli territory. "

'But instead of taking action against this Hezbollah act by, for example, putting up road blocks in Southern Lebanon to prevent the kidnapped soldiers from being brought into the interior of Lebanon, UNIFEL did nothing,'

Gold lamented. 'It didn't lift a finger to either prevent or stop the attack or to prevent the smuggling of the soldiers.'

"Later, explained Gold, when Israel had information that UNIFEL video taped part of this kidnapping effort, the U.N. denied that it had the video tape."

Ultimately the U.N. admitted that it had the video tape, but when it made it available for Israeli observation, it scratched out the faces of the Hezbollah terrorists so that Israel wouldn't identify them. "

'This kind of activity which is well known in the Israeli defense establishment, makes the U.N. a very problematic partner in any future security arrangements in Southern Lebanon,' said Gold.

"As another example of U.N. perfidy, Gold recounted the time when he was Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. and was asked to go up to the Department of Peace Keeping Operations to receive a diplomatic protest for an Israeli artillery attack on a position that was 50 meters from a UNIFEL base. "

'I asked the Israel Defense Forces why we were firing 50 meters from the UNIFEL base and I was told that it was counter battery fire because it was a Hezbollah artillery piece lodged in that position. '

"Gold asked the U.N. why didn't somebody leave the U.N. base and tell Hezbollah to move. 'Apparently, nobody thought of that,' Gold recounted.

"Gold's bottom line: Had U.N. resolutions on Lebanon been implemented, then no Israeli soldiers would have been kidnapped in northern Israel this month and there would be no Hezbollah rockets raining on Israeli civilians in Haifa, Nahariya, Safed, and Tiberias."

With a so-called friends like UNIFIL on the job, Israel -- and the United States for that matter -- doesn't need enemies.

And without John Bolton on the job to keep the United Nations "honest," terrorists world-wide WILL continue to flex their muscles with the tacit approval of the United Nations!

Liberals in the Senate have successfully blocked a vote on John Bolton's appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations for years and forced President Bush to use his recess appointment authority to TEMPORARILY put him on the job.

This temporary appointment will EXPIRE SOON and Senate liberals will move heaven and earth to BLOCK HIS APPOINTMENT YET AGAIN during a hearing this week.

While there is still a United States presence in the United Nations -- John Bolton is one of our MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPONS AGAINST WORLD-WIDE TERRORISM!

Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized 56 Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and EACH of the 55 Republicans in the United States Senate.

Demand that they STOP the obstruction of Senate liberals like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry!

Demand they give John Bolton a fair-up-or-down vote!

Demand they send the United Nations a clear message.

Demand they put John Bolton on the job PERMANENTLY -- TODAY!

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