There's Gotta Be Irony In Here Somewhere
Ed Morrissey

Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has told an interviewer that he wants German troops in any international force protecting the Jewish state. I'm really not kidding:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would welcome German troops participating in an international force in southern Lebanon, according to a newspaper interview published Friday. ...

Olmert said he told Merkel that Israel has "absolutely no problem with German soldiers in southern Lebanon."

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So now we have the spectacle of another genocidal nutcase threatening to kill off millions of Jews in the form of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the nation that will protect them will be the last nation with the same genocidal impulse, if Olmert gets his way. Not that the Germans still have that illness -- they lost it sometime during the Nuremberg trials, for the most part. However, the historical irony is too great to simply dismiss -- and some Israelis with living memory of the Holocaust may find the irony more than just a historical curiosity.

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Folks, the problem that's becoming more and more obvious as the days wear on is that no one who's qualified for the job is willing to staff an international peacekeeping force to stand between Israel and the jihadis. Israel would have to be nuts to accept a UN force comprised of Muslim troops. Reading farther into the Morrissey article you learn Germany is just one more country that could do the job well but doesn't want it. The French don't want it, and who in their right mind would trust the French anyway? Britain and the Commonwealth nations are "stretched too thin" already, as is the U.S. Japan's constitution forbids deploying armed troops on foreign soil? I've heard Brazil mentioned, but are they really up to the job militarily? I'll hazard a prediction at this point that whether we or they want the job or not, American and Australian troops are going to end up staffing a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah.

*** Update and bump

Allah has more here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 4, 2006 at 05:14 PM in Bill Faith, Current Affairs, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, UNuseful | Permalink

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