It's not just Iran that is working to keep Hezbollah safe and strong.
It's the UN. It's France, which just lost a soldier to a Hezbollah terrorist attack. It's every country in Europe that is demanding that "Lebanon" (read Hezbollah) be protected during the temporary cease-fire between Iran, Israel, and the US. It's even Egypt and Turkey, which are not aligning with the Gulf states, presumably because they lean more Islamist than the oil-producing countries that are struggling to enter the modern world.
For decades, the United Nations has had a "peacekeeping" force in Southern Lebanon, with the mission to create a buffer zone between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorists trying to kill Israelis. It has never even tried to do that. Hezbollah has taken over the very area that the UN "patrols," and as far as I can tell, the sole purpose of the UN force is to provide cover for Hezbollah by acting as human shields to deter the Israeli military.
Hezbollah killed a French "peacekeeper" this weekend, and both the UN and France condemned the killing, as if it were a mere event, and not an action by a specific group.
At this point, omitting Hezbollah isn’t oversight - it’s policy.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 19, 2026
Mind boggling how António Guterres can post about a Hezbollah terror attack in Lebanon without mentioning the perpetrator - like reviewing Jaws and skipping the shark. https://t.co/4Rp53mZuqX
United Nations Secretary General Guterres carefully avoids mentioning Hezbollah because it would not fit The Narrative™ that Israel is the great aggressor. The terrorist attack is a mere inconvenience, so everything comes out in the passive voice. So much so that the jokes wrote themselves:
Who is Saturday? https://t.co/vzNOHOYApN
— Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) April 19, 2026
All the worst people are rushing to claim that Israel is attacking Lebanon, when in fact it is trying to eradicate Lebanon's worst enemy. That is why the Lebanese government is far less interested in stopping Israel's bombing campaign than the United Nations, France, Great Britain, or any of the organizations supposedly working for its benefit.
BREAKING: Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun defends Israel:
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 9, 2026
“Nothing in war is humane — but if Israel wanted to annihilate Shiites in Lebanon, it wouldn’t give warnings. We’d be seeing 100,000 casualties, not 2,000.” pic.twitter.com/Xfv1Z23X6h
The simple fact is that the United Nations and the transnational elite have chosen sides in the conflict in the Middle East, and that side is the Islamists. This is not a new phenomenon. The UNRWA has been a Hamas and Hezbollah ally for decades, and is in many ways responsible for the conflict persisting for so long. It is UNRWA schools that teach Jihad against Jews, and it is UNRWA employees who keep the money and resources flowing to the Islamists.
UN "peacekeeping" forces have protected Hezbollah as they build tunnels, bunkers, and fire rockets into Northern Israel, and European countries have rushed to protect Islamists as their own Muslim population grows, and as Iran has squeezed them.
Hezbollah can even kill UN peacekeepers with impunity, should they so choose, because they know that they hold the high cards.
I don't know why the terrorists decided to kill a French soldier and wound several others, but it's clear that their bet that the UN and France would tolerate it was clearly a good one.
Hezbollah official live on TV: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students.”
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 18, 2026
Told you none of this is organic. pic.twitter.com/6v7XwQuNUG
Hezbollah can now work more freely in Europe than in the Middle East. They are flooding the zone with propaganda, while Western leaders cower and give them cover.
BREAKING: Syria releases footage of them seizing and arresting Hezbollah operatives and their equipment.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 19, 2026
A new Middle East is on the horizon. pic.twitter.com/c1sAksJOwd
It's notable that a former al-Qaeda terrorist who now leads Syria is working more closely with Israel and the Gulf states to hunt down the terrorists than our transnational elite. Perhaps it takes a former terrorist to understand terrorists.
Meanwhile, Sanchez in Beijing last week. China famously never violates international law or EU principles https://t.co/JtdIFKixB8 pic.twitter.com/otdqpTygrH
— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) April 19, 2026
Once this Iran conflict is over, the world's alliance structures will be fundamentally reshaped. Europe keeps making all the wrong bets, allying with all the wrong people, and keeps making itself weaker. Every energy bet it has made has been a disaster. It's trading the US for China as a strategic partner, and alienating its energy suppliers.
Anyone notice what’s missing from this video?
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) April 19, 2026
The video shows four Western European leaders hugging each other and patting one another their backs. It shows them striding forcefully!
You know what you don’t see?
Ships! There’s not a warship to be seen.
Just like real life. https://t.co/kDAaIuTZKQ
Euros are engaged in performances, not serious policies. The funniest one this past week was the agreement by 50 nations, led by France and Britain, to open the Strait of Hormuz. It is being portrayed as a rebuff to Trump, who...had asked them to help open the Strait of Hormuz. It is the same kind of "rebuke" they gave to Trump when he asked them to increase defense spending. They got so miffed that they are preparing to...increase their defense spending, independent of the US.
It's almost like Trump is playing 4-D chess, maneuvering the Europeans to divorce from the US and stand up for themselves, while simultaneously revealing that they are not on our side, justifying our pulling back from defending ingrates.
🇭🇺 HUGE! Magyar Péter REJECTS the EU Migration Pact:
— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 15, 2026
"Hungary will not accept any pact. In fact, I'm going to reinforce the border fence even more."
Ursula's European Union cheered for nothing! pic.twitter.com/qndVbTRkIf
The Euros are so incompetent that they went all-in on ousting Viktor Orbán, only to find out that their supposed champion is even more hostile to them than Orbán was.
🇭🇺 HUGE! Magyar Péter suggests Orbán Viktor to run for EU President against Ursula in 2029.
— Based Hungary 🇭🇺 (@HungaryBased) April 19, 2026
"Orbán Viktor can become the European Union President."
"He has a vision and a hardline-policy towards Migration." pic.twitter.com/HuiL1gM8qv
Orbán as EU president. Can it get any funnier?
The core Europeans and the transnationalists they represent are on the wrong side of almost everything.
Brother, the history of Spain is literally spending hundreds of years to exile oppressive Islamists to take their country back. https://t.co/4kpHjz21cB
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 19, 2026
Siding with Hezbollah is perfectly in line with the path they are on.
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