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I hope it doesn't either. However, our Iranain playmates are not exactly rational by western standards. At some point in time, one of them will feel the need to kill an infidal. Finn, Italian Belguim, it's all the same to them. The meer presence of the UN will be interferrence. So at some point in time, it's inevitable that the UN troops will be shot at. If a UN patrol stumbles across a Hezebolla truck full of weapons and looks the other way, then the IDF will kill them, and rightfully so.
As a philosophical question, if the UN isn't going to honor it's own resolutions, why should anyone else? It most certainly is the UN's job to disarm Hezebollah. They made it their job with UN SC resolution 1551( IIRC). If those resolutions are worthless, doesn't that make the UN worthless?
No, the UNIFL will get shot at. That is inevitable. If your politicians are telling your otherwise, they are fools of the highest order or lying their teeth out. Either way, time to get rid of them.
Nothing new in any of this. Lebanon is about to return to it's natural position, cockpit of Europe, Africia and Asia. As the terminex of the silk road, it has been fought over for the last 5500 years. The oldest known writing is a cuniform tablet recording a battle over Lebanon.

What is new is that us armchair generals can participate this time. Couldn't do that in 3500 B.C., or at least I don't remember doing that.