Handing It To The Lebanese Army

"Lebanon Army Dismantles Eight Rockets Aimed at Israel"
A8, Friday 12/26/08
By Robert F. Worth

That UNIFIL and the Lebanese army have failed to prevent Hezbollah's rearming is an essential point made by Worth. Yet two paragraphs later, Worth ends the piece by airing Lebanon's accusation that Israel has "violated [its] airspace with jet flyovers" without stating Israel's reason for doing so: to monitor the arms transfers to Hezbollah that UNIFIL and the Lebanese army are supposed to be preventing.

It's remarkable that the two-year rearming of Hezbollah with new, sophisticated Iranian weapons has been rendered a non-story, yet eight Katyusha rockets (we're told through a statement from the Lebanese army) found and taken down by the Lebanese army elicits a large headline.