The Environmental Group That Gives Cover to Hizballah in Lebanon

Last month, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (known as UNIFIL)—tasked with keeping the peace between Israel and Hizballah—made an uncharacteristically bold intervention. Peacekeepers trimmed trees in the no-man’s land on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border. The trees had been planted by an environmental nonprofit called Green Without Borders (GWB)—which is in fact a front for Hizballah—in order to obscure the IDF’s security cameras. While Jerusalem has repeatedly complained to the United Nations about GWB’s activities, little more has been done besides trimming a few trees, as Matthew Levitt and Samantha Stern explain: