09-28-2024, 07:00 PM
Currently Hezbollah appears to be on the "backfoot", so should the Israeli army (Israel Defense Forces) attack Hezbollah to seek to force it back to the Litani river in Lebanon, thus obliging Hezbollah to comply with the provisions of United Nations resolution 1701?
In my personal opinion (though to be fair its none of my business), I feel - No!
Hezbollah constitutes part of the Iranian professional army, well equipped by Iran with modern weapons and ammunition of all sorts. It is illegally-occupying southern Lebanon against the majority wishes of the Lebanese people, even though it is allied with the Lebanese Amal party.
Hezbollah constitutes an Iranian illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon.
Any Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon would be unsustainable because the Israeli force would then be obliged to stay, to enforce Hezbollah's absence from the border with Israel.
Were the IDF not to do as well as they might be expected to do in any such action, then Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups like Hamas and Fatah, and countries in the region (with or without current peace treaties with Israel), would all: "sense weakness".
If Hezbollah were to make the mistake of invading Israel, the IDF is well capable of repelling them, bearing in mind also that Hezbollah lacks support in Lebanon, because Hezbollah's illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon is resented by most Lebanese people.
Neither Israel nor Lebanon have any claims on each other's territory and it is likely that without the Iranian/Hezbollah illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon, there might otherwise have been peace between Lebanon and Israel. As it is, it is Lebanon's responsibility that since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, Hezbollah has been firing missiles at Israel.
Rather than forcing Hezbollah back from the Lebanese border with Israel, Israel might instead consider it should keep pounding-away at Hezbollah; an expensive process yet one not risking IDF soldiers.
In my personal opinion (though to be fair its none of my business), I feel - No!
Hezbollah constitutes part of the Iranian professional army, well equipped by Iran with modern weapons and ammunition of all sorts. It is illegally-occupying southern Lebanon against the majority wishes of the Lebanese people, even though it is allied with the Lebanese Amal party.
Hezbollah constitutes an Iranian illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon.
Any Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon would be unsustainable because the Israeli force would then be obliged to stay, to enforce Hezbollah's absence from the border with Israel.
Were the IDF not to do as well as they might be expected to do in any such action, then Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups like Hamas and Fatah, and countries in the region (with or without current peace treaties with Israel), would all: "sense weakness".
If Hezbollah were to make the mistake of invading Israel, the IDF is well capable of repelling them, bearing in mind also that Hezbollah lacks support in Lebanon, because Hezbollah's illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon is resented by most Lebanese people.
Neither Israel nor Lebanon have any claims on each other's territory and it is likely that without the Iranian/Hezbollah illegal-occupation of southern Lebanon, there might otherwise have been peace between Lebanon and Israel. As it is, it is Lebanon's responsibility that since the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, Hezbollah has been firing missiles at Israel.
Rather than forcing Hezbollah back from the Lebanese border with Israel, Israel might instead consider it should keep pounding-away at Hezbollah; an expensive process yet one not risking IDF soldiers.