My point about a permanent peace treaty is separate from Hezbollah. Yes, Hezbollah’s weapons would have to be dealt with. But Lebanon has refused to even negotiate a treaty until the Chebaa Farms dispute is settled. All I’m saying is that a point of contention that has been unresolved for years may be on the verge of being resolved — removing one more obstacle to some sort of permanent settlement.

Jimmy, Hezbollah may be able to re-arm. But if they resume attacks on Israel, Lebanon will be responsible — something that pointedly was NOT the case as long as Lebanon refused to assume control of its southern border region. That is a fundamental change in the chess board. I think Hezbollah will find its freedom to operate highly constrained compared to what it had before the fighting broke out.

It’s worth a try. Worst case, we get what appears to be your preferred scenario: continued fighting. As far as the ceded territory, if things go bad Israel can simply retake it. It’s not like either Lebanon or Hezbollah could hold it for long in the face of a determined Israeli assault.

no, the main obstacle is that Hezbollah members regularly attempt to kill Israeli civilians by launching rockets at small towns.

Please, call a spade a spade here - failure to identify real problems makes them that much less likely to be solved.

Round two, isn’t in Israeli favor. The old sayin ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try again’… well that reminds me of ‘the fool who presists in his folley will become wise’… after all the wars Israel has been into wars since its creation, remains unwise to move towards peace diplomatically. They finally got an obvious blow from Hezbollah that the world hinted that Israel can not achieve peace through war.

Hezbollah can now freely re-arm, they will be able to use the Lebanese army and the UN for cover, they’ve got new territory they can use to stage terror attacks, and the Israeli soldiers are still at Allah’s mercy.

Get ready for round 2.