Destroying Lebanon to Force an Israel-Hezbollah Agreement Is a Failure of a Strategy
Unlike Hamas, the Lebanese militant group will be Israel's main negotiating partner even after a war with it. The best way for Israel to get Hezbollah to hold its fire, is to reach an agreement in Gaza
"Does Hassan Nasrallah – his plan, his party, his resistance – even consider supplying the needs of the 'steadfastness' [of the Lebanese people]? Are there medical resources to treat the wounded and those burned as a result of the war? Are the hospitals in [southern Lebanon] prepared for hundreds if not thousands of wounded people, at all levels of injury? Are there alternative hospitals in the event that the hospitals are bombed in the all-out war? Have field hospitals been readied? Is there sufficient food for residents of Lebanon in general, residents of southern Lebanon in particular, and especially for the Shi'ites? Have the gas stations put aside enough gasoline and will they be able to supply gas to the ambulances and civil defense vehicles when needed? Have alternatives been prepared for bridges and main roads if they are bombed? ... Have sufficient quantities of flour been put aside to enable the supply of bread, or will the southerners be abandoned to their fate as the residents of Gaza were abandoned to starvation?