Does Israel harass Jordan, Egypt or Turkey?

The only logical way forward for Lebanon is to sign a peace treaty with Israel. Probably Syria will have to sign one first to make this possible. But, the sooner the better.

Lebanon, like Jordan, would still have a defense force – but it would not be constantly threatening its neighbours. (Which is what this word “resistance” means.

I think that is the wrong question. Why the option of defending ourselves always means Hezbo’s reality?

I think we can use Hezbo’s capabilities under the Lebanese Government authority. No body is saying that Hezbo has to give their arsenal away and we have to raise a white flag. Although Hezbo is trying to tell people that. That is Bull Shit.

The only thing this particular arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has in common with pre-1948 Zionism is the illegal arms.
Perhaps you might find solace in knowing that in exile, you can at least retain the good parts of the Lebanese culture and pass them on. Who knows, maybe 2000 years from now your offspring will return to the desert that was Lebanon and make it bloom again.

Oh, and if you must compare Hizballeh to Jews, compare them to the Sicarii: murderous thugs high on religious fervor and power, killing anyone not them, destroying anything they cannot own.

And it must be tough, even dangerous to be a dissident against resistance and de facto perpetual war.

How could a movement to move to peace even get started?

Maybe. The conflict expressed on this blog is that between a tribal grab-it-all-for-my-group mentality and one based on rule-of-law. The solution to the Lebanese dilemma thus seems obvious to me – but it requires a change in thinking by Lebanese themselves, especially by exiles like PR and AK.

Israel has overflights precisely because of Hizballah.

You talk about Israel being irrational. Let us not forget, the last war was due to irrational actions from our side, not theirs.

If Hizballah really wants to mess around with them, well, all is fair in love and war. We made Hizballah, whether we like to admit it or not. And our creation will be our downfall unless we dismantle them. Unfortunately, we can’t. They are the only group in Lebanon with a movement, a core belief. To me they resemble the Zionist movement pre-1948. Funny how we are our own worst enemy. We are forever doomed to live in exile in Ghana, UAE, USA, Canada, France because that is how we shaped our own destiny. All the while, Iranian influence moves to shores of the Mediterranean. And we sit here, writing about it.

Although the U.N. currently disagrees (it has not yet justified its position), paragraph 15 of UNSC 1701 can be interpreted as authorizing Israeli overflights. Israel certainly has seen it that way since day one. It is one of the few parts of 1701 that explicitly goes beyond Chapter 6 limitations.