alt Hacker News> No, the folks up north traded their homes and security for keeping Beirut more or less intact.
Beirut (the parts where Hezbollah has the biggest presence, granted) is bombarded every few days...
> a force that fights no longer for the Lebanese people but entirely for a foreign leader.
This is the standard western/Israeli narrative in that regard. The Lebanese people seem to view that differently.
> though Netanyahu clearly does for personal political reasons.
Israel has to rid itself of Likud.
Netanyahu does lots of stuff for personal reasons, but with regards to the wars, there is little the opposition would do differently.
> Beirut (the parts where Hezbollah has the biggest presence, granted) is bombarded every few days
Not in the way it would be if Lebanon declared war on Israel.
> Lebanese people seem to view that differently
Lebanon is uniquely diverse. The Lebanese I know absolutely see it this way, and with justification. (To be clear, that doesn’t make them peachy towards Israel doing the same.)
> with regards to the wars, there is little the opposition would do differently
Oof, I suspect you’re right. A unilateral course, then: the LAF disarms Hezbollah and then restores the Lebanese state’s monopoly on violence within its borders. Ideally timed to a change in political winds for Tel Aviv in America. Possibly with Turkish or even Saudi support. (Not holding my breath for the EU.)