Do you think Israel will take offensive against Lebanon?

Well...I just heard it from NEWS. Said before US invade Iraq, Hussein gave WMDs to Syria then Syria gave WMDs to Hezbollah. Is that true?

They aren't going to, international pressure is going to stop this war very soon and an inland invasion would take too long.

Consider if they did invade, they wouldn't destroy hezbollah since they couldn't last time and it would be twice as hard now that hezbollah has better weapons and organization. Israel just wants to do as much damage as possible and then deal with the criticism later.

The likely outcome will probably a UN monitored border between lebanon and israel and the kidnapped soldiers will return as part of the cease fire terms.

The likely outcome will probably a UN monitored border between lebanon and israel

ahahha, cause the UN was so effective this time. laugh.

I am willing to bet that Israel is going to invade Lebanon. I don't think Hezbollah is gonna get away with launching missiles. The airstrikes don't seem to be doing much so I think Israel is gonna go with plan B (ground invasion).

ahahha, cause the UN was so effective this time. laugh.

Gee, don't you think that the UN would have to have troops there to be effective? They've done a good job with the golan heights and i see no reason why they can't do the same for southern lebanon's border.

Hizballah can be negotiated with to allow UN forces in the region since it would make it easier for them to carry on. Not an ideal situation, but if the lebanese army just had some more power they could play a part in disarming hizballah so that this doesn't happen again. If israel wants death and destruction then they don't need the UN, if they want peace, i'm sorry but they're going to have to negotiate, like they did before many times in past.

UN there is the worst idea.
UN means letting Hezbollah keep doing what they're doing and stopping Israel from doing anything to defend herself or attack Hezbollah which is what they should do here and now.

Gee, don't you think that the UN would have to have troops there to be effective? They've done a good job with the golan heights and i see no reason why they can't do the same for southern lebanon's border.

Yeh, theyve been there for 30 years and havent done jack.

Hell the Israeli soldiers got kidnapped within eye sight of a UN position.

Bring in NATO.

You can't do that if none of the NATO members have been directly attacked, even the situation is Afghanistan is sketchy at best. If the countries in the region would agree to UN buffer zone then you can go about doing something about hezbollah domestically with more aid to Lebanon.

UN troops can succeed if they are provided with proper assistance of host nations and international cooperation is good. This is one of those cases where there might be enough diplomacy to get that done since lebanon would be one less place to worry about.

They acted in Kosovo were no NATO countries were directly attacked.

The only way UN troops can suceed is if there not controlled by the UN.

Originally Posted by WarMachine

You can't do that if none of the NATO members have been directly attacked

Wrong: Kosovo.

Originally Posted by WarMachine

UN troops can succeed if they are provided with proper assistance of host nations and international cooperation is good

Dangerous Wishful Thinking.