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My first response was messy and vague. Allow me to clairify:
-Hezbollah basically acted like a government, sending aid -food and medicine, maintaining houses, hospitals, policing, fighting fires, essentially holding together the infrastructure of Lebanon when the Lebanese government couldn't. For that I commend them. They are not *just* a terrorist organization. They have done a great deal of good for the people of Lebanon, who have been through hell.
- Before the current conflict, the Hezbollah had about a 30% following in Lebanon, based on the best information available. Now, the number is anywhere from 50% to 80% support. This is a massive shift in polularity could become the shift that makes the Hezbollah a perminent part of Lebanese government, as opposed to one part of the whole. I am concerned that instead of becoming the Hezbollah that acts in the best interest of Lebanon, as described above, they will move more into a militaristic stance towards Israel.
-Hezbollah is an organization that has repeatedly turned to terrorism in order to get what they want. Whether the cause is just or not...there is simply no excuse. They have decided that they will place their hatred of Israel over the good of Lebanon, and thus are no longer working towards the ultimate goal of any humanitarian organization: peace. This is hardly the first time Israel has gone apeshit on someone, and there was always that risk in attacking them. Israels military could theoritically go toe to toe with the rest of the Middle East and win at the drop of a hat, but one on one, no Arab country stands a chance. Knowing this, Hezbollah continued their terrorist acts.
Hezbollah is just as much to blame for the dead in Lebanon as the Israeli government. Because of that, I think that the group should be disbanded from pressure from the Lebanese people. If they are strong enough to come out of that horrible civil war, they are strong enough to sacrafice the Hezbollah for the sake of peace.
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