I tend to agree with Tribesman and Don. (How many times do you see that sentence?)
Except that I would go a little further, and have them restrict activities to defence - whilst helping build up the Lebanese army and security forces, on the basis of a signed peace treaty. Israeli intelligence activities along with Lebanese security forces should be able to root out most military Hezbollah activity before it got to the rocketing stage.
Make Lebanon into an ally, rather than a victim. It was happening, step-by-step. Sadly, now that's another generation of hatred and mistrust created amongst the dust and bodies.
Oh and Israel should pay entirely out of its own pocket for the damage and reconstruction. Maybe by rebuilding Lebanon they might convince some of the Lebanese that they had a future as allies.
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