They want to invade and occupy and then only withdraw if international UN forces “secure” the area so that hezb does not occupy. However, unlikely Lebanon will agree to that- so it will turn into a guerilla warfare and Israel will be driven back as they won’t be able to withstand that. The initial attack will be expensive, the ongoing occupation of the buffer zone will be even more. Lebanon will have open supply lines that cannot be interdicted that successfully.
If Israel does attack- then regular Lebanese army must get involved to try and stop that. They can’t afford to sit around with their fingers up their bums doing nothing and allow Israel to destroy the entire country.
People who say they are weak and can’t do anything, are missing the point. You have to resist with what you have to try increase the cost such that the occupation is short lived as possible and as expensive as possible. The armed forces of Lebanon have a duty to their people and country to defend Lebanon.
Countries with far less have shown more spine to resist their occupiers than the armed forces of Lebanon have. Quite shameful if they dont.
I find this entire situation ridiculous. Firstly, Israel wants Hezbollah on the northern side of the Litani River, per the UN agreement, so making a situation where Israel is engaged in combat in the north of Lebanon or in Beirut is just nonsense. Second, it is extremely unlikely that the Lebanese army would get involved, as they are pretty anti-Hezbollah. We the out siders seemed to leave out the massive strife between the Lebanese Christian and Muslim populations. LAF ( Lebanese Armed forces) doesn’t fight Israel.