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Originally Posted by Nephythys

and Lebanon continues shelling Israel- do you think they will simply stop?

That would be the point of a total cease-fire. I'm not a fan of either side, truly, but I get angry when I hear about the US policy here being to encourage both sides to keep lobbing rockets at each other until we can work out a good long-term solution.

I understand Israel doesn't trust Hezbolla to actually disarm, even in an agreement, so they want to destroy their capabilities. I'm not sure how much damage they're doing to Hezbollah, but they're certainly killing Lebanon.

As far as the civilians still being there, they are really between two very nasty choices. Stay in your home and be bombed, or leave on a road that's being bombed, knowing that your leaving will be a vote to give the territory on which you live to Israel in the eventual (hoped for ) agreement. That is one of the things that happened last time- the civilians left, and Israel used that as a reason to take the "vacant" land.