A war that benefits only Iran

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In 2006, after the last clash between Israel and Hezbollah, UNSC 1701 ordered disarmament of armed groups including Hezbollah, with no armed forces other than UNIFIL and Lebanese military south of the Litani River. Hezbollah's forward position is in direct contravention to this.
Hezbollah is a terrorist paramilitary and Iranian vassal parastate that has captured the Lebanese republic, terrorizing and assassinating anyone who challenges it. Hence the terrified performance of its president, ministers etc. Hezbollah was a major perpetrator of the biggest mass killing of civilians in the Arab world in modern times – the slaughter of 500,000 Syrians in alliance with the Assad dictatorship, Iran and Russia. So the narrative that Hezbollah has been provoked etc etc is inaccurate. Whatever one's view of the dire Netanyahu govt, Israel has no wish for a northern war; it has no presence in Lebanon and obviously after enduring the trauma and humiliation of the 7 Oct fiasco had no need for any more war.
No country on earth would tolerate an 8000-missile bombardment that forced it to evacuate an entire region. Israel was unable to respond earlier. Now it is doing so to end an unprovoked bombardment over many months that is sadly overdue.
It is a tragedy that Israeli civilians have been terrorized all this time; it is tragic too that Lebanon, once a thriving multi ethnic multi faith multi party system, has been sadly hijacked and captured by a ruthless terrorist vassal of Iran and that a few brutal potentates at the top of Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran are recklessly sacrificing Lebanese security and Lebanese civilians on the altar of anti-American, anti-Western democracy, anti-Israel 'resistance' and Iranian imperialism.
It is worth repeating that Lebanon has no strategic clash with Israel; Israel occupies no part of Lebanon; Lebanon has no interest in a war with Israel. In fact Lebanon and Israel should not coexists but be close allies in a normal world. Hezbollah's forward positions are in contravention of UN1701 that ordered their withdrawal north of this area.
And this is entirely a war launched on 8 October by Hezbollah and Iran that benefits only Hezbollah and its masters in Iran and only destroys the innocent civlians of Lebanon and Israel and noone else. Every civilian who suffers or dies in this conflict is one civilian too many! Plse may this end soon.