Hezbollah is supposed to withdraw, then the Lebanese military moves in, and then Israel is to leave. But Hezbollah hasn't fully pulled out and the Lebanese military isn't moving fully in. So, Israel is keeping a few points just inside the border.
If you automatically disbelieve Israel and automatically believe terrorists, you probably won't do what you should do, which is to have a good long look in the mirror.
The fact is that in a lot of situations, they're each doing some jockeying. But it's hard to blame Israel when the response in Israel/Gaza terrirtor to being offered a state alongside a state of Israel in 1947, decades after the Ottoman Empire fell after 3 centuries of ownership/rule- they lived there but it wasn't "their" sovereign land any more than my real estate is my own sovereign nation - was to reject their own state because it meant no Israel, then when Israel was declared anyway in 1948, immediately joining with surrounding Arabs to try to exterminate all the Jews and destroy Israel. Those who know and do not lie about history know that this was a pattern throughout Israel's existence. In modern times, Hezbollah and Hamas, backed by Iran and other regimes, have continually attacked Israel, daring it to respond, knowing that a decent number of people on the western left simply do not care what happens to the Israeli Jews, only ever caring about and usually trusting Hamas to tell them what happened.
(Can you imagine an American president taking Osama Bin Laden's word for what went down somewhere? It'd be even more ridiculous than Trump taking Putin's word over our intelligence community)
So with all that context said, and the context that wasn't said, and in a situation like this, I can absolutely see a country going "no...they lobbed decades of rockets at us, agreed to stop, broke the ceasefire and kept right on lobbing rockets, so we're going to make sure this shit is shut down". And I've never seen any other country told that it simply cannot defend itself if it means casualties and destroyed buildings.
And nothing about Likud's evil wishes, about West Bank settler crimes, about something Ben Gvir once said, none of that changes the actual strategic position Israel is in. Similarly, if we're attacked, nothing about Trump being evil changes the situation we'd find ourselves in or what we have a right to do in response.
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