Not suggesting a civil war in Lebanon, I was pointing out many Lebanese have reason to 'betray' Hezbollah and thus Israel's intelligence efforts bear more fruit.

Israel also is aware that Lebanon is a sovereign country and there is no scenario where a long term occupation would be envisaged. It is politically unacceptable, though, for Israelis in northern Israel to be displaced for a long time too.

Hezbollah taught Israel a lesson in 2006, which is why Gaza resembles Carthage( I wrote an article about it). If Israel needs to turn southern Lebanon into a parking lot, to create a buffer, it will. It is no longer desiring to go door to door to minimise casualties on both sides, it will use its superior air power and artillery to flatten an area before ground incursion.

The stakes are much higher with Lebanon and Hezbollah has been feared much more as a fighting force. The fact almost every senior leader of it has been eliminated, only those not trusted with a pager or walkie talkie being left, and thousands missing hands, eyes and genitals- means Israel has a limited window of opportunity to get into every bunker, tunnel and stockpile and destroy them in southern Lebanon. This would then fulfill UN resolution 1701 and I don't expect another Golan. Israel would then quit the incursion.