mmmmm!!!
I seem to remember that Israel,having devastated the Lebanon once before back in the early 1880s then created a buffer zone in south Lebanon run by a thuggish crew called the South Lebanese Army....backed up, of course, by the Israelis.The prison it kept in that buffer zone [al khaim was a byword for torture ].

The SLA collapsed about 5 years ago and the Israelis were finally driven out of the Lebanon 18 years after its invasion had been launched.

The buffer zone idea did not work out then and a new buffer zone would still create enormous military and political problems for Israel...and despite moving north the buffer zone would still involve sharing a border withthe Lebanon and presumably Hezbollah.

In the meantime its deliberate and callous destruction of the Lebanon will cause even more people to support the fight against Israel.Its strategy is leading into a brutal dead end.
hugo