Israel: Troops Will Remain in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza ‘Until Further Notice’

Pro-Israel narrative

Decades of failed U.N. resolutions and broken Lebanese government promises left Hezbollah free to turn southern Lebanon into a missile base aimed at Israeli homes. Controlling territory up to the Litani River is the only defensible border Israel has ever had, as Ben-Gurion recognized over a century ago. When terror groups attack from sovereign land, that land becomes subject to the rules of war.