Isreali, Hezbollah, and the U.N.

I ran across this very interesting post at Captain's Quarters via Instapundit on the progress of implementing the cease-fire in Lebannon per the Security Council resolution. It appears that the Lebanese government was suprised by the unanimous approval of the resolution by the Isreali cabinet. At the heart of the matter is the international call for Hezbollah to disarm and allow the Lebanese army control/police the sounthern part of the country. Hezbollah has refused repeatedly in the past to disarm (this is what caused this conflict to be allowed in the first place) and looks reluctant to submit to international demands this time around.

This only proves what I have believe has been lacking in the international demands all along. whether or not you believe the Isreali response was justified or not (I have no doubt), the calls for a immediate cease-fire and diplomatic/political resolution to this conflict have left the status of Hezbollah curiously unaddressed. In the mean time, the implicit implication of the calls, equal in nature if not harsher on Isreal, have concluded that Hezbollah is on par with the soverign state of Isreal. The failure by the International Community to recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization will lead to this resolution failing in its implementation. Terrorists have repeatedly failed to play by the rules, whether that be Geneva Conventions or in Hezbollah's history UN resolutions, and as much as I would like to be wrong I see no change in this policy.

I predict that this UN resolution will suffer the same fate of the last one that addressed Hezbollah, it will get alot of support from the "International Community" yet will prove once again useless. However there is one crucial difference this time around, Isreali will most likely still be under numerous missile attacks and will be compelled by its citizens to take protective/defensive action. If Hezbollah breaks this resolution and continues to attack Isreal it should lose the tacit support from countries calling for Isreali restraint and will be obliterated by the IDF. For the sake of the Isreali and Lebanese citizens caught up in the middle of this I hope this doesn't happen, though it may be the only way for the "International Community" to learn that terrorists are not going to play by the rules and don't want peace.