That Lebanon had the "right to defend" itself against Israel.

It was 1982 and Israel had invaded Lebanon in an attempt to quash the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was formed in 1964 with the goal to destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state.

After all, not only were 711,000 Palestinians forced to flee Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Palestine was denied the right to become an independent state after the fall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire during World War I.

The British, who took control of Palestine as well as three other Ottoman territories after the war, allowed those other territories to become Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

But they insisted that Palestine remain under British rule for the sole reason of turning it into a national homeland for the Jewish people, according to the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

So even before the Holocaust, European Jews began emigrating to the British Mandate of Palestine, creating friction with Palestinian Muslims who believed their land was being swiped from them. After all, they believed they had the “right to defend” their land.

Now that Israel is using timeless mantra that they have the "right to defend" itself as they kill hundreds of civilians, many who are women and children, do they really believe they are going to end the violence?

After all, even if they do eliminate Hezbollah, there is no doubt that a new organization will form from all this death and destruction whose sole intent will be to see the "destruction of Israel".