Israel just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East.
Hezbollah, a massive Lebanese terrorist group that is really an Iranian proxy group, is a party in the Lebanese government. It has been named as a State Department-designated terror organization as well as an Arab League-designated terrorist organization. Lebanon has been turned into a chaotic hellhole by Iranian and Syrian intervention in the state, and Hezbollah is a major part of the government there.
In 2000, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon, which had been used by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah as a launching point for terror attacks on Israel. Israel did not want to police that area of Lebanon after having fought to keep a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to make sure southern Lebanon was not used as a launching off point.
So in 2000, Israel completely withdrew in the same way they withdrew from…
