There are a lot of reasons that hezbollah might agree to – and actually hold to (that’s the important part) a ceasefire with Israel.
The main reason, it seems to me, can only be that this terror organization needs time to rearm/regain its ability to try and kill as many Jews as possible.
So what caused this agreement? It wasn’t the killing of Hezbollah’s leaders, they kept fighting after that. Ditto for the destruction of its communications capability (remember those cell phones and pagers?).
But hezbollah did agree to a ceasefire after this – as described in Greg Norman’s article for Fox News:
Israel’s military says it destroyed Hezbollah’s “largest precision-guided missiles manufacturing site” as a lawmaker is vowing that the terrorist group will “fight and resist” any attacks on Lebanon.
The announcement from the Israel Defense Forces came as both sides entered a ceasefire deal, which is now in its third day Friday. During the 60-day first phase of the deal, Hezbollah and Israeli forces are to withdraw from south Lebanon, and the Lebanese military is to step in.
“Hezbollah’s largest precision-guided missile manufacturing site, 1.4km wide and 70m underground, was struck and dismantled by IAF fighter jets,” the IDF said earlier this week.
“Precision-guided missiles and surface-to-surface missiles were just a few components of Hezbollah’s deadly arsenal that were produced at this site near the Syria-Lebanon border,” it added.
Despite the article’s vague reference to a “lawmaker” (whatever that means) vowing hezbollah will fight on, it’s not likely. Fighting on is pretty hard to do – at least in the near term – when your source of heavy artillery has been blown to kingdom come. And yes, of course, if/when hezbollah regains access to this kind of weaponry things will almost certainly change.
But for the short run, maybe this means innocent people on both sides of the Israel/Lebanon border can at least try to retrieve some kind of normalcy to their lives. And maybe – however slight the likelihood – the people of Lebanon might now consider working with Israel to get rid of this terrorist group on their land; the one whose nonstop bombing of northern Israel is 100% responsible for Israel’s reaction; the one they are so severely affected by.
I’m not at all confident. But at least we can hope.
