Justified, Essential, and Timely

The IDF is not fighting a small guerrilla organization. It is dealing with a trained, skilled, well-organized, highly motivated infantry that is equipped with the cream of the crop of modern weaponry from the arsenals of Syria, Iran, Russia, and China, and which is very familiar with the territory on which it is fighting. In such a showdown, the going is very slow, and, sadly, you must also pay a heavy price in terms of casualties.

The first Lebanon war in 1982 achieved its goal: the Palestine Liberation Organization's removal from Lebanese soil.