however, some things have to be acknowledged.
- lebanon is a failed state
- lebanon is unable to stop hezbollah
- the muslim colonization of southern lebanon is unsustainable
- israel has suffered terribly from the oct 7th massacre, and some increase in territory is morally justified as a reward for that suffering
when you put all of those things together, israel's need to take control of this territory and the region's need to decolonize it of recent islamization in the face of the collapse of the federal authority actually make the idea fairly reasonable.
however, israel should be making an attempt to get the people out of lebanon, and not just pushing them north. the people being driven out of southern lebanon right now are overwhelmingly not lebanese, but mostly syrian or palestinian. a better destination for the shiites, which is most of them, is iraq. israel should help get them there.