"Genauer compared the situation with the US occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan."It seems as though Israel is reaching back into a playbook from the 1980s and 1990s, but it's very unlikely that Prime Minister Netanyahu will be able to achieve his objectives, vis-a-vis Hezbollah."She said there needs to be a focus on "a parallel track of political discussions and negotiations" because a military approach is not going to be able to achieve what the Israeli state hopes it will."Even though Israel has far greater military capability than Hezbollah, which is essentially a quasi-state group, Israel has never managed to fully eliminate Hezbollah's ability to engage in attacks, and never managed to fully degrade and decimate Hezbollah as a fighting force," she said.Farida said Hezbollah was quick to claim Israel's 2000 retreat as a major victory, "not just for Lebanon, but the whole of the Arab world" So on both sides, there's been a very consistent objective on the Hezbollah side to attack and antagonise Israel, and on the Israeli side, trying to eliminate and degrade the military capability of Hezbollah.""Looking at the way that asymmetric conflict tends to work, I don't think that the Israeli government will be successful in (eliminating Hezbollah), but that's certainly what's driving the way that they're now focusing on an additional boots-on-the-ground military occupation of Lebanon."Evacuation orders and strikes in southern Lebanon have already led to a humanitarian crisis in the country, with Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International calling for the protection of medical workers, civilians seeking medical attention, and displaced communities