Someone gets it

Israel should never ever try to play the Lebanese against each other because it always backfires. Micheal Totten, an American who lived in Lebanon explains:

The biggest reason, though, that most Lebanese won’t side with Israel against Hezbollah is because Lebanese fear civil war more than they fear anything else. They have good reasons, too. The 1975–1990 civil war wrecked far more destruction in Lebanon than any foreign invasion.
 
“Better a thousand Israeli invasions than another civil war,” is a refrain I heard more than once from Lebanese who detest the very existence of Hezbollah. Israeli military and defense officials would be well advised to tattoo that phrase on their foreheads before trying again to use force inside Lebanon to alter its politics. Israelis don’t have to like this feature of Lebanese political culture, but they do need to understand that it is a feature.