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why would israel want to annex territory in Lebanon? Israel has fought in southern lebanon at least 2 times since I have been alive to fight hezbullah, they always go in, try to remove hezbullah and go back. From a geopolitical perspective what would israel gain by permanently annexing a this area?

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> why would israel want to annex territory in Lebanon?

Why are Israeli settlers annexing land in the West Bank? Why is the right wing government letting them?

these two issues are completely different. judea and samaria do not equal lebanon, ideologically or geopolitically whatsoever.

Israeli military launching incursions into lebanon to fight hezbullah and prevent them from launching rockets randomly into israel (these rockets killing many arabs as well), is not the same as the squabbles of a small minority of civilians in disputed territory within israel proper.

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