There's always the hope that the "peace" crowd in the West, which doesn't like Israel a lot to begin with and despises George W. Bush, can be harnessed on behalf of efforts to make Israelis back down -- to make them buy into some sham agreement structured to keep refugees alive, especially the women and children among them. Yes, it's delightful being Hezbollah.
5. If you win, you win. If you lose, you still may win, provided you structure (sheer adamance always helps) the peace agreement as a standoff or "truce." During a truce, the Syrians will resupply you. You can attack again when ready. And all the foregoing advantages obtain again, if not more intensely than ever, your adversaries having shown how fast they will flinch when squeezed. Neat, eh? Neat to be Hezbollah.
Unless...
... Unless your enemy manages somehow to shrug off the admonitions of the watching world, stays after you, chases you down and, despite the formidable odds, kicks the stuffing out of murderers and gangsters, kidnappers, killers of women, killers of children.
The trick is never to discount moral courage -- a virtue less touted in the modern West than in former times and places when good and evil were accounted radically different, and opposed, commodities. Take the Jews of the second century A.D., to whom their captain, Judas Maccabeus, reportedly said (1 Mac. 3:58): "Arm yourselves, and be valiant men, so that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are assembled together against us, to destroy us and our sanctuary." It was an invitation his listeners took up gladly -- United Nations or no United Nations.