As far as I know, there has never been a peace treaty with Hezbollah.

Israel had a peace treaty with Hamas which resulted in peace for 16 months until Israel violated the treaty on June 9th with an attack that killed 10 Palistineans:

Hamas ends truce after Israeli attack

Saturday 10 June 2006

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has shelved a 16-month-old truce after Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 10 people, including women and children on a beach outing.

"The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle and that means the earthquake in the Zionist cities will resume and the herds of occupiers have no choice but to prepare the coffins or the departing luggage," Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Friday.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, confirmed the group would renew its attacks.





I guess you didn't hear about this on Fox News or the Rush Limbaugh show?

The kidnapping of an Israeli soldier happened 2 weeks later. The Israeli attack was barely reported by the American media, and so most Americans think the kidnapping was what broke the treaty. I have heard both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity repeat this lie on their programs -- both claimed that the Hamas kidnapping of an Israeli soldier on June 25th was what broke the peace treaty.

So yes, diplomacy does work, even with groups like Hamas. But obviously, if you violate the treaty, it will not work.

And from the same article:

While France, Egypt and Russia condemned the attack, Sean McCormack, spokesman for the US State Department, said: "Let me just state what we have said before: That Israel has a right to defend itself."

No surprise there.

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