[toor]

clearly the Lebanese government and Hezbollah are conflated to a high degree. 24 seats in the Lebanese governement are ownd by Hezbollah as well as two ministeries. The entire southern military prescence is also Hezbollah.

As for disproportionate violence, it seems to me that this is a simple utility problem.

Assume Hezbollah is willing to accept some tradeoff for their lives (let this be X). For israel to deter any future attacks they need to kill more then X. If they dont its utility maximizing for Hez to keep attacking.

Thus as long as Hezbollah values killing others more then they do their own lives, we should always respond "disproportionately".