Another May 17 agreement will not lead to better results, and even if Hezbollah is decimated, as was the PLO was in 1983, the state's weakness and the absence of a capable military will lead to the emergence of another one. Another April 1996 agreement to co-exist with Lebanon's right to resistance outside of a relation with a sovereign state will lead to another round of violence down the line. The best chance that Israel has today is a return to the armistice agreement of 1949, and that could be a good choice for Lebanon as well.