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Israel shares political borders with five different Arab entities, but there is no line about which there are as many UN Security Council resolutions as the Israel-Lebanon border. The presence of international forces on Israel’s borders is not a new phenomenon; it has been a fact of life since 1948. However, only in the case of Lebanon is it the result not of the actions of neighboring governments that are entities with a clearly defined address and bearing political responsibility, rather the result of sub-state, non-governmental entities with their own agendas, which are not necessarily congruent with the agendas of the sovereign governments from whose territories they operate.