How is Hizbollah contained by a political process? The same way that the PLO is? Hizbollah's land claims are real, and are basically identical with those of the PLO -- that Israel doesn't exist, that every bit of Israel is actually Arab territory seized by European non-Moslem non-Arab imperialists.
But I agree, Hizbollah won't stop unless it is annihilated -- and the same goes for the PLO.
Hizbollah has only two alternatives: either it continues as a political unarmed party with transparent finances and activities, contained within its country, after being held accountable for what it is accountable for, or it simply gets spanked. It is still time for them to make the good choice. It is not up to me to determine when it would be too late for them.
Technically speaking Hizbollah is not similar by definition to the PLO. It is a theocratic shiite party, whereas the PLO was, at least when I fought it before 1982, a secular, while leaning towards sunni islam, terrorist organization.
Now you begin to find out what stays between sunnis and shiites in Iraq. As for Hizbollah claiming non Lebanese land, that is a capital error from them. Even, as a Lebanese party, its unilateral decisions and behaviors are being challenged by other Lebanese political entities, now that Syria withdrew from Lebanon.