In my view, the IDF have the same right to overfly Lebanese airspace as the United States had the right to overfly Soviet airspace with U-2 surveillance aircraft. Lebanon is a haven and refuge for Hizbollocks and other assorted terrorists groups, Lebanon is essentially a puppet state of Syria, and Syria in turn is aligned with Iran.
In other words, Israel has every right to obtain up to date intelligence data any way they have to get it, including overflying Lebanon if need be.
If the Lebanese don’t like it, screw ‘em.
The main reason that Israel doesn’t get overrun by an enemy ground assault is that the Israeli Airforce can break-up any forming attack before it ever gets near the Israeli frontier. Israel maintains an umbrella over the entire Middle East from Turkey to Egypt, and from Cyprus to Iraq (and the Gulf Emirates). They can, and sometimes do, go where they wish.
No in a perfect world overflying a neighbor is illegal, but when the policy of those neighbors is to defeat your country and liquidate your population, we’ll it’s a test of raw military power, isn’t it?
While I agree that the hezzie’s can go pound sand you have to agree that there was a reason we flew U-2’s over the USSR and not something lower and slower.
“In my view, the IDF have the same right to overfly Lebanese airspace as the United States had the right to overfly Soviet airspace with U-2 surveillance aircraft.”
None whatsoever? Remember you used the word “right.” I think that may be the problem here. No one has the right to trespass against you. Sometimes they have a good reason to do so, but not a “right.”