Recent articles in the corporate media cite UN resolution 1559 for its insistance on disarming Hezbollah. But the articles omit mention of the resolution's equal insistance on the withdrawal of "all non-Lebanese forces from Lebanon"--including Israeli forces. These articles and the statements by US government and Israeli officials focus on the portion of UN resolution 1559 which they insist "called for the disbanding of Hezbollahs fighting force and all other militias and the extension of Lebanese government control over the entire country" ("Testing How Long the Cease Fire Can Last," New York Times, August 15, 2006) But they do not mention that Israel violated this same UN resolution when it bombed and invaded Lebanon. As the sequence in UN resolution 1559 suggests, getting rid of foreign forces logically precedes the disbanding and disarmament of militias defending Lebanon from those foreign forces.