Right, so I've got a little time to kill*, and I decided to revive this thread and give my full opinion (or lack thereof, as you will see).
First of all, I am rather pleased to see that both sides appear to have agreed on a ceasefire. That is a step in the right direction.
Now, I do not stand on anybody's side here. The reason is very simple. The Hezbollah is firing rockets into Israeli cities, killing hundreds of innocent people and driving them out of their homes. They inflict pain and fear in all of Israel's population, just like the suicide bombers of the Hamas or Islamic Jihad do. They are, by all rights, called terrorists. Terrorists cause terror, and that's what the Hezbollah is doing.
Israel is defending itself. It feels threatened in its existence, because it is surrounded by countries and people who think the Israeli state should be destroyed and its people should be driven to the sea. I do not claim that every single person living around Israel thinks so. After all, there are formal and effective peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Many people in countries like Syria or Iran could probably not care less for Israel. However, there are also many enemies all around, and many of them carry weapons, be it a belt with dynamite, be it a katyusha, be it a bomber plane. Israel feels threatened and feels it must defend itself.
I believe that Israels actions against Lebanon are thus understandable, because the Hezbollah (mis)uses the country's infrastructure for its own causes. Granted, the infrastructure is also used by innocent people. I do believe that Israel is going the wrong way about it, but what the leaders and most of the people probably feel that it's either to shoot or be shot. The Israelis don't want to be victims ever again.
I don't have a solution. I don't stand on anybody's side. Except maybe on that of the innocent who suffer, no matter whether they're Israeli or Lebanese.
Will a UN corps bring peace? I doubt it.
Damn, that was shallow.
*I am at work right now. My job at the moment is to convert an Excel spreadsheet of 14720 pages into a pdf file. It is done automatically, but page by page, so basically, all I can do is sit by and watch that nothing goes wrong. What makes it even worse is that it goes through all 14720 pages twice, once to convert them and once to tag them individually (at least that's the current standing, I wouldn't be too surprised if something else happened afterwards). Just to make sure nobody goes around saying I have too much time on my hands.