"Peace for Galilee" was an unjust, aggressive war. The massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps were war crimes. Likud has a war criminal at its head, and I would not consider it an example of a "former terrorist organization which morphed into a political party."
But the fact that Ariel Sharon heads Likud and the Israeli government does no more to turn Hezbollah into a "legitimate civilian" organization than the fact of Bloody Sunday does to turn the IRA into a Benevolent Society.
Brad DeLong