BEIRUT — Resolution 1701: All of 1701 and nothing but 1701. As Hezbollah's response to Israel's assassination of its military chief Fouad Shukur in Beirut's southern suburbs threatens to escalate into a full-scale war, and as the international community pushes in Doha for a ceasefire in Gaza (and by extension, southern Lebanon), Beirut is more committed than ever to the 1701 UN Security Council resolution. Adopted in August 2006, Resolution 1701 ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah, on the condition that the group would withdraw behind the Litani River in exchange for Israeli to stop its violations of Lebanese sovereignty, along with a massive deployment of the Lebanese army and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the border region. Although the resolution has never been fully implemented on the ground, Lebanon's Speaker of...