Hizbullah didn't "stop" Israel, though they will claim it - Where are the Israelis? Still in Israel? No, they hold Lebanon south of the Litani, that's Hizbullahland.
The problem with fighting Arabs is that they are masters of claiming defeats are really victories, like Egypt did in 1973, so you have to smash them unequivocally in order to register a defeat, which Israel didn't manage to do. Doesn't mean that Israel lost in any conventional military sense. Hizbullah lost much infrastructure, tunnels, rockets, rocket launchers, and trained fighters, many times more than the Israelis, probably. Hizbullah isn't hiding its casulaties because the numbers look good.
Debka, an Israeli source which is usually full of worry & doom and gloom, reports that Iran is hopping mad that Nasrallah wasted all those nice rockets Iran had given him over a stupid war about captured Israelis. Iran had counted on the deterrent force of those rockets to prevent an Israeli or American strike on its nuclear program.
I know you keep hearing that Hizbullah is still shooting Katyushas, but Katyushas, though easy to hide, can't hit anything except by luck. The medium and long-range rockets, the rockets that could have hit Tel Aviv, are out of action, because Israel concentrated on bombing their launchers. You just haven't seen the pictures because Hizbullah only allowed journalists to take pictures of civilian buildings, women and children. |
