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To: Garden Rose who wrote (227158)	4/16/2007 1:53:38 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael Totten has a good comment in his blog After the June War of 1967, Israeli General Moshe Dayan was asked how the Israeli Defense Forces beat three armies in six days. What was their secret? His answer: Fight Arabs. In other words, the Israelis aren’t necessarily that good at war. Arab armies in the modern Middle East don’t have a professional military culture, so they’re fairly easy to push over. Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has been trained by the Persians, is a lot tougher. Nothing prevents Arabs as Arabs from being good fighters. It is, rather, a matter of their weak and unprofessional military culture which is changeable and possibly temporary. http://www.michaeltotten.com/ I would add that by any military standard, Israel won this summer's war, even though they did not fight to their usual standards and Hizbullah made good use of civilian human shields and a controlled press, their best weapons. Don't believe the Hizbullah-generated propaganda. Arabs are past masters at spinning survival into claims of victory. Arabs all learn about their "great victory" in 1973.