From: "Rich Gauszka" 

or you've just seen the creation of a pan-Arab army in Hezbollah  <
something Gamal Abdel Nasser only dreamed of >


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "In Israel, the outcome is likely to afflict Olmert."
>
> As it should. He knew what he had to do and he didn't do it, it still
> needs to be done, but he won't be in charge when it is done after this
> latest sham cease-fire falls apart.
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>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44de7bd7{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Chutzpah has its limits," analyst Ari Shavit wrote Friday in the
>> newspaper Haaretz. "You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising
>> victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15260922.htm
>>
>> "The expectations were too high," said Uri Dromi, a former Israeli
>> government spokesman who now serves as director of international outreach
>> for The Israel Democracy Institute. "All that talk about defeating
>> Hezbollah was far-fetched from day one."
>>
>>
>> The winner, said Dromi, was Nasrallah. "He stood up against Israel, no
>> question about it," he said. "And this, in a way, was a
setback of the
>> Israeli deterrence."
>>
>> ..
>>
>> srael's biggest concession was over the fate of the two soldiers, whose
>> release isn't required under the resolution. It's more likely they'll be
>> released in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> Because Israel always viewed the battle not just as a fight for the
>> soldiers, but as a war against anti-Israeli forces in Syria and Iran, it
>> wanted to send a decisive military message.
>>
>>
>> But Hezbollah displayed a resiliency that surprised Israelis, firing
>> scores of rockets daily at northern Israel and putting up a stiff fight
>> on the ground thanks to a web of tunnels and bunkers and a stockpile of
>> automatic and anti-tank weapons.
>>
>>
>> Before the war, the Lebanese government had been in negotiations to get
>> Hezbollah to give up its weapons. Hezbollah, which has representatives in
>> the government, always resisted on the grounds that it was the only
>> military force able to secure southern Lebanon - and its performance over
>> the past four weeks backs that up.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Military professionalism has been the exclusive property of
the Israelis
>> for the last 40 years, and that's why they were succeeding," said Jamil
>> Mroue, editor of The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper in
>> Lebanon.
>>
>>
>> "Now they (Hezbollah) are exhibiting some of those traits as an Arab
>> army."
>>
>> ..
>>
>> In Israel, the outcome is likely to afflict Olmert.
>>
>>
>> "Chutzpah has its limits," analyst Ari Shavit wrote Friday in the
>> newspaper Haaretz. "You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising
>> victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power."
>>
>>
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