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VICTORY!! ...but for whom??

Especially after the Qana massacre it seems that Israel is losing the war. The "rulers" all over the world - except the US, GB and Germany - are calling for a immediate cease fire in Lebanon. (BTW.. after the 1996 Qana massacre by IDF israel was also forced by the "world's public opinion" to stop all its military actions there..).

Well, the Israeli PM Olmert said yesterday(local time) that there will be no cease fire NOW and also not in the NEAR FUTURE and today he said "Israel will keep fighting Hizbullah until multinational force deploys in south Lebanon"(and the "intl. community" said they will only deploy troops there when the fighting will be stopped..). But so or so, sooner or later the Isreali govt. will be forced to agree for a cease fire.

And what Israel was achieving with the war?

The first aim, beside to free the two kidnapped soldiers, was the "complete destruction of Hizbullah", so the Israeli media in the first days of the war. After some days of massive bomb attacks against assumed bases of Hizbullah, causing hundreds of civil losses, the new aim was to push Hizbullah back and to destroy their missile/rocket launchers.

Instead to achieve this goals by air attacks IDF ground forces got more and more involved in the battle, with heavy losses on its side.

Now the aim is "just" to push Hizbullah's forces behind the Litani River(about 20 to 40 KM north of the Israeli/Lebanese border). And this goal the IDF must achieve in the next days or coming two weeks. Actually, especially after the experiences in the last fierce battles in some few small border villages - it is impossible!!

Actually, except hundreds of killed Lebanese (mainly) civilians, 700,000 displaced people and a humanitarian desaster.. Israel achieved nothing! The soldiers are still in the hand of Hizbullah, daily Katyushas and other missiles launched by Hizbullah are raining on Isreali villages and towns(only yesterday 210 rockets, according to Israeli media)... And day by day Hizbullah is becoming more and more an "organization of hereos", the "only real resistance" for "the Arab nation and dignity", so a Jordanian bourgeois newspaper.

Finally at the present point Israel got exactly the opposite what they wanted to achieve. Instead of a weak, isolated Hizbullah they have now a strong, in the entire Lebanon, but also the surronding Arab world respected Hizbullah. For example even Israeli Arabs/Palestinians, attacked by Hizbullah missiles, like a short while ago in An-Nasirah/Nazareth, feel not like victims. They just see it as a kind of "friendly fire", so a report on CNN(8.02).

After Hizbullah's first missile, hitting yesterday the West Bank(near Jenin) a "Fatah member related that local residents cheered when they heard the rocket fall and saw the resulting flames. 'Even if it were to fall on our heads, it wouldn’t have spoiled our joy. All of us here are praying for Hizbullah’s success and victory,'" said(ynet, 8.02).

And what will be the result of this developments?

About these - in my opinion - very unattractively consequences I, possibly, will write tomorrow.

IDF paratrooper.

Not happy anymore, not really..

To get an idea of the current situation, please check out following articles:

How Israel's bombing turned Hizbollah leader into a symbol of Muslim pride

(The Independent, GB, 8.02)

A new face to Hezbollah's resistance
(Asia Times, HK/China)

Senior Fatah members: Nasrallah, bomb Tel Aviv (ynet, 8.01)

Palestinian protesters in Ramallah urge Hizbullah to fire missiles on central Israel; former Palestinian interior minister calls on Fatah fighters to go on high alert ahead of possibility of escalation in fighting

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284779,00.html