It Ain’t Over
By RACHARD ITANI
What didn’t happen:
1- Israel did not win the war that it launched against Lebanon and Hezbollah;
2- The Lebanese did not fall into Israel’ s trap, and therefore did not turn against Hezbollah as a result of Israel’s massive bombardment of Lebanon’s infrastructure and mass killing of its civilian population;
3- Hezbollah did not lose the war that Israel launched against it and Lebanon, nor was its fighting capability daunted or significantly reduced by a full month of massive Israeli aerial bombardment; indeed, Hezbollah continued to launch missiles from within the very areas that Israel said it had occupied, cleaned-up, or mopped-up; did so from behind Israel’s advanced lines; attacked Israeli forces from behind; and forced Tsahal to beat a retreat from a town that the Israeli army had tried to occupy. [MORE]