Has Israel Finally Met Its Match?
The Meaning of Hizbullah's Big Win
By M. SHAHID ALAM
On January 31, 2008,
when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the
Second Lebanese War of July 2006, this was a first in Israeli
history: a report on why the Israeli military had failed in a
war.
The Winograd Commission
offers a quite honest appraisal of some aspects of the July 2006
War. [1] It acknowledges that it was "a serious missed
opportunity." Israel had "initiated a long war, which ended without
its clear military victory (italics added)." The Commission notes
that a militia "of a few thousand men resisted, for a few weeks,
the strongest army in the Middle East, which enjoyed full air
superiority and size and technology advantages." Nothing could
reverse Israel's handicaps: not even a massive ground offensive
launched in the last days of the war...
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